Customizing Windows with Winaero Tweaker

I have lost track of how many people have told me that I need to try Winaero Tweaker. So, that's what we're doing today.
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[@SlyAceZeta]

14:35 HOLY CRAP. I've suspected for a very long time that Windows lowers the quality of wallpapers because when I use certain already-mediocre-quality images, such as from older games, I've seen the quality become far worse. I feel validated seeing this. This is an incredibly important option for people using older pictures on higher resolutions. Thank you!

[@dktol56]

You can export your favorite changes made with Winaero Tweaker on one system and import them on other systems. Together with Bookmarks, that saves a lot of time hunting among the settings.

[@CyberCPU]

True, I should have included that in the video.

[@superdextron]

Your videos are always informative I am so glad i discovered this channel a year ago!!! Love your content, Rich! ❤❤❤

[@CyberCPU]

Thanks, glad the channel is helpful.

[@strongjohn10956]

What fun! Thank you very much! Agree that adding features to the context menu is really nice!

[@klwthe3rd]

Please do a followup video on the Windows 11 section. Over 20% of all Windows users have upgraded to Windows 11 so it would be worth the review. Thanks

[@CyberCPU]

I might.

[@infotruther]

I would

[@shahriar0247]

​@@pinkgrognakcould be a Grammatical mistake

[@AerixArtGames]

Love your videos so much man, definitely going to be checking this one out. I figured you’d cover Aero next haha, looks awesome.

[@CyberCPU]

Yeah, with the number of people that suggested it I had to try it. It works pretty well.

[@thereallantesh]

I was wondering if you were going to do a video on this program. I've been using it for quite a while now, and I love it. One of my favorite features is disable blur on sign-in screen. It's such a trivia thing, yet it makes me extremely happy.

[@jrapplefan2231]

Take two: Your first explanation of Aero was great. I think it is time to do another one with more details . Thank you.

[@lexluthermiester]

@CyberCPU Tech Glad you finally covered it! One of my favorite tools! EDIT: I only use Windows 11. Seeing it run in Win10 was interesting. You really should do another video to cover the Windows 11 features because many of them are very useful!

[@kyanoang3l0_old]

This tool has been around since 2015. A classic must-have utility for Windows 7-11 users.

[@ronvdvr3479]

Great videos. Glad I found the channel.

[@ipswichcrazy]

I got it working fine in Windows 11. Thanks for the review.

[@brunoosti1]

This was great! Enabled font size tweaking to better take advantage of higher resolution monitor : ). Thank you!

[@mr_r3z4]

Good To See You Man. I Like Your Beared Face😃 I wish I will have a video On Removing Write Protection From SD/Pendrive.

[@chinezul_jojoimi3204]

Winaero Tweaker is personally my favorite app for tweaking my PC! It has so many options that suits your needs and also make my own good looking Windows

[@xAlexandrr]

Aero lite theme still works with windows 11 !!! I tried it it works fine!! Cool video btw!!!!

[@ardithconley2628]

thanks for the link to the program. I will give it a try. Seems like I had programs that did this stuff with windows 8-8.1

[@bboyhanvzla]

off-topic: last night I was looking for a way to install windows 11 in my unsupported pc, which I did thanks to this channel, and when I finally see the results I was... dissapointed, I guess? I didn't know what to expect from windows 11 but I'm gonna spend more time with it. But the good thing is that I've found this channel.

[@spunky1682]

Have you installed? How is it compared to windows 10 for gaming, productivity, background apps etc??

[@nickchandley760]

I just ran across WinAero Tweaker a few days ago while trying to change the startup sound for Win11. Nowhere else did I find anything that was straightforward on how to do it - but accomplished it easily with this utility. Sure, much of what it does is simply customization and a fair bit of it is not necessary, but there's a bit of satisfaction in making the system behavior unique to you and some of the more "meat and potatoes" tweaks are truly useful and time saving.

[@MarioMadness1]

I like Winaero. been using it for quite sometime now !

[@flashlightfreek]

So good!!! Keep it up man!!!🙌🙌 💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🎃🎃🎃 Love all the videos man & the merch!! Wish I could give more🙏

[@CyberCPU]

Hey, thanks man. Appreciate it.

[@nevrynkinori3627]

I would like to rename windows to whatever I want it. maybe Door? Windows startup screen with Obama thumbs up. Your content is so entertaining and opens many "Doors" for me.

