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TweakUI and Paranoia
I have XP and have the Microsoft Power Toys for XP which includes TweakUI. On NT, TweakUI had a Paranoia tab but I can't find that with the XP TweakUI. Does anyone know where to find that same information on XP?

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One tweak tool that has a variety of "paranoia" options is FreshUI (http://www.freshdevices.com/freshui.html).  Look at the "Covering Your Track" (sic) tab.

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jthow,

I don't see that in the Explorer General tab. My General tab only has these options:

1) Show common tasks in folders / Use Windows classic folders
2) Open each task in the same window / Open each task in its own window
3) Single click / Double click

The other tabs don't seem to have this either.

ttterk,

I'll take a look at the link you provided but I would really like to find this in Windows.

FreshUI--like TweakUI--is actually just a large and well-organized collection of registry tweaks, so you could probably find them all (eventually) by searching the registry and/or googling Windows XP help forums for security tweaks.

For instance, if you wish not to display the last user name in an interactive login screen, you go to Admin Tools>Local Security Policy, open the Local Policy  folder and then the Security Options sub-folder and scroll down to the Interactive Logon section and make the appropriate change.

Which paranoia/security tweaks were you looking for?

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ESQuicksall,

The tab I was referring to is the one in the XP version of TweakUI.

JohnT

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What I'm looking for is the tweak that causes IE to delete the history and pulldown list when I re-boot.

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ESQuicksall,

Not available in the XP version of TweakUi.  You could try the s/w mentioned by ttterk.  It seems to have the optons you are looking for.  Get it from www.freshdevices.com

JohnT

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Actually, I'm trying to do the reverse... i.e., once I turned this feature on and now I want to turn it back off.

To say this in a different way, I have made a change at one time in the past to cause IE to delete the history when I either logoff of Windows. Now I want to reverse what I did but I can't find the diaglog/menu that allowed me to do it. I mentioned TweakUI because that is how I did it on W2K and thought I had used that method on XP.

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Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.