Ultimate Windows Tweaker Review

There was a time when work tweak meant Microsoft's Tweak UI. Those were the days of XP. Since then , things have changed. Tweak UI is no longer available and the things that needs tweaking have also changed a lot with windows 8 and windows 8.1.

Ultimate Windows Tweaker is designed for advanced users (but it is simple enough for ambitious novices as well), UWT gives you control over more than 150 Windows settings, all of them conveniently grouped into seven categories Personalization, User Accounts & UAC, System Performance, Security Settings, Network Tweaks, Internet Explorer and Additional Tweaks). This is a portable product and and comes bundled in a zip file - download and extract its contents, then double-click to run it. Since it doesn't require installation and leaves your Windows registry keys intact. So, you can run Ultimate Windows Tweaker directly from your hard drive or from on an external USB device.

Before making any changes, it is highly recommended you create a System restore point. You can create a system-restore point just by clicking a button in the UWT window-handy just in case a tweak goes awry. Or click Restore Defaults to set everything back the way it was.

There are two versions available. Version 2.2 is for windows 7 and Vista. Version 3.0 onwards is specifically for Windows 8 and windows 8.1. There are many useful tweaks. for example, You can make welcome screen tweaks (e.g. enable verbose status message) and change options in User Account Control (e.g. enable admin approval mode for the built-in administrator account). Another useful tweak is Restore folder for Windows at startup in the Personalization section. If you shut down your PC or reboot with folders still open, those folders will re-open when Windows restarts.

In addition, you can make many administrative restrictions on Windows 8/windows 7(e.g. disable Registry Editor ), Windows Explorer restrictions (e.g. disable hidden Folder viewing Options), Windows apps' restrictions (e.g. disable Windows Media Cent) or configure Windows Update settings (e.g. disable all Windows Updates)

Download Links

1. Ultimate Windows Tweaker for Windows 8/Windows 8.1 - Version 3.0.1.0

2. Ultimate Windows Tweaker for Windows 7/ WindowsVista - Version 2.2

Download Audacity: Audio Software for Windows, Mac and Linux

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Audacity can record and play sounds and import and export WAV, AIFF, MP3, and OGG files. Edit your sounds using cut, copy, and paste features (with unlimited undo functionality), mix tracks, or apply effects to your recordings. The Audacity program also has a built-in amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications. Built-in effects include bass boost, wah wah, and noise removal, and the program also supports VST plug-in effects. Version 1.2.6 enables FLAC support and contains some bug fixes. 

You can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
• Import and export WAV, AIFF, AU, and Ogg Vorbis files.
• Import MPEG audio (including MP2 and MP3 files) with libmad.
• Export MP3s with the optional LAME MP3 encoder library.
• Create WAV or AIFF files suitable for burning to CD.
• Import and export all file formats supported by libsndfile.
• Open raw (headerless) audio files using the “Import Raw” command. 

It supports all common editing operations, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply plug-in effects to any part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications.

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