AeroTweak is freeware application for Windows 7 and Vista that allows you to easily change about 50 system settings and tweak Windows. The settings includes those that affects the user interface, system performance and system security. It is a standalone portable utility and does not need any installation as such.

AeroTweak also lets you recover your Windows 7 or Windows Vista product key. You can also view general system information. It lets you create System Restore point using only a click of a button before you make changes to your system, so that you can later revert back to old settings if you face a problem.

Many Windows XP users probably know about Microsoft TweakUI. It is a Windows XP system tweaker by Microsoft. For some reason Microsoft never released any utility similar to TweakUI for Windows 7 and Vista. According to the developer of AeroTweak, they created AeroTweak to fill up the void created by the non-existence of proper free tweaking utilities for Windows Vista and above.

AeroTweak interface supports only Russian and English languages. It is fully portable and consists of only one file “AeroTweak.exe” which is around 1 MB in size, thus you can carry it around in your USB flash drive.

[box type="download"]Download AeroTweak[/box]

Windows service is a program or a process that runs in the background and provides support to other programs. Advanced users sometimes customize how the services run on their Windows and disables optional services or services which they don’t need to speed-up Windows. If you are novice user, and don’t want to mess around with Windows service settings, here is a smart tool to fine tune services in Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP.

SMART (Service Management and RealEasy Tweaking) is a small portable utility, developed by The Windows Club and is based on the suggested configurations of BlackVipers, to customize your Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP service settings, according to your requirements. With SMART utility, you can Start, Stop or Disable services quickly. When you click on any service, SMART utility will show you detailed information about the service along with location of the service.

Note: As with any one-click fix program, it’s a good idea to create a system restore point before making any changes. The developer’s have taken care about this and have provided a button “Create a Restore Point” in the program. Pretty neat!

To change the start-up type of any service, right-click on the service and then select Automatic, Manual or Disabled type. Double-click on a service to start or stop it. And if you are new to Windows Services, you can use the Safe settings, Tweaked settings, Advanced settings and Default settings presets to change the service settings quickly. SMART is a standalone tool that requires no installation, just download it and run.

[ Download SMART ]

WinUtilities Pro is an award-winning collection of tools to optimize and speed-up your system performance. this suite has utilities to clean registry, temporary files on your disks, erase your application and internet browser history, cache and cookies. it also supports to defragment your disk drives and improve computer performance and stability. built-in StartUp Cleaner allows you to control startup programs that load automatically with windows, find duplicate files, fix broken shortcuts and uninstall unneeded software. other features include secure file deletion, recycle bin shredding, system maintenance tasks scheduling and undelete deleted files.

The developers of WinUtilities Pro, YL Computing, Inc, is running a giveaway exclusively for Softpedia readers. This means that you can get a free full version, genuine license code of WinUtilities Pro v 9.41, which is valid for lifetime and which normally retails at $49.99.

Features:

• Disk Defrag - Defragment your disks and improve computer performance and stability
• File Undelete – Recovers deleted files on NTFS and FAT volumes.
• Disk Cleaner – Cleans disks from information that clogs your system and reduces performance of your computer.
• Registry Cleaner – Scans the Windows registry and finds incorrect or obsolete information in the Windows Registry.
• Startup Cleaner - Helps you to easily manage program execution at windows startup.
• History Cleaner – Erases all traces of activity on your computer, save spaces and protect your privacy.
• File Splitter - Splits any type of file into smaller pieces and rejoin them to the original file.
• File Shredder - Erases files and make sure that no data thief can get his hands on your sensitive data.
• EXE Protector - Protects any Windows executable file with a secure password.
• Memory Optimizer - Optimizes the Memory Management of Windows. No special configuration is needed, Memory Optimizer will auto configure itself.
• Duplicate Files Finder – Helps you to free disk space by finding and removing duplicate files from your system.
• Shortcuts Fixer - Provides you with an easy way to address the invalid shortcuts and reports back to you so that you can remove it from your system.
• Process Manager - Allows you to check your system’s performance and manage the running processes.
• Uninstall Manager - Manages the programs installed on your system and uninstall unneeded software.
• System Information – Shows you the detailed information for your computer hardware and software.
• Registry Backup & Restore - Back up and restore the Windows Registry.
• Registry Search - Searches the Windows Registry by a specific wildcard.
• BHO Remover - Manages the BHOs that are currently installed.
• Auto Shutdown - Schedules your computer for log off, stand by, hibernate, or shutdown at a specific time.
• Windows Tools - Provides you an easy way to launch the utilities build in Windows.
• System Control - Organizes and manage your Windows Settings
• Task Scheduler - Configures the cleaning tasks that take place automatically.

Supported Platform: Windows 7, Vista, 95, NT4, 98, Me, 2000, XP, 2003 Server

How to get WinUtilities Pro for FREE?

To grab the free license, visit the promotion page here.. You will find the free download link along with the following registration information:

regname: Softpedia User
regcode: C1H0L9-20CC-321B-36F7-4117-W6Y1L3

Just download the setup and install it. After you finish the setup, enter the registration information to activate the full version.

Do you like the new Windows 7 Taskbar? Do you want to have more control over its functionality and fine tune the settings-like middle-click to close or focus a window and other behavior? Here’s a small portable utility, 7 Taskbar Tweaker, that does the job.

7 Taskbar Tweaker lets you toggle up to six different features:

• Show standard window menu on right-click instead of jumplist
• Close or focus a window on middle click instead of running a new instance
• Disable grouping of windows by file path or application id
• Cycle through windows of a grouped button on left click instead of showing a thumbnail preview
• Open with while dropping a file on a taskbar button instead of pinning
• Disable thumbnail previews

7 Taskbar Tweaker is freeware, portable and light program for Windows 7 only.

Simply download and extract the .RAR file to run the .EXE (executable) file of 7 Taskbar Tweaker.

Download it using following link (according to your Windows 7 edition):

Download (for 32-bit) | Download (for 64-bit) | Homepage

Do you ever get tired of searching for a particular setting inside the control panel or searching for that hidden application in Windows XP? Inside Windows XP there are hundreds of settings that require endless clicking through the Operating System that can get really frustrating. Windows in a box was designed to eliminate all that. It sits on your desktop, its easy to navigate, and it puts an end to all the frustration of endless searching for settings and hidden features or applications.

It is a very small application of a download size of 157 KB but it comes quite handy. As you can see the list of shortcuts available in the screenshot:

More screenshots are available at the homepage. You may download Windows in a box from here.