Fresh UI - From Fresh Devices - Free

This one is called Fresh UI from Fresh Devices and is a freebie. Nope, never heard of it nor tried it, but I guess I will. Over to Fresh Devices web site to take a look at the product. Fresh Devices states that their products is:

“Fresh UI is a fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings in Windows XP/2000/NT/ 98/95/Me, this software covers the customizing and optimizing techniques that you’ll be glad to know, such as:

• Customizing Windows User Interface (UI)
• Optimizing system settings
• Optimizing hardware settings
• Customizing Windows application settings
• Controlling user environment with policies

Fresh UI is organized by section for easy navigation and completed with detail descriptions for easy reference.

Supported Operating System:
Windows 95, Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP.”

Sounded impressive so I downloaded and took it for a spin. You have to register with Fresh Devices to get a registration number to fully use their tweaker or any of their other products. Once that was completed I navigated around Fresh UI. Well I must admit that this is a highly configurable tweaking tool. This puts Microsoft’s TweakUI way behind the flow.

One of the things that I noticed and I found of interest was something I believe a system builder might find useful. We have all had a client or two that likes to go into to Control Panel and play with the settings. I had one person who wanted larger icons so they tweaked the settings to 72 points. Everything was so screwed up you couldn’t even get to the Start button. LOL. I was able to repair the settings with a admonishment of not to play around anymore. But a few weeks later I was back again with another repair for a tweak that went bad.

Anyway, there are plenty of tweaks available and there is something for everyone. Oh, they even have a tweak for playing Hearts in which by pressing 4 keys at once, you can view your opponents hand. Now that’s important! Enjoy. :-)

Fresh UI download here.