[@ZipplyZane]

Protection Against Unwanted Software is something I tend to disable. It often detects tweaks and otherwise innocuous files. And since Windows Defender doesn't ask you what you want to do, it can be a pain in the butt to override that. Heck, I did that without WinAero Tweaker, not even knowing it was there.

[@jrifter1281]

Yeah I been using this software for years its great. I also use Ultimate Windows Tweaker, its also very good.

[@TechGorilla1987]

This program is worth it's weight in gold for the tool that lets you take ownership of any windows file from a right-click menu.

[@michaeljavert4635]

Win Aero Tweaker is AWESOME. Been using it since Windows 10. It works in 11.

[@JDL16]

I noticed that my wallpapers were not looking the same one day on Win10, I figured out that some of my wallpapers were .png files which looked the same whether they were being viewed or as a wallpaper. It was the .jpeg files that looked a little worse when they were applied as wallpapers. Thats when I did a google search and found Winaero for the wallpaper setting, I've been using it ever since.

[@l11l1venom1l11l]

You can actually kill the desktop wallpaper compression in the registry as well. I've noticed that highly detailed wallpaper with a lot of red color would always get a lot of jpeg artifacts (common for the color red when it comes to compression), so it forced me to look into it. Luckily it's not a reg setting that Microsoft got rid of...yet.

[@hugosantos1476]

I use this program too. There is another called Ultimate Windows Tweaker. Version 4.8 is for Windows 10 and 5 for Windows 11.

[@CyberCPU]

Thanks. I'll check it out.

[@vBDKv]

Best tool ever made. Well, as far as memory serves anywho =)

[@Kvo_]

thanks for the info dude!

[@CyberCPU]

You bet!

[@cosmicgypsy8499]

Thanks very helpful

[@HomeOfMacWoeffie]

I like the startup sound, just make your favorite sound to a . WAV and set it as your startup sound and you have your personal sound when starting windows up....

[@microsoftsarker]

Thank you so much for making this video tutorial

[@dkolko]

Thanks!

[@CyberCPU]

Thank you.

[@x_CrossHair_x]

Thank you for taking the time to show the details of this software.. I was unsure if it was safe to use.. (if you don't make stupid changes -- and use Common Sense).. Thanks Again. Just an FYI (They Removed) the ability to stop "Edge" from loading and running in the Background. (Choice is no longer available).. Or I Can't see it.. 😪😪

[@ultimateseven77]

Love this video

[@prashlovessamosa]

Thanks man

[@klwthe3rd]

Do we have to worry about these changes reverting each time Windows does a major upgrade??? And if you use the portable version, won't these changes only take place when you run the program each time versus if it was permanently installed?

[@CyberCPU]

The program essentially just changes registry settings. So as long as those registry settings aren't invalidated in the update they should work fine.

[@infradragon]

this is true, almost every tweak is done via the registry

[@ZipplyZane]

Most of the time the settings persist through updates. But, if you want to be extra careful, you can save your tweaks so you can reapply them after an update if some of them get lost.

[@muddy32456]

classic start shell is cool for that 7 look

[@hamburmer]

StartIsBack is also pretty good

[@jarrettwalck3409]

I Really liked the days of 98 XP always something Kool to do with it.

[@roberthunter6927]

The concern I have with all these tweakers is you don't know if you are creating security holes [apart from the obvious, like disabling windows updates]. For example, I disable power shell scripts by default, because a lot of malware uses power shell scripts. If you disable power shell scripts, you can still use power shell for individual commands. But if you want to play with something like this, enable power shell scripts, then afterwards, disable it again. Just my two cents. As far as I know, using control-alt-delete to get to login is a good security feature. It makes it harder for someone to get access remotely.

[@jacksimcox]

Old new explorer, a shell extension which enables useful File Explorer features

[@bbrrraaapp]

Windows 11 user, have used it on 10, long time user of Winaero, gaming laptop and Windows 11 actually updates drivers wrong over OEM drivers downloaded from laptop website, so always after fresh install and let Windows run it's updates and driver installs, I then enable Disable Drivers updates with Winaero and then run the OEM drivers.

[@chrismarzarella2106]

The look of 11 is growing on me. It's cleaner and doesn't look toy-ish.

[@samletsplaygames]

So I WANT TO LOVE THIS PROGRAM. it just doesnt work with my system. even with the plug in installed, it doesnt recognize my fans attached to my controller. and it is also giving me a no speed sensor detected message.

