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Tweak UI started as a control panel applet available for download on Microsoft's website, released shortly after the release of Windows 95.It was originally written by Raymond Chen and later included in Microsoft's PowerToys collection, a set of tools developed by Microsoft's Shell Development Team.
PowerToys for Windows 95 was the first version of Microsoft PowerToys and included 15 tools for power users. It included Tweak UI, a system utility for tweaking the more obscure settings in Windows. In most cases, Tweak UI exposed settings that were otherwise only accessible by directly modifying Windows Registry. [4]
Under Microsoft Windows, the redirection is often performed by Group Policy, [3] when used in an Active Directory environment. It can also be performed by manually editing the Windows Registry, changing library locations, [4] or with tools such as Tweak UI. Disk quotas can be used to limit the amount of space taken up by users' special folders.
On Microsoft Windows, an Xmouse Control Panel applet was available as part of the Windows 95 PowerToys, [5] used to configure focusing windows in the user interface by hovering. On newer Windows versions, the behavior can be configured using Tweak UI or directly from the Windows Registry.
The Windows API used in Microsoft Windows. Microsoft had the graphics functions integrated in the kernel until 2006 [1] The Haiku operating system uses an extended and modernised version of the Be API that was used by its predecessor BeOS. Haiku is expected to drop binary and source compatibility with BeOS at some future time, which will result ...
The Windows 95 Start menu. The Start menu first appeared in Windows 95.It was made to overcome the shortcomings of Program Manager in previous operating systems. [5] Program Manager consisted of a simple multiple document interface (MDI) which allowed users to open separate "program groups" and then execute the shortcuts to programs contained within.
Amongst these are Skip Metro Suite, [1] [2] which allows for skipping the Windows 8 Start screen, booting straight to the Windows desktop and customizing the Modern UI hot corners. Other tools include Ribbon Disabler, [ 3 ] which allows disabling the Explorer Ribbon interface and Personalization Panel [ 4 ] which replicates the full ...
User control over Windows Updates is removed (except in enterprise versions). In earlier versions, users could opt for updates to be installed automatically, or to be notified so they could update as and when they wished, or not to be notified; and they could choose which updates to install, using information about the updates.