TweakUI V2.10    Suggested by Chris Kite - Added on 13 Oct 2005 260KB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (401) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (5) - Post comment - Permalink

Posted comments:

 a: Useful tweaking tool, It's missing the "backup/restore settings prior to tweaking" option though [2008-04-08 11:50]

 other: actually, this program isn't portable anymore, if you're going to link to Microsoft's page.

They have a "setup"install now...which makes it very ANTI-portable...

Looking for a portable version now.... [2008-06-22 10:50]

 Technomancer: Well, i've been using TweakUI for a while now and i find it a great benefit, (as a Technomancer), to be able to 'Tweak' stuff on XP. Watch out though, it has a downside, the golden rule here is if you don't understand what it's doing then don't do it.
Brilliant program though. [2008-09-27 10:22]

 Patricio Candia: good job,

a excelent application. Now is portable still better

congratulation

get post the link to download please [2008-11-17 17:49]

 DianaC: Great idea! I'd always installed TweakUI so it's really neat to see that it works perfectly fine as a standalone which makes it portable. I followed instructions and it seems to work just fine now even though I uninstalled it.

Just wanted to pass along a VBS script I found for TweakUI a year or so ago. It puts a TweakUI entry into the Control Panel, making for handy access to the app. Here is the text that you can create in a text file just by giving it a .VBS extension. i.e., name it something like "TweakUI- ADDTweakUI 2ControlPanel.vbs". Here is script:

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'© Doug Knox - 2003
'Based on AddTweakUItoCP.reg from http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

On Error Resume Next

Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

SysDir = fso.GetSpecialFolder(1)
Tweak = SysDir & "\tweakui.exe"

If fso.FileExists(Tweak) Then

Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

p1 = "HKCR\CLSID\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}"

WshShell.RegWrite p1, "TweakUIXP"
WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "InfoTip", "Starts TweakUI for Windows XP"
WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "DefaultIcon","%SystemRoot%\\System32\\tweakui.exe,0", "REG_EXPAND_SZ"
WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "Shell\Open\Command","tweakui.exe"
WshShell.RegWrite p1 & "ShellFolder\Attributes",48,"REG_DWORD"

WshShell.RegWrite "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace\{D14ED2E1-C75B-443c-BD7C-FC03B2F08C17}", "Add Tweakui to Control Panel"

MsgBox "TweakUI has been added to your Control Panel.", vbokonly, "Finished!"

Else

MsgBox "TweakUI.EXE was not found in the " & SysDir & " folder. No changes were made.", vbokonly, "Problem!!"

End If

Set FSO = Nothing
Set WshShell = Nothing
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Even though I uninstalled it, this script was in same folder as TweakUI and it did add the control panel TweakUI entry. Don't know if it'll do the same to a system where it's not been installed. Perhaps a zipped up copy of the EXE could be hosted somewhere? Would MS have a hissy fit if we did that, I wonder??

Anyway, the only thing missing is to change the VBS code above to do the reverse ... to DELETE the control Panel TweakUI entry ... hmmmm. I wouldn't know how to do that but perhaps someone here does ...? [2009-05-29 18:49]

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