Settings
Apply tweaks, policies, and service configurations.
The Settings page groups configurable tweaks, policies, services, visual effects, and event tracing into separate tabs, each a list you can adjust before applying.
Change an option by double-clicking the row, picking a value from the drop-down on the right, or pressing the first letter of the value while the row is selected. Modified rows show a reset icon and a count appears next to the owning tab.
The search box filters every Settings tab as you type, hiding tabs left with no results, and the Show drop-down narrows the list to All, Default (unchanged), Modified, or Preset (rows whose value comes from a loaded preset, offered only while one is loaded). The two service tabs add template and start-state axes of their own, covered on the Services page. Ribbon buttons reset, expand, or collapse the current tab.
Favorites
The landing tab: a short, flat list of the settings people reach for most, gathered from the other tabs. It is a second view of those rows, not a copy - change one here and the row on its home tab carries the same value, which is also where its change count is counted. The tab hides itself on an image whose settings produce no shortlist, and Tweaks becomes the landing tab instead.
Baselines and Reset
A row that differs from what the image carries is marked in the left margin, and a collapsed group carries the mark for changes folded inside it, so nothing hides under a closed group. The reset icon on the row undoes that change.
With a preset loaded there are two baselines rather than one, so reset asks which: Image returns the row to what the image itself carries, and Preset returns it to the value the preset set. Resetting a group offers the same choice for everything under it. A row still sitting on its preset value reads Preset when you hover its name, which is also what the Show drop-down's Preset entry lists.
Tweaks
The main tab lists registry tweaks and group policies sorted into expandable categories. Each row applies a known-good registry change to the image, and a value differing from the image default (or the loaded preset) is flagged so you can reset it individually or reset the whole tab at once.
A Security category collects the security-related rows that used to be spread across System, Defender and Privacy, with the User Account Control group sitting under it. The originals did not multiply, they moved.
Visuals
Appearance and rendering options, mirroring the Windows Performance Options dialog (sysdm.cpl). Grouped into:
- Visual Effects - System - animations, shadows, transparency and the other per-effect toggles.
- Pointer Options - cursor behavior such as pointer trails and snap-to.
- Theme - theme-related appearance settings.
- Other - additional graphics and rendering rows.
A template picker sets the whole Visual Effects group at once: Default, Appearance (best appearance), Performance (best performance), or Custom when you change individual effects.
Services and Extra Services
The two service tabs list the Windows services carried by the image and let you set a start type on each one, with templates, tied components, and setup-protected rows of their own - see the Services page.
Events
Controls early-boot and logging telemetry that the other pages don't cover:
- AutoLogger tracing - event tracing sessions that record events early in the boot process. Disabling a session also disables the dependent Event Viewer channel or functionality.
- Event Viewer channels - enable or disable collection of a specific Event Viewer channel.
Each group on this tab carries its own three-way switch on the group row, setting every entry under it in one click: off, default (back to what the image carries), or on. While the entries in a group do not all agree, the switch shows no position, which is the honest reading of a mixed group. Rows that only have two states are left alone by a click on default.
Some sessions cannot be disabled while a component is still protecting them, such as DiagTrack and Defender.