Tweakers

Tweakers is a lightweight and portable piece of software that you can use to make several adjustments concerning the behavior of your operating system. Although it is very simple to work with, it primarily caters to advanced users.

Since installation is not a prerequisite, you can extract the program files to a custom location on the HDD and just click the executable to run.

It is also possible to save Tweakers to a USB flash disk or similar storage unit, in order to run it on any PC with minimum effort and no prior installers.

What's more, the Windows registry does not get updated with new entries, and no additional files are created on the disk, leaving it clean after removal.

The GUI is made from a regular window split into multiple panels, were all the possible tweaks are listed with select/deselect boxes. You can change properties when it comes to the taskbar and Start menu (e.g. disable Lock taskbar and balloon tips), desktop (e.g. hide "My Computer"), display (e.g. Settings and Themes tab), and shutdown (e.g. program timeout).

Other tweaks concern the Prefetch, right click, Registry Editor, toolbar customization, folder settings, speeding up system reboot, and many others. Changes are applied with the click of a button. Tweakers provides buttons for immediately restarting the computer or Windows Explorer.

The tool runs on low CPU and RAM, so it does not affect the computer's overall performance. It has a good response time and works well, without causing the OS to hang, crash or pop up error dialogs. We have not come across any issues in our tests. Some improvements are welcomed in the interface department. Otherwise, Tweakers should please all users.