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Tweaks

The features of this group are designed to increase the speed of loading, running, shutting down operating system and other software by changing the standard system settings. Also, these features help to increase security, convenience, and energy efficiency of system.

The full list of possible benefits from using tweaks:

A system reboot is required to apply some of the tweaks.

All features in this section can be returned to initial state by means of Red Button.

When you are opening the Features window, ticks on the Tweaks tab corresponds to current system settings.

In this section following features are accessible.

Automatically Close Applications at Shutdown

Disable Active Desktop

Disable Activity History (Timeline)
OS: 10
System Reboot: required
Risk Level: YELLOW

Disable Advertisements via Bluetooth
OS: 11/10
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable Advertising ID

Disable Animations in the Taskbar
OS: 11/10/8/Vista/XP
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable Animations in the Taskbar and Start Menu
OS: 7
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable App Launch Tracking
OS: 10
Risk Level: YELLOW

Disable Automatic Search for Shared Network Folders and Printers

Disable AutoRun of CD/DVD

Disable AutoRun of Windows Messenger

Disable Backup of Text Messages into the Cloud
OS: 11/10
Risk Level: YELLOW

Disable Balloon Tips

Disable Biometrical Features
OS: 11/10
Risk Level: YELLOW

Disable Camera in Logon Screen
OS: 11/10/8
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service
OS: 11/10/8
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable Core Isolation Memory Integrity

Disable Creation of Last Known Good Configuration

Disable CTFMON

Disable Desktop Cleanup Wizard

Disable Diagnostic Policy Service
OS: 11/10/8
Risk Level: YELLOW

Disable Distributed Link Tracking Client Service
OS: 11/10/8
Risk Level: RED

Disable Dr. Watson

Disable Error Reporting

Disable Fast User Switching Compatibility Service

Disable File Association Web Service

Disable Firewall

Disable Game Bar Tips
OS: 10
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable Inventory Collector

Disable Low Disk Checking

Disable Menu Show Delay

Disable Messenger Service

Disable Microsoft's Settings Experiments

Disable Mouse Hover Popup Delay
OS: 11/10/8/7/Vista
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable NTFS File Compression
OS: 11/10/8/7/Vista
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable NTFS Last Access Time

Disable NTFS Short Name Creation

Disable OneDrive
OS: 11/10
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable the POSIX Subsystem

Disable Print Spooler Service

Disable Program Compatibility Assistant
OS: 11/10/8/7/Vista
Risk Level: YELLOW

Disable Recent Document History
Recent Document History contains links to files you’re opened for quick access to recently opened files.
OS: Vista/XP
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable Recent Shares in Network Places
Disables visited network shares being added to Network Places.
OS: XP
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable Remote Registry Service
Remote Registry Service allows remote users to change register parametres on your computer.
OS: Vista/XP
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable Search Assistant
Disable animated search companion.
OS: XP
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable Search Indexer
Indexing the contents and properties of files designed to increase the speed of finding files on the disk or text within a file using the standard Windows search program.
In Windows Vista, when you turn off the indexing of files Windows Explorer will not display virtual folders elements.
If you use the search function a little, turn off it to improve system performance.
OS: 11/10/8/7/Vista/XP
Risk Level: YELLOW

Disable Secondary Logon Service

Disable Sharing of Handwriting Data

Disable Sharing of Handwriting Error Reports

Disable SSDP Discovery Service

Disable Start Menu Suggestions
OS: 11/10
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable Suggested Content in the Settings App
OS: 11/10
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable System Restore
System Restore monitors changes to your system allowing you to roll-back to previous configurations.
OS: XP
Risk Level: RED

Disable Tablet PC Input Service

Disable Task Scheduler

Disable Thumbnail Caching

Disable Thumbnails
OS: 11/10/8/7/Vista
Risk Level: YELLOW

Disable Timeline Suggestions
OS: 11/10
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable Time Synchronization

Disable Tips
OS: 10
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable Universal Plug and Play Device Host Service

Disable User Account Control

Disable Visual Effects
Disables: combobox animation, mouse/cursor shadow, listbox animation, menu animation, menu fading, menu selection fading, mouse hot tracking effects, tooltip animation, tooltip fading, gradient taskbar captions, menu shadows, windows animation, other common control animation.
OS: 11/10/8/7/Vista/XP
Risk Level: GREEN

Disable Windows Defender
OS: 10/8/7/Vista
Risk Level: YELLOW

Disable WMI
WMI is intended for collection of every possible reports on the fulfilled operations and about the occurred errors.
OS: XP
Risk Level: YELLOW

Disable Windows Media Player Automatic Codec Downloads

Disable Windows Media Player Automatic Updates

Disable Windows Media Player CD and DVD Media Information Retrieval

Disable Windows Media Player DRM for Imported Music

Disable Windows Media DRM Internet Access

Disable Windows Media Player Music File Media Information Retrieval

Disable Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service

Disable Windows Media Player Recent Files List

Disable Windows Security Center

Disable Windows Startup Delay
OS: 11/10
Risk Level: YELLOW

Disable Windows Updates

Disable Wireless Zero Configuration Service

Disable "Let's finish setting up your device"
OS: 11/10
Risk Level: GREEN

Enable Game Mode

Enable High Performance Power Plan
OS: 11/10/8/7/Vista
Risk Level: GREEN

Enable Optimizations for Windowed Games

Enable Verbose Startup/Shutdown Messages

Increase NTFS MFT Reserved Zone

Optimize Hard Drive When Idle

Speed Up Closing Running Applications at Shutdown

Speed Up Closing Running Services at Shutdown

Speed Up Closing Unresponsive Applications

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