April 25th, 2012· Service release covering several issues and improvements
· Updated help file
March 12th, 2012· Major service release addressing a couple of issues related to the Tweak-7 system service and the main application
· Several changes to the installtion script
· Fixing a few rare issues in the system service
· Modified operating system detection method to address some rare incorrect detections
February 23rd, 2012· Service release including a lot of optimizations of the auto-optimizer
· Fixing some rare issues that caused the system service not to start up
February 1st, 2012· Service release fixin a critical issue that caused the main application to crash during system start up
· Fixing several rare issues during setup
· Multiple improvements and optimizations
January 9th, 2012· Service release fixing a critical issue related to the main application's start up that caused a freeze under certian circumstances
· Updates of several system performance related tweaks
· Updated system service
· Code optimizations and performance improvements
November 10th, 2011· Several changes to the setup related to a wrong OS detection
· Multiple improvements of the main tweaking engine
· Code optimizations and other improvements
October 15th, 2011· Service release covering a few issues related to the Tweak-7 system service startup
· Several changes to the main engine related to potential system service issues
October 15th, 2011· Updated main engine fixing a few rare issues related to some of the recent Windows 7 system updates
· Updated setup engine fixing several setup related issues
· Several changes to the main application improving the startup speed
October 15th, 2011· Updated and improved Tweak-7 system service for better performance
· Several changes to optimize the startup of Tweak-7 and the communication between the main app and the system service
May 8th, 2011· Some changes of the main application's code in relation to some memory issues
· Several changes to the tweaking engine realted to the above memory issue fix
· Lots of internal changes and improvements
April 21st, 2011· Fixing a few user interface language file issues
· Several minor bug fixes
April 5th, 2011· Service pack including several changes and fixes of minor issues discovered on SP1
March 2nd, 2011· Tested and compiled against Windows 7 SP1
February 8th, 2011· Fixing a few issues in the Tweak-7 system service that caused several tweaks not to be activated properly
· Several changes in the main application related to the above system service issue
· Several changes to the user interface language files
January 15th, 2011· Heaps of optimizations and improvements to the tweaking engine - better performance and stability
· Lots of changes to the setup
December 15th, 2010· Service release incuding several fixes and optimizations
· Multiple changes to the Tweak-7 system Service
· Improved system cleanup feature
· Improved system auto optimization
November 10th, 2010· Several changes to the Tweak-7 system Service
· Multiple optimizations to the registry cleaner
· Heaps of changes to the auto-optimizer
· Lots of improvements to the system cleanup feature
September 21st, 2010· Service release fixing a few pretty rare issues
· Updated tweaking engine
· Several changes related to problems caused by insufficient permissions
July 21st, 2010· A few changes to the Tweak-7 system service related to some very rare issues
· Several improvements in the start up section of Tweak-7
· Lots of internal improvements
June 23rd, 2010· Fixing a problem that caused a crash of Tweak-7 under certain system specific conditions in the registry cleaner module
· Lots of improvements to the internet connection optimization feature
· Additional improvements in the main application related to build 1040
May 24th, 2010· Fixing an issue in the system and CPU cache feature related to the available system memory calculation
· Several minor UI fixes related to DPI settings larger than 96DPI
· Several additional fixes and internal changes related to some rare errors
· Some corrections to the English language file
May 8th, 2010· Service release including several minor changes and fixes
· Multiple improvements in the main application
· Updated auto optimizer and registry cleaner
April 17th, 2010· Several internal changes to the desktop manager tweaks section
· Some changes related to a very rare issue caused by a .net framework error
March 27th, 2010· Fixing a setup bug that caused Tweak-7 not to start on 64bit systems
March 26th, 2010· Adding several new error handlers for some very rare issues
March 20th, 2010· Service release fixing a few issues
· Several optimizations to the internet connection optimizer
February 25th, 2010· Several minor issues fixed
· Lots of internal optimizations, speedups and improvements
· Some changes to the Tweak-7 system service to improve the overall performance
January 12th, 2010· Fixing a few issues caused by .net framework misconfigurations
· Several improvements and optimizations
· Updated language files
December 18th, 2009· Fixing a bug in the Tweak-7 system service that caused some specific registry tweaks not to activate properly
· Fixing a few other minor issues
· Imporved error handling for some very rare issues caused by a misconfigured .net framework installation*END*
· Updated Russian language file
December 1st, 2009· Several improvements of the error handler catching issues related to misconfigured system fonts