[@infradragon]

windows by default compresses your wallpaper into a jpeg at 85 quality (it doesn't matter the resolution or file format)

[@stickoutofthemud]

Sold me on changing window borders to something actually fricking visible. But wish we dint have to have Aero anything turned on to do so.

[@DDlol01]

10:30 The Windows Installer is disabled in safe mode, so you do not install virtual drivers with it. Safe Mode does not "restirct" stuff, it is a seperate environment for drivers, that the normal mode *expands* on (and as such uses). In normal mode you override (system-)settings for the drivers rather than changing them for safe mode. However when in safe mode, installing a virtual driver, you *might* chage these settings for the vritual device to work properly, which windows does not like and opposes the "clean" state of safe mode. But I gotta say: Does not matter. Go nuts. You have to clean install windows anyways if something messes up your drivers lel. Also, the settings don't really matter for modern drivers anyways. Only the generic drivers get clunky and laggy (maybe). And the chance, you install the drivers this way is ... nowadays ... veeery low. It makes sense for a win-dev but not for a dev on win lel.

[@jasonhawkins4528]

Disable blur on login screen is my favourite

[@mrbbsdp2627]

chris titus has a great tool to use, that sounds funny saying this

[@CyberCPU]

I believe his tool is primarily for debloating. However, I haven't looked at it for a while.

[@blendermind]

My favorite feature is disable automatic updates and any other restridted settings

[@dkolko]

I just subscribed and donated. Some questions. Do you have a video on the Windows Registry and have you ever run a comparison of 2 registries (like after a program install or using a tweaker like this one)? Is there a decent reg comparer for free?

[@KlipschHead281]

My issue with utilities like this is they get wiped out when MS releases their latest full OS version forcing you to reapply the tweaks.

[@katnerd6712]

Chris Titus Tech actually authored a tool to customize Windows. I believe it works on both 10 and 11. You might want to check it out or maybe do a collab with him discussing it.

[@RoscoeDaMule]

that guy is a fool

[@mlong1958]

Telemetry is used by Defender. Not a big deal on a retail PC but if it is managed by and organization, especially if they are using Defender or Intune, it should always be on.

[@RoscoeDaMule]

gr8 to know, ima use a 3rd party anti virus now.... thanks a lot!

[@wartortlerulestheworld]

Nice Video I wonder if and when can I disable the Welcome Screen cause in Windows XP you can do that but not in Windows 10 I want more of a Windows 2000 Sign Screen.

[@computersrepaircotesaint-l7407]

thx man

[@CyberCPU]

Your welcome.

[@kendocashwell4537]

Can this be run from a flash drive ? Awesome video Man !

[@klwthe3rd]

Killing the Microsoft Welcome Experience is WORTH the entire program. Damn those Microsoft account pushers!!!!!

[@CyberCPU]

Yes, that's a cool feature.

[@klwthe3rd]

@@CyberCPU Wish that would have been one of your manual registry hacks in the other two videos you produced. I would love to to turn that off going into the Registry.

[@bbo1779]

Where did you find the beautiful desktop wallpaper?

[@gofrancis]

Hi. Have you covered the "ViveTool 0.3.1" - It allows us to get Explorer Tabs in Windows 11 (version 22H2)

[@CyberCPU]

No, I haven't. However, tomorrow's video is about that very subject. You don't need Vivetool anymore. You just need to install the latest feature update for 22H2.

[@wqiojekpldlknbwjklopiwojaslKZ]

i used the aero lite theme on windows 11 with basic themer and i got this weird classic theme

[@wqiojekpldlknbwjklopiwojaslKZ]

@@Carahato that sucks

[@OB17O]

Please do ps4 controller work with pc like full functional like console, audio work with inbuilt headphone jack in controller through wireless connection... Hope you find it , I was searching all the internet ❤️🙌🏻

[@laptoptweakingtips]

WPD (windows privacy dashboard) is also cool, but nowhere near as cool as Winaero Tweaker. That app is the goat

[@CyberCPU]

It's definitely overwhelming considering everything you can do with it.

