User manual UNIBLUE SYSTEMTWEAKER 2010 V1

[. . . ] We recommend you choose the default location unless you have a specific reason not to. You will also be prompted to enter your serial number to activate your product. This can be found in the order details email that was sent to you shortly after purchasing the product. ThisnumbershouldstartwiththelettersSTandbeinthefollowingformat, whereXrepresentsacharacter: ST-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX 4 I SystemTweakerr 2010 Help Manual www. uniblue. com 2. Program overview This overview page will describe some features within the SystemTweaker interface. [. . . ] This section of the manual will explain the basic procedure of applying a tweak and then provide a basic description of the different tweaks available. 3. 1 Applying tweaks To apply a tweak, bring up the tweaks page by selecting Tweaks from the navigation panel. The left hand side menu will allow you to select from different tweak categories, classified according to the part of the operating system they affect. Tick or untick the box or boxes of the tweaks you would like to change. The Apply button on the bottom right will turn from grey to blue to indicate that there are changes to implement. Note:Sometweakswillonlybeimplementedafteryourestartyoursystem. Apop-upwillinformyouwhenever this is the case. 3. 2 Tweaks outlined This section provides a basic description of the tweaks you can apply through SystemTweaker. As some tweaks are only available for particular operating systems, each tweak will be listed together with the version of Windows it applies to. 3. 21 Start menu Start menu tweaks allow you to customize and streamline the Start menu to your taste. Show Start menu icon tweaks (XP, Vista, 7) These tweaks allow you to show or omit icons from the Start menu. You can choose to include only the most important icons to facilitate the selection process or, for example, choose to include icons that are not available by default. Enable Start menu scrolling (XP, Vista, 7) Without Start menu scrolling, if there are too many icons in the Start menu to display in a single column, Windows will use multiple columns. With Start menu scrolling, Windows keeps the single column format but adds scrolling functionality. 7 I SystemTweakerr 2010 Help Manual www. uniblue. com 3. 22 Control panel Like Start menu tweaks, Control panel tweaks provide the option to show or omit icons. Control panel icons can be hidden as a precaution to prevent system elements from being tampered with. 3. 23 Network Network tweaks control how your computer behaves when connected to a network. All network setting changes are implemented once the computer is restarted. Disable remote administration access to floppy drives (XP, Vista, 7) When remote administration to floppy drives is allowed, another user sharing your network can access any data you might have in your floppy drive. Disable remote administration access to CDROM drives (XP, Vista, 7) Like floppy drives, network access to CDROM drives can be disabled for elevated security. Load balance multiple network adapters (XP, Vista, 7) If more than one network card is available, this tweak balances the network load equally between multiple cards. Enable print server notification messages (XP, Vista, 7) When enabled, any server notifications will be displayed automatically as a taskbar popup. Broadcast new shared printer availability over the network (XP, Vista, 7) Windows is set to automatically search for shared printers connected to your network. If this function is switched off, shared printers will no longer be broadcast as available for use by other networked computers. Hide Network File Share passwords with asterisks (XP, Vista, 7) When enabled, passwords used to access shared files are displayed as asterisks. Disable printer sharing (XP) Disabling printer sharing ensures that no one on your network can make use of printers connected to your PC. Disable file sharing (XP) With file sharing disabled, other computers connected to your network cannot access any files you might have in a shared folder. [. . . ] Add Open Command Prompt option to Windows Explorer (XP, Vista, 7) This tweak adds to a right-click menu the option to open a command prompt set on the same directory where you right-clicked to open the menu. 9 I SystemTweakerr 2010 Help Manual www. uniblue. com 3. 27 Advanced Windows settings Automatically reboot Windows when a blue screen of death occurs (XP, Vista, 7) The blue screen of death is the error screen displayed when Windows encounters a critical system error that interrupts operation. In some cases, by default, Windows automatically restarts when a blue screen of death is encountered. Disabling automatic restarts through this tweak can help troubleshoot Windows problems and errors. Suppress PC speaker beep when system errors occur (XP, Vista, 7) When the system encounters an error, the PC speaker is programmed to beep to provide a warning. [. . . ]