News

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.

Important information regarding the update protection

2007-11-8 | Please note: If you purchase an update protection, it will be attached to the previous expiring date!

For example: You purchased a license on 2nd July 2006. The expiring date would be the 2nd July 2007. If you now purchase an update protection, it will be attached to this date. The new expiring date would be the 2nd July 2008. If you purchase this update in June 2008, the expiring date would be the 2nd of July 2008, anyway! If you purchase this update in August 2007, the expiring date is over - because it would have been in July 2008.

You will not be able to update the serial and you have to purchase a new license, if you want to have a serial for a newer version. Therefore please pay attention to the reminder mails and get a new update protection in time.

X-Setup Pro September 2007 Plugins Update!

2007-9-9 | We are happy to announce that we have released several new plugins for X-Setup Pro. The following is a short summary of the plugins included:

Vista: Change Shortcut Arrow (Overlay), User Account Control (UAC) Settings, User Account Control (UAC) Secure Desktop, Fast User Switching

Windows Update: Change polling frequency, disable automatic restart if limited user is logged on, and control “Search Windows Update” if new hardware is found (Vista only)

Appearance: Added new “Common Annoyances” path and replaced “Tray Area” with “Notification Area”

Adobe Reader 8: Disable “Start Meeting” or “Send to Kinko” plus one bug fix

Misc: Control display of “Global Assembly Cache” folder, several minor changes and bug fixes.

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

X-Setup Pro Price Reduction!

2007-8-23 | We are happy to announce that, because of internal optimizations, we are able to reduce the price of X-Setup Pro to 19.95 USD!

Please note that there will be no restrictions in the services we offer, there are only two changes: First, we do no longer sell CD versions of X-Setup Pro as our merchant SWREG does now offer this. Secondly, we will no longer provide an official German version of X-Setup Pro as this version does not pay off. As with the other Language Packs, we will support the community to offer German versions of X-Setup Pro and of course handover all translations we have done so far.

If you have bought X-Setup Pro in the last three months for the old (and higher) price, we will add six months of Update Protection for free! You do not need to take any action to receive this bonus. We will automatically update the accounts and inform these customers.

Adobe Reader 8 plugins available

2007-5-14 | Several plugin updates are available for X-Setup Pro through Automatic Updates. Beside bug-fixes for existing plugins, there are also plugins available that tweak Adobe Reader 8.

These new Adobe Reader 8 plugins can remove several (often unwanted) features from Adobe Reader. Once downloaded, the new options can be found in Program Options – Adobe – Adobe Reader 8.0.

X-Setup Pro 9.0 now available

2007-3-16 | After nearly four months of public beta testing, we are proud to announce that X-Setup Pro 9.0 is now available from our download page.

X-Setup Pro 9.0 fully supports Windows Vista with User Account Control, can be put on U3 smart devices as well as "plain" USB sticks, it features several user interface enhancements and a lot of plugins changes are also included.

This release contains much more changes, the full list can be found inside History.txt once you have installed it.

Updated plugins for Internet Explorer 7 now available

2006-11-18 | As promised, the updated plugins to support Internet Explorer 7 are now available. Included are plugins to change the position of the menu bar, to hide the Instant Search box, change the Quick Complete behaviour, block Internet Explorer 7 from being installed as high priority update and more.

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

Internet Explorer 7 Update Package soon

2006-10-25 | We are currently preparing a big update package to support Internet Explorer 7 within X-Setup Pro. This package will offer updates for existing plugin as well as IE7 only tweaks and finally some new combined IE6 / IE7 tweaks.

All these are currently tested against RC1 so we need to wait for the final (localized) Internet Explorer to be available.

We will announce the package here once it is ready for download.

X-Setup Pro vNEXT Information

2006-8-19 | We have posted some information about the next version of X-Setup Pro in our forum.

If you are interested what the next version will bring, have a look at the thread. As always, we welcome all comments.