[@laptoptweakingtips]

@@CyberCPU my favourites: context menu take ownership and run with priority Editing my computer folders And lastly setting ram above split threshold Nice video brother, enjoy the app 🤘🤘

[@markgrayson3039]

Спасибо за видео. +- всё понятно

[@bigsky1970]

Yeah, I recommend against disabling Windows Updates too, because not only do you get updates for WIndows 10 itself, but you also get virus definition updates for your Windows Security that resides in the System Tray. Those tend to update more frequently than Windows 10 itself. Windows 10 will usually have an update once a month, typically the first or second Tuesday of the month and it will usually have a bigger system wide update every 3 or 4 months. BTW, I used this program way back in the Windows XP days. That tells you how long this piece of software has been around.

[@mystixa]

definitely use this to disable windows update Especially on a computer that you depend on to work reliably and not go on its own self-imposed vacatioin that it may or may not return from.

[@TheRealAudiobookLounge]

you can use revo uninstaller for removing all of windows bloat easily, and also you can get rid of edge and edge view, its a paid software btw

[@CyberCPU]

I use Revo uninstaller. I haven't updated it in quite a while, do they not have a free version anymore?

[@TheRealAudiobookLounge]

@@CyberCPU there is a free version, but i like to support product i like, so i bought a pro copy,, btw its on sale now for 12$

[@desii1]

I have spent a ton of time trying to get my Win 11 Taskbar to show my double-stacked Quickstart on the left then open items then the double-stacked notification area far right. How can I accomplish that? I've tried several programs but have had no luck as yet.

[@levanpirate]

at 22:15 how can i do to get "Desktop" at the beginning like you ? Mine stays at the end

[@seranagod909]

is there an option to remove windows admin shield from shortcuts? just visually and not actually removing admin, cant find it

[@666KoXz666]

23:05 just write C: into adress bar and hidden drive will open. Drive is hidden but is accesable

[@davinp]

They need to update tweak programs to work with Windows 11 2022

[@CyberCPU]

I agree, they do. However many tweak programs are small projects that probably don't have the funding to stay as updated as they should be.

[@kcgunesq]

I use Winaero daily but only think it about yearly. A great program that simply works. Another great volume tweaker is HideVolume OSD

[@infotruther]

I have a dual boot system in other words im using windows 11 and Ubuntu will this affect my settings?

[@singletona082]

As someone with vision issues that has recently undergone cateracts surgery making those issues somewhat worse for the sake of stabilizing what's left? I love tweaker. It's a bit chunky to use but it gives back SOME of the fine granular control UI customization had in 9x, xp, vista, and 7. Why they went with this publicly facing 'oh you can only do things globally' nonsense baffles me. Literally made windows useable again.

[@MrChriszerk]

Hi, I am having a problem with Sandisk all of a sudden show up that my USB is write-protected. I have tried everything to fix it. registry, cmd, program disk manager, and still can't fix it as I still like to add fills to this USB. Can you help me pleases?

[@Venoms60]

To display parameters BSOD reg setting. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl, Dword 32 bit, Name it "DisplayParameters" value 1, save restart

[@toddhuttenstine8232]

Do you know anything about getting Snipping Tool (version 11.2307.44.0)? It allows OCR extraction feature so you can extract text from screenshot images. I cant find it anywhere. I have Windows 10 on this computer and I really want that tool but I dont want to have to upgrade.

[@hyperhype1000]

Does it improve gpu performance tho. I'm at my wits end.

[@silentghostproductions6453]

You should make a Video on What Windows 10 in S mode is..

[@CyberCPU]

I did a video on how to disable it and I explain briefly in that video what it is.

[@shadowopsairman1583]

Aero Glass is Missing, it needs that yo look like NT 6.1

[@Fireball1800]

I would like to tweak back to windows XP view.

[@pegatheetoo1437]

Windows used to be so easy to use and tweak so it did just what you wanted it to do, then MicroSoft made it 'user friendly.'

[@illogical1421]

Still can't make the title bar transparent which is just frustrating.

[@paulskillcorn5845]

use classic shell only works owin 10 down not win 11

[@Filyx20]

The features i use the most is running as trusted installer, it's my pc, on Linux my account is root i know what I'm doing and if i nuke my system, that's where backups are used. Trusted installer is basically the windows version of root, it has access to everything, has all the authorization can delete system 32 without a single pop-up, my system i decide when to kill it

[@damian-kid]

I have enabled the enter username on Lock Screen and I am stuck at the Lock Screen

[@A_Lesser_Man]

i want a webpage as my wallpaper (even if that "web page" is locally stored)

[@CyberCPU]

Let's that's how active desktop worked in Windows 98.

