TWEAK - Release Notes For Version 0.9.0
TWEAK 0.9.0 is a major new version. Significant changes to all of TWEAK enhance its capabilities and update it for current versions of software applications and with Windows (2000 and XP, not Vista).
These new applications are supported: Firefox, Thunderbird, Enigmail, Adobe Flash Player, Eraser.
Support for these applications has been removed: Pegasus Mail, F-Prot, Real Player, Nero Burning ROM, NoteTab, Zinf.
The Desktop, Start Menu and Quick Launch shortcut suite has been completely overhauled, including removing some programs' shortcuts and adding others.
Existing users, beware that if you used the options in previous versions of TWEAK supporting multiple partitions (C: for Windows, D: for Programs, E: for Temp and F: for data), TWEAK now instead assumes that C: and D:'s uses have been combined (resulting in C: for Windows and Programs, D: for Temp and E: for data).
application configuration sections assume the applications are installed in versionless, brandless directoriesSee the changelog for the complete and detailed list of all changes.
This release has been extensively tested and refined over the last two years, having been used to deploy our Roaming Computing System versions 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 in various organisations.
Windows Automatic Updates has now been turned on so that it downloads and applies updates automatically. If you are in a large organisation and manage these then you may not want these. However for smaller organisations we found they cannot afford to pay IT support to spend time assessing such updates and so they just got applied in one go anyway without prior testing. Also, its a balance between spending the time assessing or waiting for others to assess, and the 'Patch Tuesday, Exploit Wednesday' that has emerged - where is the risk most likely to come from, Microsoft's sloppiness or those exploiting Microsoft's flaws? I felt it was now from the exploiters.