Reviews of Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP

1. 
   Orbit

   Reviewing 2.10 (Jul 17, 2003)

   A few extra tweaks now. Nice little dealio from MS.
   Just curious, to the earlier poster with install troubles, did you uninstall the previous version of Tweak first ?
   I've installed it on 5 different machines so far, and it's all going well.
2. 
   Jeffsoft

   Reviewing 2.10 (Jul 17, 2003)

   great! more useful tweaks!!
3. 
   keystroke

   Reviewing 2.10 (Jul 17, 2003)

   This new version has the option for changing the "grace period" of the screensaver - ie. how many seconds before a password is required to unlock your machine. As well as "access control" features.
4. 
   Gothos

   Reviewing 2.10 (Jul 17, 2003)

   Seems as though the only powertoy that was updated was TweakUI, which now is only compatible with WinXP SP1 or later and Windows Server 2003. I didn't see much else new in the new TweakUI except maybe the ability to have a custom animation for Internet Explorer (top right, busy anim)
5. 
   EgoWarrior

   Reviewing 2.0 (Apr 24, 2002)

   This is just a note for mrzootsuit if he looks back here:
   
   run "regedit" go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
   And change the entry ShellIconBPP from 32 to 16, you'll get your high colour icons back.
   May need a reboot, or just change your visual style and it should refresh it.
   
   The only usefull powertoy for a long time has been TweakUI, although the media player would've been good if it wasn't so buggy.

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