[@spenmac]

@CyberCPU Tech, So I recently upgraded my potato (media pc, same spec as your potato) and I'm going to guess your already aware of this issue. But since 22H2 the usual trick to getting the classic taskbar context menu is cause Windows explorer to crash. Dont suppose your aware of a work around for this..? Fyi I still used Win10 21H2 on my main desktop and Win11 is still way to unreliable due to WU's that brake OS functionality. I still mis Win7 (even 8.1 w/classic shell), but not its lack of dark mode.

[@CyberCPU]

I am aware of the issues. I made a video called, make Windows 11 look like Windows 10. That should fix the taskbar.

[@spenmac]

@@CyberCPU Ah ok, I did watch that but thought as that was an older video it didnt apply to 22H2, will go and re-watch after dinner! 🙂

[@CyberCPU]

@@spenmac I can't remember if that video was filmed on 22H2 or not. However I have since done it on 22H2 and it works the same.

[@spenmac]

@@CyberCPU So I had to do an Arconis restore back to 8.1 and then upgrade to Win 11 21H2 (needed Win11 to use the 8.1 key and keep my apps/data) instead of 22H2. For what ever reason the windows explorer hack for the classic taskbar was causing my potato to lock up. 21H2 has been solid and have it tweaked to retain some 10 features :-)

[@InSaiyan-Shinobi]

Plz make a video on how to change cpu affinity on games that won’t let you I can’t find any info on this literally at all… call duty high cpu affinity access denied sad 😞

[@daleriff]

A new version release yesterday for 11

[@vasilispapas482]

Winaero Tweaker is a fantastic software with an abundance of tools, some of which can unlock restricted areas of Windows, thus enabling the user to make radical changes to the system. E.g. the tool "Run as Trustedinstaller", or "Reset Permissions", "View Owner", "Change Registered Owner", "Reset Permissions", "Unblock Downloaded Files", etc. I believe that the software in question is worth the effort for a whole series of explanatory videos, as the capabilities it provides to the user are excellent and many times useful if and only if the user knows what exactly he is doing. In case you do NOT know how a tool works or what exactly this tool does, it is better NOT to use it because due to its power, you can very easily destroy your operating system with one click. So be careful and always keep full backups or images of your system as the restore points sometimes fails to recover your system after a major disaster. I appeal to the channel to create a series of videos about guiding the viewers in HOW and WHY we use some software like the current one and others like "Sysinternal suite", "Hasleo Win to USB", "Performance Monitor" (perfmon .exe ) built-in Windows tool which is extremely useful in investigating Windows malfunctions and more. Unfortunately, I don't have the required time and infrastructure to make these video instructions myself. However, I can see the thirst for knowledge in the viewers' comments and I believe that a move in this direction would be warmly received. Yours sincerely

[@JMFusselman]

Science plus Just all the tweakers in 1 app

[@katnerd6712]

If you use something like this keep in mind you have to run it after every single Windows Update, since they will overwrite any custom settings you have and install things whether you've allowed it or not.

[@kcgunesq]

I've never noticed this. Are you sure?

[@JMFusselman]

Try settings plus

[@amosreginaldjr.4200]

I’m only getting this to play puble palace.

[@menounderstandings]

CyberCPU, i know i am commenting this 7 months later. But is winaero tweaker safe? i have repaired and reinstalled my system over 5 times already, i don't wanna ruin it again.

[@roylopez6673]

Ultimate Windows Tweaker for Windows 11

[@spyne89]

DVXK for games please try it for me

[@chrisevans9779]

win-aero-tweaker+desktopok+dexpot+rainmeter+coolbars+everything+winderstat+sysinternal process explorer+Hot virtual keyboard+bleachbit+speccy+Fast stone image viewer+VLCvideo player+LibreOffice = a very powerful windows 10 for me. just 30 bucks for the hot keyboard too.. Add foxitreader+cdisplayreader(for-Comics) +xnview+fotor(photos)+anyvideoconverter and there is not much you cant do.. quick cliq too almost forgot. thats the most vital+badasz stuff i have come across in the last 13 years of computing. a vid on each of these i would consider a community service. the only way im going to win 11 or up will be a situation like having to leave win 7 due to direct x support . my set up is too powerful and sweet to ditch if for try to be more haughty like apple win 11.

[@ab-fab8071]

Q: If I install and make changes, then uninstall app do the changed get removed (revert)?

[@starksuman]

no