Portland, Oregon... August 7, 2002 – Windows-Help.NET has released Tweaking Toolbox XP v. 1.1, a powerful Windows utility that makes it easy for XP owners to customize, optimize, and secure their computing environments by accessing hundreds of hidden Windows XP settings.

Tweaking Toolbox XP lets you easily customize XP's look and feel to reflect your preferences. You can tweak the error beeps, cursor shadow, combo and list box animation, menu and tool tip animation and fading, and dozens of other settings, so that XP behaves exactly the way you want it to.

Home users can control how XP interfaces with the Internet by tweaking Internet Explorer and Outlook Express settings. You can block dangerous attachments, disable downloads, and perform other tweaks that will protect your family from the dangers of the Internet. It's easy to disable the media explorer bar, change the text on the title bars, and even disable the Outlook Express splash screen. You can disable file menu items, toolbar items, and even the ability to do full-screen and source viewing.

If you have a computer located in your waiting room, lobby, or other public place, you can control what users can do on it. It's easy to restrict users to a handful of programs that they can run or, alternatively, to identify programs that they cannot access. You can even hide entire drives, and prevent access to them. It's simple to restrict access to the control panel, or to hide some of its icons. Whether you're trying to keep the kids from changing your wallpaper and graphics settings, or you're setting up a serious security barrier to your computer's sensitive information, Tweaking Toolbox XP gives you easy access to the setting that you'll need.

Your company's network administrator can control each user's XP profile, without having to log into each user's account. This gives the administrator control over disabling Registry editing tools, automatic Windows updates, autoplay, command prompt access, and other potentially dangerous computer functions that most users need not access. You can even control the task scheduler and the user's ability to uninstall Windows components.

Power users will appreciate the ability to optimize each system's memory and CPU usage, giving productivity increases to users based upon the applications that they normally run. You can even make the XP system startup process quicker by defragging the boot files.

Whether you want to remove XP components that are called "unremovable", change the synchronization schedule of your XP's Internet Time checks, or perform hundreds of other adjustments, Tweaking Toolbox XP centralizes these tweaks, and makes them easy to implement and manage.

Tweaking Toolbox XP runs under Windows XP, costs $29.95(US), and may be purchased securely online at http://www.tweakingtoolbox.com/. Multi-license discounts and site licenses are available. You can download a free, 14-day trial version from the same web site. Users of Windows 95/98/Me/2000 can use Windows-Help.NET's companion product Tweaking Toolbox for Windows to perform many of the same customizing and security functions.

Tweaking Toolbox XP is marketed worldwide by Rose City Software.

For more information contact info@tweakingtoolbox.com.