· Lots of other technical changes and improvements
· Better start up performance
· Spanish language file added
November 22nd, 2009· Fixing a serious issue related to an invalid digital signature
· Some minor changes to the main application
· A few speed and performance improvements
November 20th, 2009· Service release covering a few minor changes, fixes and improvements
· Updated setup engine
October 7th, 2009· Multiple improvements and minor fixes
September 29th, 2009· Several minor bug fixes and improvements
September 18th, 2009· Some additional error handlers for some very rare issues caused by missing system fonts
· Multiple optimizations and minor fixes in multiple components
· A few other changes and optimizations
September 3rd, 2009· Several performace related optimizations
· Updated German language file
September 1st, 2009· Multiple fixes related to missing localizations
· Several changes, fixes and improvements in multiple features
· Updated English, German, French and Russian language files
August 12th, 2009· Fixing some minor issues in the main application
· Several changes to the setup program, some related to an accidential false positive detection of Trend Micro products
· The setup executable file version information does not reflect the Tweak-7 version installed by the setup
August 11th, 2009· 64bit systems only: fixing an issue in the 'Fading taskbar' feature that caused the whole feature to stop working under certain circumstances
August 10th, 2009· Fixing an issue in the 'Fading taskbar' feature that caused the whole feature to stop working under certain circumstances
August 8th, 2009· French language file updated
· A few changes related to the new French language file
· Some error handlers added for issues that occur if no internet browser seems to be installed on the target system
· Some changes to the setup application to fix some rare issues (registered edition only) caused by firewalls
· Some changes to the setup application to allow installations on systems with a screen resolution height below 680 pixels
· Lots of code optimization and improvements
· Updated language files for English, German and Russian
August 4th, 2009· Fixing some very rare issues in the time sync feature
· Fixing several other minor issues in a few feature sections
· German language file added
· Added an icon file type association repair feature to the 'Explorer tweaks' feature
· Updated English and Russian language files
· Successfully tested in detail on the final Windows 7 RTM build
July 16th, 2009· Fixing a few minor issues
· Updated Russian language file
July 12th, 2009· Fixing a few very rare issues in the 'Registry CleanUp' and the 'System CleanUp' feature that crashed Tweak-7 if some important system registry keys and system folders were not existing
· A few changes to the demo edition of Tweak-7 (all those changes do not apply to the registered edition)
· Some minor changes to the setup
July 6th, 2009Changes and fixes compared to the final RC2 (Build 581):
· Added a context menu to the 'System Folders' feature folder list
· Lots of code cleanup, removing debugging code and other code from the beta versions that is no longer needed
· Improved CPU and cache tweaks section
· Improved UI rendering when switching from one feature to another
· Updated help file, updated Russian and English language files
· Several behavior changes related to the auto start of Tweak-7
· Several changes to some error handlers catching some very rare issues caused by corrupted memory
· Some changes to the 'Registry CleanUp' feature related to the system status report if no items were cleaned up
· Several minor changes to the user interface
· Fixing a well hidden issue that crashed Tweak-7 if the 'Restrict Access to folders' feature was left to the 'Home' screen
· Fixing an issue where the 'Registry Defrag' was not working if the 'Estimate Fragmentation' button was not clicked before defragmentation
· Fixing a crash that occurred under some very specific circumstances while browsing the feature sections
· Fixing an issue with the language file selection
· Fixing a few minor issues in several features
· Fixing some pop-up message display issues that caused pop-up messages to be too small in height
· Fixing some minor UI issues
· Successfully tested on Windows 7 Build 7264
June 29th, 2009· A few changes to some error handlers catching issues caused by corrupted memory - in most of all cases such error only occur when Tweak-7 was executed on a virtual machine right after installation
· Fixing an access violation issue in the 'Registry CleanUp' feature
· Several other (minor) changes and fixes
June 26th, 2009· Fixing a minor issue in a file size calculation function where a wrong file size abbreviation was loaded from the current language file
· Fixing some localization issues
· Lots of code cleanup and optimization
· Some changes to the setup application
June 24th, 2009· Fixing a rare issue that occurred in the 'Registry Defrag' feature if the 'Arial' font was missing on the target system
· Added some additional error handlers catching issues caused by corrupted memory
· Several changes in the 'Auto Shutdown' feature related to some behavior and functionality changes
· Improved 'Registry CleanUp'
· Several changes to the setup application
· Start Tweak-7' option removed from the setup: Tweak-7 was executed with elevated rights if started by the setup.
