X-Setup Pro is a so-called "tweaker" program; it allows you to change settings that are normally hidden deeply in Windows fast and easily. There are many hidden settings in Windows as well as in a lot of other programs and normally you can"t change them. X-Setup Pro knows 1,900 of these settings and displays them in an easy to use interface, grouped by several aspects (Figure 1). Simply choose what you want to tweak, select the setting in question, make your change and hit the "Apply" button. It"s that easy. Even with all the features it offers, it is clutter free: X-Setup Pro is ready for your wishes in about five seconds and needs only at about 10 MB RAM. It does not install any automatically launched "helper" apps like many other programs. If you exit X-Setup Pro, it is gone and there"s nothing running in the background that would bog down your system.
What"s New:
X-Setup Pro 9.0 fully supports Windows Vista with User Account Control, can be put on U3 smart devices as well as "plain" USB sticks, it features several user interface enhancements and a lot of plugins changes are also included.
- This version is a major update because all COM GUIDs, the settings handling and the default COM registration changes, item locations etc. etc. etc. changes
- FIX: Setup program mixed up language code for file (e.g. .EN) with language code for application (e.g. "" = EN/Native)
- FIX: The registry path displayed when an item is restored does now contain in all cases a "" between the root key (HKEY_...) and the path
- ENGINE: GetBasePath() will now first check XSP is started from the bin folder and check the registry as fallback
- ENGINE: GetBasePath() will halt the current program if it can"t find cfgsystem.cfg
- SETTINGS: ItemsDir is now a non-configurable option
- SETTINGS: ItemsTranslationDir is now a non-configurable option
- SETTINGS: RestoreLogDir is now a non-configurable option
- SETTINGS: RestoreLogDir is now splitted into RestoreLogDirSystem and RestoreLogDirUser which are saved into the Current User Profile path and All User Profile path. That way, if the user has a roaming profile, his restore log will move with him.
- SETTINGS: LogFileDir is now a non-configurable option
- SETTINGS: The Setting "Automatic Updates: Show plugins/Show wizards" has been removed
- SETTINGS: "Automatic Update: User Site 1/2" has now been completly removed
- SETTINGS: The setting BartPE Active has been renamed to PEEnv (PrE Boot Environment Active)
- SETTINGS: "Cache plug-ins" and "Cache wizards" has been aggregated to "Cache items"
- SETTINGS: If the file cfgFlag_AuxiliaryHere.cfg is found, auxiliary files (e.g. the log file) will be saved directly to the data folder
- SETTINGS: If the file cfgFlag_ConfigHere.cfg is found, the config files will be saved directly to the data folder
- SETTINGS: If the file cfgFlag_RestoreLogHere.cfg is found, the restore log files will be saved directly to the data folder
- CONFIG: The config program has all no longer configurable items removed
- SETTINGS: Favorites will now be saved to a file in the same folder as settings.ini
- SETTINGS: ExtProgramms will now be saved to a file in the same folder as settings.ini
- SETTINGS: Window Locations does now also use the settings.dll library and saves the locations into the same folder as settings.ini
- LOG FILE: The log file does now also contain the computer name on each "*** START" message
- LICENSE: The License file will now be saved to the same folder as config
- LICENSE: Reading the license number will now be executed using GlobalOptions which should speed up this operation a little bit
- MISC: Updated all application manifest files to be better readable and also updated version tags
- MISC: All application manifest files now include the requestedExecutionLevel tag required by Windows Vista
- SETTINGS: All COM GUIDs for the xqdcXSPSettings.dll type library have been changed
- ENGINE: All COM GUIDs for the xqdcXSPEngine.dll type library have been changed
- SETTINGS: Optimized the HKLM vs HKCU/Local file handling resulted in 400% less registry access
- MISC: RegFreeCOM vLib has been created, allowing XSP to work without any local Registry information
- SETUP: XSP will now completly delete the folder misc and all of its contents to avoid that this folder is beeing left over because of automatically generated files (like thumbs.db)
- SETUP: Setup will now also create a "normal" start link directly below %ProgramFilesX-Setup Pro for users that which to start it from there
- SETUP: The setup program will no longer automatically register XSP to the registry if running on XP or upwards
- PLUGINS: All Internet Explorer plugins have been moved into the new folder "Internet Explorer 6" to be prepared for version 7
- SETTINGS: XSP can now be put into "Portable mode" by using the flag file Flag_PortableMode.cfg - this will change the display inside "Welcome to XSP"
- SETTINGS: If Flag_PortableMode.cfg is found, XSP behaves as if also Flag_AuxiliaryHere.cfg and Flag_ConfigHere.cfg were found
- MISC: All application manifest files do now have a dependency to xqdcXSPRegFreeCOM
- CONFIG: A new category has been created "System Properties" that lists several of the now read-only properties of XSP, for example all paths XSP is using
- MISC: Created xqdcXSPCleanupCheck.exe which will wait until XSP has shut down and then remove any left over temporary files
- MISC: The new read me file "readme-Portable-EN.txt" has been created, explaining how to install XSP on an USB device
- START: Start.exe is now much more "intelligent" and does no longer try to remove the folders "." and ".." inside the TranslationTempDir folder
- CLNCHK: CleanupCheck does now use a Mutex to prevent that it is running several times
- CLNCHK: If CleanupCheck is started interactive, it does no longer closes itself but will instead be visible and stay open
- CLNCHK: CleanupCheck does will now respect the user-selected font (settings)
- MISC: The cache file location will now also be retrieved from settings
- ENGINE: Created new COM object "SimpleTest" to allow start.exe a better test
- START: Start.exe will now check if the Windows version is at least Windows XP if configured for portable mode
This release contains much more changes, the full list can be found inside History.txt once you have installed it.
Thanks to Apul for posting this in BPN.