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User control over Windows Updates is removed (except in enterprise versions). In earlier versions, users could opt for updates to be installed automatically, or to be notified so they could update as and when they wished, or not to be notified; and they could choose which updates to install, using information about the updates.
The Windows 95 CD-ROM included an Emergency Recovery Utility (ERU.exe) and a Configuration Backup Tool (Cfgback.exe) to back up and restore the registry. Additionally Windows 95 backs up the registry to the files system.da0 and user.da0 on every successful boot. Windows NT 4.0 included RDISK.EXE, a utility to back up and restore the entire ...
Amongst these are Skip Metro Suite, [1] [2] which allows for skipping the Windows 8 Start screen, booting straight to the Windows desktop and customizing the Modern UI hot corners. Other tools include Ribbon Disabler, [ 3 ] which allows disabling the Explorer Ribbon interface and Personalization Panel [ 4 ] which replicates the full ...
Tweak UI started as a control panel applet available for download on Microsoft's website, released shortly after the release of Windows 95.It was originally written by Raymond Chen and later included in Microsoft's PowerToys collection, a set of tools developed by Microsoft's Shell Development Team.
As it says, programs put their initialization information into the registry instead of .ini files. But now, under Windows 10 in User mode, old programs cannot even read the registry. Some info here on how the registry is used and interacts with UAC in Windows 10 would be most welcome.69.74.253.62 13:50, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
AVG TuneUp, previously called AVG PC Tuneup, and TuneUp Utilities, is a utility software suite for Microsoft Windows designed to help manage, maintain, optimize, configure, and troubleshoot a computer system. It was produced and developed by TuneUp Software GmbH.
A registry cleaner is a class of utility software designed for the Microsoft Windows operating system, whose purpose is to remove redundant items from the Windows Registry. Registry cleaners seem to no longer be supported by Microsoft, despite originally having made and distributed their own registry cleaner under the name of RegClean.
Classic Shell is a computer program for Microsoft Windows that provides user interface elements intended to restore familiar features from past versions of Windows. [4] It focuses on the Start menu, File Explorer and Internet Explorer — three major components of the Windows shell although it also does some minor tweaks for the Windows Taskbar.