Met xpy is het mogelijk om een aantal features in Windows 2000, Windows XP en Windows Server 2003 uit te schakelen die eventueel een security threat kunnen vormen. Het betreft hier onder andere RPC/DCOM en LMHash onderdelen die standaard geactiveerd zijn. Daarnaast kan het programma verschillende tweaks toepassen voor Windows. De ontwikkelaar heeft onlangs versie 0.9.1 de deur uitgedaan met de volgende aanpassingen:
Version 0.9.1:Version 0.9
- added new features
- disable thumbnail caching
- disable net crawling
- added version information
- added preliminary minixpy support to sourcecode
- added support for non-silent batch files
- fixed batch-mode
- added new features
- disable search assistant (internet explorer)
- import music as mp3 (windows media player)
- disable drm for imported music (windows media player)
- integrate command prompt into shell
- enable command prompt completion
- integrate notepad into shell
- disable autorun
- disable search assistant
- disable task grouping
- use classic start menu
- show contents of barricaded folders
- show hidden files and folders
- show all file extensions
- display full path in title bar (explorer)
- use windows classic theme
- delete files
- added upx compression
- added xpyhelper.dll (written by oliver schneider)
- added warning-message for irrevocable settings
- added warning-message for the selection of all settings
- added version-number to xpy.ini and batch files
- added backward compatibility
- added website button to help dialog ("xpy.exe /?")
- moved UsabBalloonTips to usability group
- moved UsabDiskSpace to usability group
- modified automatic detection of features
- modified sourcecode structure
- modified icon and checkboxes (smaller!)
- modified gui and colors
- removed translations (except english, german, japanese and polish)