I am happy to announce a newer version of my Winaero Tweaker app. Version 0.2 is available for download, it includes several bugfixes and improvements. Let's see how it has evolved.
In version 0.2 I fixed the following bugs:
- The main window could literally disappear from the screen after you restarted the Tweaker. This was a bug related to saving/restoring the window position and size.
- In Windows 8 and 8.1, the Aero colors option did not save your preferences. This was because the "Save settings" button was accidentally made invisible.
- In Windows 8 and 8.1, the Sync Aero/Metro color option did not save your preferences. I forgot to implement it, sorry.
- The code for setting window border size was improved. Now it works faster and does not block the Taskbar and "busy" app windows when you change the border size.
The following options are new to Winaero Tweaker 0.2:
- XMouse Options. XMouse is a feature which allows the focus of windows to follow the mouse pointer, meaning, as you move the mouse pointer around, the window which is under the mouse pointer becomes the active window. Check it out under
Behavior -> XMouse Options:
- Bootloader Options. This is my Boot UI Tuner app now integrated into my Winaero Tweaker app. Here you can change all the hidden secret options related to the modern bootloader in Windows 8 and above. Check it out under Boot and Logon -> Boot Options:
- Opaque Taskbar for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. This option allows you to disable the taskbar transparency in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Again, this was possible with my standalone "Opaque Taskbar" app. However, in Winaero Tweaker I coded it almost from scratch, made the code better and faster. Now it is applied using a "WinaeroTweakerHelper" process which can also be used to get rid of the taskbar transparency at startup. The user interface is similar to Opaque Taskbar:
- Startup speed up for Windows 8/8.1. Here you can speed up the startup of desktop apps. See the details HERE to learn more about why Windows delays apps at startup. I just implemented the GUI for this tweak:
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That's good enough for today's release. I will continue to improve Winaero Tweaker and merge my cool apps to give you one amazing system tweaking app. Stay tuned.
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Very nice indeed. This is turning out to be the only really useful Tweaker out there.
Thanks
Thank you very much for solving all my W10 issues with this brilliant app Sergey – you have certainly made my entire week worthwhile with something to show for my efforts in this fantastic software package!
Well done, Sergey! Works very well for me. Enabled experimental login screen and should say I am not impressed. :D
Yeah, those new features are not impressive. Especially those icons.
Thanks for this update : Aero Colors and Sync working perfectly now !
Well, when completed, Windows Tweaker is going to be a real “blockbuster” … .. :)
Above all, compared to other similar “Swiss Knife” softwares, the user always sees here what is / will happen(ing) and is able to revert to the previous setting(s) without messing up the whole system.
To summarize : awfully good ! ;)
Thanks. I am trying my best.
Sergey, may I offer one useful little tweak for X-Mouse :-)
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
“MouseWheelRouting”=dword:00000003
this activation of mouse scroll in inactive windows.
Good. I will add it.
Thank you very much.:-)