Powertoy ???????????????????

[Frenchman96]

Hi Guys

Can anyone tell me exactly what Powertoy is? in my add/remove, I have a few progs and the names are preceded by the words Powertoy.

When opening the support link, it appears they are all m/s progs.

I like to remove all I dont need so will await your reply with interest, I have now removed Windows Messenger

[Tortanick]

Power Toy is a marketing name microsoft put in front of a range of programs that give you greater control over Windows.

I think that power toys make changes to other parts of the system, rather than store changes internally so its perfectly safe to remove them. However since I have only ever used one I'd wait for someone else to back me up on this.

[mylanta]

Well I have always used many of the functions of tweak-ui which is one of the Power Toys myself and there are some very useful functi0ons of others. They are safe to remove but honestly I would learn how to use them and keep them.

[Pi rules]

Just remember that Powertoys aren't supported by Microsoft, but there are some useful ones, especially TweakUI as Rich mentioned.

[rVidia]

George:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

At the link, there's a listing of Microsoft Powertoys. Uninstalling them should be no problem, although as Rich said, you should try to learn how to use them, as some are beneficial.