TweakVista

Stardock is offering users a product named TweakVista which besides being easy to use also helps you fine tune Windows Vista and so with it you can customize Vista the way that suits you the best. The first thing that will grab your attention with regard to TweakVista is its excellent interface which is totally integrated to Vista. It also allows you to maneuver your way excellently and which can best is described as being intuitive and also ergonomic.

There is a Welcome screen that will allow you to experience Vistas in a smooth and comfortable manner. Basically, TweakVista is a control panel in which there are many links to many different control panels of which many are even buried in Vista’s own control panel. Thus, it lets you gain direct control of many system settings that include things such as startup applications and a number of other settings that are rather obscure of which an example may be things such gaining information about which processor sleep state you should enable.

However, there is a problem with TweakVista in that it is all about links that take you to different parts of TweakVista itself and do not really do anything by themselves. Thus, it suits the advanced user more than an average user who would really find all these linkages quite baffling and worse still, may actually end up causing some potential harm to the system. It would have been a major problem but for the fact that it is easy to recover if something does go bad.

Nevertheless, TweakVista does simplify Vista’s complicated interface by sorting all the different system options into a single design. To begin with, there are ten options available on the left navigation that includes Start Up and Resources and even Security and Power and finally, Miscellaneous Tweaks.

Every user of a Windows Vista platform will find the Power option to be quite handy and even if you want to simply make a few adjustments or you are eager to get to know Vistas better, TweakVista has enough in it for the newbie as too for the power users who want to go beyond simple tweaking and get stuck into Vista minus all of its associated headaches.

Beware however that sometimes you may not be able to get back to your normal setting which means that you would be forced to do system restore to return your system back to normal. On the whole, however, many users have found it to have an awesome GUI and there are also many useful maintenance tools all rolled into one that will please you. For about twenty dollars, it may be worth trying out, though you may want to test the waters by simply trying the free trial download, and spending your money only if satisfied.