BDSystems TweakExplorer
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Introduction
Welcome to TweakExplorer, the favorite
utility to tweak your Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT
Explorer. This tool is currently beta, so everything in this
documentation and in the programm is subject to change without
notice.
Features
TweakExplorer makes your daily work with
the Windows Explorer more easy. Currently, it features:
- Restarting the explorer with
restauration of the Traybar
- Terminating an application via
hotkey (and when we say "terminate", we mean it
:)
- Disabling Alt-Tab, Ctrl-Alt-Del and
the Windows key
Installation
- Unzip the TweakExplorer.zip file to
a temporary folder
- Execute setup.exe
Using TweakExplorer
When TweakExplorer starts up, it shows a
little dialog box for 5 seconds providing information for the
hotkeys. TweakExplorer is fully "hotkey" driven, that
means that every function can only be accessed by a hotkey. This
is the dialog box:

As you see, there are 4 hotkeys:
- Ctrl+Alt+F12 terminates
TweakExplorer
- Ctrl+Alt+F3 terminates the
currently active process. Now one could say: Alt+F4 does
exactly the same, but that isn't true! We
"terminate" the process, so it is very usable
with stuck processes or if you want to get rid of the all
dialogboxes the program would otherwise show.
- Ctrl+Alt+Ins is the most
important feature of TweakExplorer. It is the only tool
that can restart the explorer and restore the TrayBar. It
shuts down every program that is currently running and
then gracefully restarts the explorer. Explorer is then
restarting all autostart-applications and so you have
your TrayBar back. In most cases, you will use this
utility to restart the explorer when it just crashed and
left you with an empty TrayBar. Happy Restarting! :)
- Ctrl+Alt+F11 configures the
program. This dialogbox appears:

As you can see, you can configure several features of
TweakExplorer. With the first checkbox, you can
(de)activate the program termination feature. With the
second one you can (de)activate the Shell-restart feature
and with the last one you can disable Ctrl+Alt+Del,
Alt+Del and the Windows Key.
This document
Copyright ©1999 by BDSystems. All Rights Reserved.
Subject to change.
By using the program you agree to the license agreement found in
the Configuraton dialog box under About|License.