· Successfully tested on several Windows 7 71xx builds and pre RTM 72xx builds
June 23rd, 2009· Fixing an issue in the 'Autostart Manager' where under certain circumstances activating a deactivated startmenu autostart accidentally duplicated the autostart
· Fixing an issue in the 'Autostart Manager' where the list of autostarts automatically changed its size when the mouse was moved over the 'Activate / Deactivate' icon
· Fixing some screen flickering in the 'Registry Cleanup' feature that appeared during cleanup
· Fixing a rare string-to-date conversion issue that occurred on some systems under very specific circumstances
· Some changes to the Tweak-7 system service in relation to file delete actions which failed on files that were marked as 'read only'
· Improved registry cleanup procedure, which was a bit slow in previous builds due to the new progress bar displayed during cleanup
· Updated Russian language file
June 22nd, 2009· Fixing an issue on the 'Home' screen that caused not the right feature to open up when one of the 'System Status' links was clicked
· Fixing an integer conversion bug in the 'Cache tweaks' section
· Some changes to the setup application
June 22nd, 2009· Added a system tray popup alert to inform the user about the system optimization status
· Added a progress box to the Registry Defragmentation feature which displays the defragmentation progress
· Added some error handlers catching very rare issues related to corrupted memory and faulty video drivers
· Several minor changes to the main user interface to better display the user in which section he currently navigates
· Smoother section transitions
· Updated language files
June 18th, 2009· Improved rendering and loading time of the feature sections
· Lots of internal improvements and code optimizations for a better and faster UI rendering
· Improved memory management - Tweak-7 only requires 0.5MB to 3MB RAM while running once initial loading and feature loading has completed
· A few additional fixes related to non localizable user interface elements
· Fixing a minor issue in the Registry Cleanup feature where some scan results were not listed as they should
June 16th, 2009· Fixing an issue that caused the 'Taskbar Tweaks' feature to shortly appear in the main window on startup if the 'Fade Taskbar' feature was active
· Fixing an issue where upstream and downstream statistics were mixed up in the 'System Information' feature
· Fixing a bug in the 'Outlook tweaks' section hat caused an application crash if all file extensions were unblocked and saved
· Added a 'Take ownership' tweak to the 'Explorer Tweaks' section
· A few changes to the 'Explorer Tweaks' section to get more room for additional tweaks
· Some minor user interface changes
· Some changes to the setup application
· Updated Russian language file
June 15th, 2009· Fixing a bug in the setup application that caused program settings not to migrate properly under certain circumstances from one build to a newer build
· Fixing a few additional user interface issues
· Fixing a bug where the transparent taskbar feature was no re-activating itself when Tweak-7 was restarted
· Updated error handler for some errors that are caused by the .net framework if it is not installed properly, misconfigured, or outdated
· A few changes to the setup application
· Updates Russian language file
June 13th, 2009· Several minor fixes in a code section that counts registry values
· Some additional (invisible) user interface changes (see changes in build 562)
· Internal code improvements and optimizations in the registry cleaner feature
· Updated Russian language file
· Adding a few additional pre-configured menu items to the 'Desktop Context Menu Customization' feature
· Adding an option to the Registry CleanUp feature to scan for dead application compatibility settings
June 12th, 2009· Fixing a minor issue in the startmenu tweaks section that caused the 'Download' startmenu item not to display as selected
· Lots of minor (invisible) user interface changes that were required to make user interface translations work properly under certain circumstances
· Several changes to the setup - updated setup engine
· Russian language file added
June 10th, 2009· Added a tweak to the 'Explorer Tweaks' section to add a 'Folder Options' item to the folder context menu
· Fixing an issue that caused the new 'Desktop Context Menu Customization' feature not to load localization strings from language files
· Fixing an issue that caused the 'Hide control panel applets' feature not to activate properly
· Improved error handling for some pretty rare issues caused by missing .net framework files
· Improved error handling for some issues caused by insufficient user privileges
June 9th, 2009· Added a new feature to the 'Visual Tweaks' section: 'Desktop Context Menu Customization'
· Fixing an issue in the setup where the 'Desktop shutdown' shurtcuts were always created, even if that option was not selected during setup
· Several minor fixes in a couple of features (Autostart Manager, System Information, Shortcut Cleaner, Main Application)
June 8th, 2009· A few changes to the setup and the way Tweak-7 desktop icons are created
· Several changes in the 'System Folder' feature
· 'System folder' feature: if a system folder was set to a network path, or to a currently non accessible path, no path was displayed: fixed
· Added an error handler that catches an exception that occurred when another instance of Tweak-7 was executed while the first instance was busy
June 6th, 2009· Added a system tray icon context menu item to open Tweak-7 as lots of people missed that although clicking the system tray icon also opened Tweak-7
· Added a function to check if WMI is running on the target system as Tweak-7 requires WMI
· A few changes in relation to a problem that appeared when the 'Single Instance' mode of Tweak-7 was activated. We still expect this not to work properly under certain circumstances and ask testers to submit every crash that might appear when Tweak-7 is closed or restored from the system tray.
