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Customizer XP is an integrated suite of programs that can help you to tweak your Windows 2000/XP to its fullest potential performance or just keep it running like new. It offers a wide range possibility to customize and optimize your Windows program. Whether you want to tweak your Windows registry, cleanup your harddisk, or increase your multimedia and 3D games performance, Customizer XP will does it all for you!

New in v1.6 (beta 2):

• Improved the Process Manager tool


• Improved the Startup Manager tool


• Added "Create Shortcut" tool


• Added "Special Folder Info" tool


• Added option to rebuilt Windows icons (Registry Tweak->Miscellaneous)

News source: Tweak Now!
Download: Customizer XP v1.6 (beta 2) - 1.35MB

In December, the ethics board of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium -- the not-for-profit corporation that created the certification program in 1989 -- verified Merchant's three years of pubescent work experience, and granted him the CISSP credential. A frankly flabbergasted review board member told Merchant in an email that the investigation had been prompted by the organization's desire to "maintain the stature of the certification."

"I don't have the statistics handy, but I suspect the median age of CISSPs is over 30," wrote Bill Cambell in the email. "The certification was never conceived as something within reach of teenagers!"

"Obviously he's very extraordinary, and he seems to be very sincere about his interest in information security and going somewhere in the industry," says consortium spokesman Mike Kilroy. "We really congratulate him on his achievement."

In addition to the $450 test fee, the young security pro will now be responsible for annual dues, and is bound to the earnest CISSP code of ethics -- a kind of Ten Commandments of computer security work that includes such injunctions as "protect society," "act honestly" and "advance and protect the profession."

Merchant, who plans to attend a university when he graduates high school, will also have to renew his CISSP certification in three years, and retake the exam -- which he describes as challenging but "too theoretical." "There should be more practical knowledge," says Merchant. By then, he'll be nineteen years old, and may even have a driver's license to show at the door.