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Top 10 tweaks you profited the most from? Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts. GrofLuigi Posted October 30, Posted October 30, So here goes my list, from best to "less best, but still pretty good": 1. It tweaks your context menu so it shows everything it used to, like this:. You can regain the classic context menu with some Registry hacks, but poking around in the Registry is generally not recommended.

The developer of this tweak provides a little application that makes the Registry changes for you:. There is one gotcha. When you point yourself to the developer's website , you'll get a page with a whole bunch of spammy-like ads. There are a bunch of download buttons and links, but most of them take you to who-knows-what from some advertiser. Just be careful and scroll down until you find this download button, just above the Related Posts section:.

Finally, you may have to tell Windows to bypass some of its protections and install from an unknown publisher. Think hard on this. How badly do you want that classic menu? Because you are about to trust an unsigned executable.

I tried it and had no ill effects, but we're promising nothing. You and only you are responsible for your decisions when it comes to installing software from the Internet. Next up is a very simple tool that lets you tweak a bunch of Windows 11 taskbar settings. As you can see, it not only will let you left-align your taskbar, it can move it to the top of the screen a feature apparently gone from Windows 11 , and make the icons bigger or smaller:.

You can download the executable from this Github repository. So far, we've spotlighted free techniques for tweaking Windows Now, we're going to introduce you to two tools that will be familiar to many users of Windows from back in the day. Stardock has been around since They have been tweaking and customizing Windows for most of that time, but they began shipping the must-install Start8 utility when Windows 8 changed everyone's Start menu by taking it away.

As it turns out, they also did a Start10 , but that wasn't quite as mission-critical. Start11 does a lot of what the previous tools do, but it integrates all the features in an easy-to-use way. I'm already a fan, don't show this again. Send MSN Feedback. How can we improve? Please give an overall site rating:. Privacy Statement. Opens in a new window Opens an external site Opens an external site in a new window.

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It calculates Windows Experience Index from the main page. Click on Run assessment to recalculate the WEI. You can Run DISM and SFC command to fix corrupted system image or files with a click Refreshed design with command link buttons The Internet Explorer section has been removed Hover over a tweak, and get the description at the bottom of the tweaker.

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