· Fixing a minor issue that caused some 'Ghost' problems to be found in the 'Registry CleanUp' FileType Scan
· Several minor changes, fixes, and improvements
June 4th, 2009· Fixing a minor display issue of the 'System Status' box which remained in front of all other items if the 'Check for update' link was clicked
· Fixing an issue that caused list views in several sections to re-populate themselves if the Tweak-7 window was restored from the system tray
· Two minor bug fixes in the 'System CleanUp' and 'Registry CleanUp' features
June 3rd, 2009· The 'Create system state shortcuts' in the 'Desktop tweaks' feature was not working if shortcuts should be created for 'All users'
· Several changes in the 'File Wiper' feature which increases the speed of file wiping through a random executions option
· Some improvements in the 'Registry Defrag' feature
· Added a tweak to the 'Desktop tweaks' section allowing it to remove the 'Shortcut' text when creating shortcuts
June 2nd, 2009· Once again some improvements of the System CleanUp feature; now scanning for some additional unneeded files
· Fixing a bug that caused Tweak-7 not to save application settings properly
· A few changes to the setup
June 2nd, 2009· Tweak-7 needed some time to unload completely if closed - this has been fixed
· Fixing an issue caused by special date separator characters
· Fixing an issue that caused some drop down list box items to duplicate themselves in the 'Auto Shutdown' feature
· The 'System Cleanup' feature now also scans for Windows Defender Logfiles and several additional unneeded file types
· A few improvements and optimizations
June 1st, 2009· Fixing a date conversion issue on startup which appeared on systems with a specific (non western) system calendar setting
· Several minor changes and improvements
May 31st, 2009· Several minor fixes in multiple features
· Lots of improvements
May 29th, 2009· Fixing a minor issue that caused the drive status not to refresh properly in the 'System CleanUp' feature
· Improved System CleanUp and Registry CleanUp features
· Some changes to the setup
May 28th, 2009· Some improvements in the 'Registry CleanUp' feature
· Some improvements in the CD/DVD tweaks section
· Several other (minor) improvements in multiple sections
· Fixing an issue in the CD/DVD tweaks section where the cache tweak deactivated the CD / DVD tweaks
May 27th, 2009· Fixing an issue that caused some user interface items not to display properly
· Some minor changes
May 27th, 2009· Fixing a bug in the System CleanUp feature which occurred while Firefox was open during cleanup
· Fixing a minor issue in the 'Shortcut overlay icon' feature where the current icon was not displayed properly
· Fixing an issue in the 'System CleanUp' feature where the drive statistics were not refreshed after a cleanup
· Fixing an issue in the 'Autostart Manager' where .lnk shortcust where not detected as autostarts
· Some minor improvements in the 'Autostart Manager' feature
· Some minor improvements in the 'System CleanUp' feature
· A few changes to the setup
· Several other improvements
May 26th, 2009· Heaps of code optimizations and improvements
· Improved internet connection optimization
· A few minor bug fixes in the 'Shortcut Cleaner', 'Registry Cleaner' and the main module
May 25th, 2009· Fixing a few issues in the RAM Disk Drive feature
· The Tweak-7 Control Panel applet was incorrectly displayed as a 32bit applet on 64bit machines - this has been fixed
· The 'Hide disk drives' feature was not working - this has been fixed
· Fixing several unlogical behavior issues in the CD cache feature
· Several improvements to the RAM Disk feature (32bit systems only)
· On 64bit systems, 32bit MS Office products were not properly detected. This has been fixed in the System Information section, and the Outlook tweaks section
· Improved System CleanUp feature - the feature now searches for even more unneeded files
· The Tweak-7 setup will now migrate application settings to any future version of Tweak-7 that will be installed. However - this will work up from the next build as this build includes the migration code that all future builds depend on.
