Review of Stardock's TweakVista

mikemuch writes "The new TweakVista utility from Stardock surfaces some of Vista's more obscure settings, giving access to diagnostics and making suggestions for services that you should be running. ExtremeTech's review of TweakVista generally likes the software, and though it's called version 0.9, it is for sale — $19.95 — and feels feature-complete. More suggestions on system optimization, however, would be helpful. From the review: 'According to TweakVista, on July 1st, the "Windows Shell Services DLL service took 651ms longer to shut down than usual." That's nice. Other than this stark presentation, there's no digestible information as to why the shell services DLL took over half a second longer to shut down. And there's no hint as to what to do about it.'"

Vista For Dummies

[Anonymous Coward]

Chapter 1:

Stick with XP.

The End.

Re:It's called debugging.

[Short Circuit]

It would have irritated me. When I shut down a computer, I'm ready to go. I don't like sitting around waiting for longer-than-usual shutdowns.

You're complaining about 651ms in Vista?

[TheDarkener]

'According to TweakVista, on July 1st, the "Windows Shell Services DLL service took 651ms longer to shut down than usual." That's nice. Other than this stark presentation, there's no digestible information as to why the shell services DLL took over half a second longer to shut down. And there's no hint as to what to do about it.'

Seriously, if you're complaining about 651ms when you're using Vista... You need to get out of the house more. ;)

Startup

[Mazin07]

As one of the screenshots clearly shows, the guy's computer is infested with Norton AntiVirus and iTunes. Don't worry, I have a utility that can remove programs like those, and it only costs $19.95.

Re:Amazing...

[legirons]

"Not that things are much better on the Mac"

Indeed. Imagine having to download third-party software [slashdotdash.net] just to disable the startup noise...

(And if anyone knows how to stop iPhoto popping up whenever it thinks you've attached a camera, I'd like to hear how...)

Re:taskmanager?

[sgt scrub]

But Windows-Key u r doesn't reboot anymore, which is used much more frequently.