Windows XP Powertoys Pulled?

Published on March 4, 2002 By StumpMan In WinCustomize News

A whole while ago, Microsoft has pulled the popular Powertoys for Windows XP from its website for some odd reason... Now it seems that the german ZDNet has revealed the reason: The Autologon feature of Tweak UI enabled users of Windows XP Home Edition to join domains on a network, eventhough this feature is only intended to be available for Windows XP Professional clients! Our german readers may want to check out more about this neat trick here.

An updated release of the Windows XP Powertoys will be available for download in April.

Comments

Judge

on Mar 05, 2002

Hmm. So who's got a copy of powertoys that they can send me?

eidylon

on Mar 05, 2002

im sure it is available to be found somewhere on the net, look for it with Morpheus or Kazaa.

MikeB314

on Mar 05, 2002

Wow, I have the old one installed on my XP Home machine, but I didn't save the setup files. Damn!

StumpMan

on Mar 05, 2002

TweakXP has this feature I think.

paxx

on Mar 07, 2002

Those who still want the XP Power Toys, they are still available at Annoyances.org: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/software/xppowertoys

paxx

on Mar 07, 2002

And StumpMan, TweakXP is part of the PowerToys.

StumpMan

on Mar 07, 2002

No, TweakXP is a seperate program you can download. This is the website for it. http://www.totalidea.de/

crackpotty

on Mar 07, 2002

the Tweak in powertoys is called TweakUI not TweakXP

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