May 25th, 2009· Fixing some issues in a date-time conversion routine in the 'Auto shutdown' feature
· Fixing an issue in the System Cleanup feature where the IE cache was not cleaned if the cache path was not at the default location
· Fixing a critical issue in the Registry Cleanup feature which accidentally listed valid 32bit application registry keys as invalid on 64bit machines
· Fixing an issue that caused the 'Details' view in the System Cleanup results not to show up
· Improved registry cleanup
May 22nd, 2009· Fixing some issues in a date-time conversion routine in the 'Auto shutdown' feature
· Fixing an issue in the System Cleanup feature where the IE cache was not cleaned if the cache path was not at the default location
· Fixing a critical issue in the Registry Cleanup feature which accidentally listed valid 32bit application registry keys as invalid on 64bit machines
· Fixing an issue that caused the 'Details' view in the System Cleanup results not to show up
· Improved registry cleanup
May 21st, 2009· Fixing a few minor issues
· Several internal code optimizations and improvements
May 20th, 2009· Fixing an issue in the 'CPU Tweaks' section where the snapshot feature was not saving all settings
· Fixing an issue where pre- and superfetch settings were not displayed properly
· Fixing an issue in the 'Autostart manager' section where a few settings were not read properly from the system's registry
· Fixing a few other minor issues
· System Cleanup now also supports Opera cache files
May 20th, 2009· Fixing a few more glitches in the UI
· Fixing an issue on startup related to some rare system calendar formats
· Fixing several other minor issues
· Changes to the 'Snapshot Manager' screen
May 20th, 2009· Fixing a bug in the 'Cache Tweaks' section that caused Tweak-7 not to read the current settings from the system properly
· Fixing several minor issues
· Added a backup and restore feature to the Registry CleanUp section
· Added an error handler for issues related to problems caused by communication trouble between Tweak-7 components
May 18th, 2009· Fixing another rare display problem that occurred when the main window was restored from minimized
· A few changes the the Registry Cleaner and the way it detects ActiveX errors
· Fixing the Memory optimizer, which was broken due to internal code changes
· Several minor changes and fixes
May 16th, 2009· Fixing a few issues in the 'Snapsshot' feature that made it impossible to import snapshots
· Fixing a problem related to a different system calendar format
· Fixing a GUI issue that prevented the feature sections to load properly if the Tweak-7 window was minimized and re-opened
· Fixing an issue in the 'Autostart Manager' feature that did not allow it to delete 'Dead Autostarts'
· Fixing a crash that occurred when opening the 'About' box
May 16th, 2009· Fixing an issue in the setup which caused some system files not to install properly under certain circumstances
· Fixing several minor issues
May 16th, 2009· Several changes and minor fixes in the FileWiper feature
· Several changes and fixes in the System CleanUp feature
· Fixing an issue in the Registry Defrag feature that caused a crash when the Defragment button was clicked
· Fixing a GUI issue that mixed up the user interface when the main window was restored from the system tray
· Several changes to the Startmenu tweaks feature
· Some design changes
May 16th, 2009· Fixing a crash that occurred in the 'Windows Error Reporting' tweaks section if the Windows Error Reporting service was not existing on the target machine
· Fixing a crash in the System Information panel that occurred when a Product CD Key was selected and copied to the clipboard
· Fixing a crash in the 'System Restore Manager' on creating a new restore point without entering a name for the RP
· Various minor fixes in several feature sections
· Several improvements of the System Restore Point Manager section and the related service actions
· Improved setup showing a status dialog on the final installation state
May 16th, 2009· Fixing an issue where the Flip3D shortcut was not created for all users in the Desktop manager Tweaks section
· Fixing an issue where the 'System Status' box was remaining on top of feature screens
· Fixing a buffer overflow on startup
· Fixing several other minor issues
· Several changes to the Tweak-7 system service related to file and directory delete actions
May 16th, 2009· Fixing some unlogical behaviors related to the password protection feature of Tweak-7
· Several minor changes and fixes
May 16th, 2009· Fixing several exceptions that occurred in relation to missing files and directories
· Fixing an incorrect date format conversion on start up
· Fixing a delay during setup that caused the setup to freeze for a couple of seconds
· Multiple changes and improvements
May 16th, 2009· Fixing several exceptions that occurred in relation to missing files and directories
· Fixing an incorrect date format conversion on start up
· Fixing a delay during setup that caused the setup to freeze for a couple of seconds
· Multiple changes and improvements
May 16th, 2009· Multiple fixes in several sections
May 16th, 2009· Multiple fixes in several sections
May 16th, 2009· If the Tweak-7 system service is not running, and cannot be started by Tweak-7, the application now displays a warning and terminates, instead of crashing
· Several changes related to the handling of http and mailto calls - if no application was associated with http and mailto requests, the application was crashing in previous builds
· Fixing an issue that occurred in several sections of Tweak-7 related to the de-activation of system services
May 16th, 2009· On Russian editions of Windows 7 an error occurred during startup of Tweak-7. This should have been fixed now
· Tweak-7 crashed if System Restore was disabled on the target machine, or if there were no System Restore Points
· Several crashes have been fixed that were caused by attempts to read from non existing registry keys and non existing files
· A few changes to the Tweak-7 System Service application
· Multiple changes and fixes in several sections of the main application
· Multiple changes to the setup application
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