X-Setup Pro 9.1 released!

2008-11-18 | We are happy to announce that X-Setup Pro 9.1 has been released and is now available from our download page.

This release contains minor bug fixes, a consistent appearance on Vista, several internal components updates and a lot of new plugins.

To see with plugins have been added or changed just use Extras – Plugin History (or press F6) inside X-Setup Pro Classic. A click on an item in this list will activate the plugin directly.

If you are interested what exactly has been changed, please have a look at HISTORY.TXT once you installed it.

New plugins for Windows, Firefox and Windows Installer are available

2008-9-16 | We have released several new plugins for X-Setup Pro today.

You can now make the CAPS-LOCK key to behave like a normal shift key or disable it all together. Another plugin will allow you to gain access to the "System Volume Information" folder (works for XP Home/Vista Basic also). And in case you have disk space trouble, a new plugin allows you to limit the amount of disk space Windows Installer will use for caching patch files.

For Firefox we have included three new plugins. One allows you to specify the location of your bookmarks (Firefox 1 & 2) and another one can be used to enable resizing popup windows even if the JavaScript code disallows this. Finally, you can now control if secure websites should be displayed with a blue site button before the address bar, making it much more clear if you are using a secure connection or not.

To retrieve these updates just start Automatic Updates from within X-Setup Pro.

New plugins available

2007-12-23 | We have released several new plugins available for X-Setup Pro today. The following new options can be controlled:

Change OEM display information (in both System and Performance Information and Tools) for Vista, control auto run entries for CMD.exe and configure logging for certificate auto enrollment in XP.

We also have included several bug fixes for existing plugins.

To retrieve these updates just start Automatic Updates from within X-Setup Pro.

Vista Constant HD Activity Craziness

2007-11-17 | As it seems that more people now switch to Windows Vista, we are getting a lot of complains about the constant HD activity of Windows Vista. Since we have switched to Vista already and we got so many requests about this topic, we refer to this only as "Vista Constant HD Activity Craziness".

The obvious question from the customers were "Can X-Setup Pro be used to fix this?". So we invested some time to find out what is causing all this HD activity. Our findings, which include the programs that cause the most HD activity, what they are good for and how you can configure them, can be found on the Information Transmogrification Blog of TeX HeX. If you want to know what is going on in the background, have a look.

Since all these programs can be configured in Windows right out of the box, we have currently no plans to include extra plugins in X-Setup Pro.

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