Category: Winaero Apps

Our friend KNARZ has discovered some hidden and fun options of boot manager in Windows 8. According to him, he get that options via Embedded Environment. So, i used his research and made a new tool for you: Boot UI Tuner
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Latest version is 2.0, see the change log below.
With help of Boot UI Tuner you will be able:

• to enable advanced options of boot menu - such options as safe mode, debugging and so on will be available before every boot of your Windows 8;
• to enable editing of boot options - this allows you to specify an addition options for kernel. They are similar to good old boot.ini features;
• to disable blue Windows Logo during boot;
• to disable spinning circle during boot;
• to disable text messages during boot - messages like “Please wait”, “Updating registry – 10%” and so on;
• to disable whole modern boot UI and turn it into legacy mode;
• to enable or disable verbose sign in messages.

My friend PainteR has discovered a way to unlock the secret hidden Enterprise Mode of Internet Explorer 11.0.3 in recently leaked Windows 8.1 Update 1 6.3.9600.winblues14_gdr_lean.140114-0237. So we decided to release a simple tool wich allows you to get the Enterprise mode with few clicks.

Just run it to unlock the secret hidden Enterprise mode!

Close Threshold for Windows 8.1 is a must-have tool for all Windows 8.1 users. It allows you to improve ways of Metro apps closing. You will able to do much smaller mouse movements/touch "swipes" to close any app. Also it can speed up the "flip to close" feature.

Set sliders to left, and it will be not nessesary to drag Metro apllication to the bottom edge of the screen! After you click on "Apply & Restart Explorer" button Windows Explorer will be restarted and you will able to close Metro application near the top edge of the screen!
I have prepared a video to show you how is it works:

Windows Shortcut Arrow Editor allows you to remove the shortcut arrow in Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista or set it to the nice custom icon. It works properly in both x86 and x64 editions of Windows and does not require to be installed.
I saw many users requests about shortcut arrow removing and editing in Windows 8.x, so I decide to create this tool:

Warning! The latest verion is 1.0.0.2, it contains several bugfixes, please UPGRADE NOW.

ElevatedShortcut has been superseded by Winaero Tweaker and is no longer being maintained. Unlike this app, Winaero Tweaker supports all recent Windows versions, including Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and above. It constantly receives updates to improve the end user experience and make all its options more friendly for the end user.

Instead of the standalone ElevatedShortcut app, use the following options from Winaero Tweaker:

You can download Winaero Tweaker here: Download Winaero Tweaker.

Take your attention: White Windows for Windows 8 software was incapsulated by Aero8Tuner and not exists anymore!
Here is my brand new work for Windows 8. Aero8Tuner is the successor of my famous Aero Tuner (for Windows 7) and White Windows (for Windows 8 ). It allows you to change all settings of DWM/Aero at Windows 8 RTM+.

Warning! This version is for Windows 8 RTM and above! For Windows 7 and Windows 8 CP/DP/RP you may use previous Aero Tuner software.

With Aero8Tuner you will able: