Freeware Solutions: Tweak UI
What might be Microsoft's best free add-on to Windows is also its least well known: Introducing Tweak UI.
Linda Grubbs, PCWorld.com
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Installing Tweak UI
To begin, download Tweak UI from PC World Downloads. You can also get an older, all-OS-compatible Tweak UI installer from a Windows 98 CD-ROM (Tools\Reskit\Powertoy\Tweakui).
Once you've saved the tweakui133.exe archive where you can find it on your hard drive, double-click it to unzip it. The archive unzips the files that install Tweak UI (into the C:\Windows\Temp directory by default, though you can save them anywhere).
When the extraction finishes, navigate to the directory where the files unzipped, then right-click tweakui.inf and choose Install. As part of the briefer-than-usual installation process, you'll see the Tweak UI help file open. You can browse this file now or later, but the installation doesn't complete until you close this window.
To start using Tweak UI, click Start, Settings, Control Panel, then double click the Tweak UI icon. For a tool that purports to allow you to customize nearly every aspect of the user interface, Tweak UI's UI is no-nonsense. Settings are grouped by tabs named for the general area of the Windows UI that they modify: The Mouse tab, for instance, contains all the settings that modify mouse behavior.
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