{"id":17951,"date":"2019-11-07T15:11:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=17951"},"modified":"2019-11-07T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:11:18","slug":"winaero-tweaker-a-cloudeight-freeware-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/winaero-tweaker-a-cloudeight-freeware-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"WinAero Tweaker &#8211; A Cloudeight Freeware Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 30pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">WinAero Tweaker<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Works with Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 (all versions)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">WinAero Tweaker: The Windows Your Way Tweaker<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We featured WinAero Tweaker a few years ago. Today we revisited it to see what was new for Windows 10 users and we found a lot of new tweaks that we think will appeal to most Windows 10 users, especially for those who are annoyed by some of the things Windows 10 changed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">WinAero Tweaker has hundreds of tweaks you can use to customize Windows. Some tweaks and features work only on the specified version of Windows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For Windows 10 users, you&#8217;ll find that WinAero Tweaker allows you to customize Windows 10 and personalize it so it works more like <em><strong>you<\/strong><\/em> want it to. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Here are some of the things Windows 10 users can do with WinAero Tweaker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Change the color of things like title bars &amp; Start menu<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Turn on Dark Mode<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Turn on Light Mode<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Disable Driver Updates in Windows Update,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Disable Live Tiles<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Disable Balloon Tips<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Disable Cortana<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Disable the Lock Screen<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Change the Lock Screen background<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Customize the Context menu (right-click menu)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Remove arrows from desktop shortcuts<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Remove item names from desktop shortcuts<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Disable Windows 10 Telemetry (prevent Windows 10 from Phoning home)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Install the old Windows 7 Games ( Backgammon, Spades, Checkers Chess, FreeCell, Purble Place, Solitaire, and Spider Solitaire, Hearts, Mahjong, and Minesweeper.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Get the Windows 7 version of Windows Photo Viewer.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8230;. and dozens and dozens more Windows tweaks and features.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">One of the best features of WinAero Tweaker is what we called the &#8220;built-in mess-up protection feature&#8221; &#8211; that&#8217;s our name for it, not the developer&#8217;s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"> If you mess something up, you can reset everything back to default by opening WinAero Tweaker and pressing CTRL+R. And if you only want to reverse the tweaks and changes that you made, you can do so by opening WinAreo Tweaker, clicking on &#8220;File &gt; Reverse all tweaks&#8221;. Folks, it doesn&#8217;t get much easier than that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/winaero0.png\" alt=\"WinAero Tweaker - Cloudeight Freeware Pick\" width=\"507\" height=\"537\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Sceenshot of WinAero Tweaker&#8217;s main program Window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/winaero.png\" alt=\"WinAero Tweaker - Cloudeight Freeware Pick\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Screenshot of a WinAero Tweaker &#8220;tweak&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/winaero1.png\" alt=\"WinAero Tweaker - Cloudeight Freeware Pick\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Screenshot of WinAero Tweaker&#8217;s &#8220;Mess-up protection&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you install WinAero Tweaker and have a question, there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;ll find the answer on the<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/winaero.com\/blog\/winaero-tweaker-faq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WinAero FAQ page<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winaero.com\/blog\/the-list-of-winaero-tweaker-features\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For a full list of features see this page.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winaero.com\/comment.php?comment.news.1836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You can learn a lot more about WinAero Tweaker here.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Wanna download WinAero Tweaker?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The download link is a bit hard to find. We&#8217;ll help you out. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/winaero.com\/request.php?1796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Here is the direct download link to WinAero Tweaker.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; WinAero Tweaker Works with Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 (all versions) WinAero Tweaker: The Windows Your Way Tweaker We featured WinAero Tweaker a few years ago. Today we revisited it to see what was new for Windows 10 users and we found a lot of new tweaks that we think will appeal to most\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/winaero-tweaker-a-cloudeight-freeware-pick\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,1961],"tags":[280,3612,3611,3610,1684,7,1353],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17953,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17951\/revisions\/17953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}