Prevent drive letters from appearing under the Send to menu.
1. Click Start, type REGEDIT and press ENTER
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then Software
then Microsoft
then Windows
then CurrentVersion
then Policies
then Explorer
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Hack for finding movies using Google.
Type the following into Google Search. Replace Movie Name with the name of the movie you would like to search for.
-inurl:htm -inurl:html -inurl:php intitle:”index of” (mpg|mov|avi|wmv) “Movie Name“
Disable the annoying Welcome Center that appears in Windows Vista.
1. Click START–>RUN and type REGEDIT. Click OK.
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_USER
then SOFTWARE
then Microsoft
then Windows
then CurrentVersion
then Run
3. Right-click on the WindowsWelcomeCenter key and select Delete.
Enable or disable the glass effects in Windows Vista.
1. Click on the start button and key in regedit and hit Enter.
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then Software
then Microsoft
then Windows
then DWM
3. Set Composition to 1 and CompositionPolicy to 2 to enable glass effects.
Set Composition to 0 and CompositionPolicy to 1 to disable glass effects.
4. From a command prompt type net stop uxsms. Then type net start uxsms also at command
Speed up Internet Explorer with this registry hack. It will increase the maximum connections per server.
1. Click START–>RUN and type REGEDIT. Click OK.
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then SOFTWARE
then Microsoft
then Windows
then CurrentVersion
then Internet Settings
Double click on the value MaxConnectionsPerServer and change it to a value of 10
Do the same thing for the value MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server. Give it a value of 10 as well.
Internet Explorer will now be faster because it can have up to 16 open connections per server.
You can temporarily disable the Windows Vista activation prompt for 30 more days by using this method.
Wait until you have 1 day left to activate Windows Vista, then perform these steps.
1. Click START–>RUN
2. Type sysprep /generalize
You then will not be prompted to activate Windows Vista for another 30 days. You can do this with each copy of Windows Vista up to 3 times.
Credit for this tip can be found here.
Stop other applications from placing a popup window in your way while working. This setting will prevent this from happening.
1. Click START–>RUN and type REGEDIT. Click OK.
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then Control Panel
then Desktop
3. Change the DWORD value for ForegroundLockTimeout to 00030d40
How to fix the problem when your Administrative Tools folder is empty and contains no icons to click on.
1. Click START–>RUN and type REGEDIT. Click OK.
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
then SOFTWARE
then Microsoft
then Windows
then CurrentVersion
then Explorer
then User Shell Folders
3. Delete the value named Common Administrative Tools
4. Open Shell Folders under the Explorer tree. Delete the value named Common Administrative Tools there also.
Disable the message from appearing warning you that “The Publisher Could Not Be Verified” when you run certain files.
1. Click Start–>Run and type gpedit.msc. Click OK
2. Go to User Configuration–>Administrative Templates–>Windows Components–>Attachment Manager
3. Add “*.exe” to the “Inclusion list for moderate risk file types” setting. You can also add other file types.
This should disable the “Publisher Could Not Be Verified” messages from appearing for that file type in the future.
This tip was based on tips from the link below:
http://blog.davestechshop.net/archive/2006/10/30/IE7PublisherCouldNotBeVerified.aspx
Enable or disable the warning message that says the following:
You are running out of disk space on [drive]. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here.
1. Click START–>RUN and type REGEDIT. Click OK.
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then SOFTWARE
then Microsoft
then Windows
then CurrentVersion
then Policies
then Explorer
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Enable or disable the ability for Windows to clear recent docs on logoff.
1. Click START–>RUN and type REGEDIT. Click OK.
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then SOFTWARE
then Microsoft
then Windows
then CurrentVersion
then Policies
then Explorer
3. Double-click on ClearRecentDocsOnExit if it exists.
If it doesn’t, right-click on ADVANCED and Select NEW–>DWORD VALUE and name it ClearRecentDocsOnExit
4. Set this value to 1 to enable the Windows to clear docs when logging off.
Set this value to 0 to disable the Windows to clear docs when logging off.
The mysterious Windows XP Start button…why is it there? How did it get it’s name? Why is it so green? But most asked question of all is “How can I screw it up?”. There are many articles on the internet about this, however many of them are incomplete, difficult or unsafe. You will now learn exactly how to change “start” to whatever you like and even change the picture next to it.
Remove the branding that some ISP’s like AOL add to the title bar in Internet Explorer.
1. Close out of Internet Explorer.
2. Click START–>RUN
3. Type RUNDLL32.EXE IEdkcs32.dll,Clear
This should clear out the branding the next time you run Internet Explorer
Registry hack to force Windows to sort the Start Menu alphabetically.
1. Click START–>RUN and type REGEDIT
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then SOFTWARE
then Microsoft
then Windows
then CurrentVersion
then Explorer
then MenuOrder
Right-click Start Menu and DELETE the key.
Now the Start Menu should always sort alphabetically.
If applications are not responding during the Windows shut down process, it will prompt you to “End Task” instead of completing the shut down process.
You will need to play with the AutoEndTasks value in the registry.
1. Click START–>RUN and type REGEDIT. Click OK.
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then Control Panel
then Desktop
3. Double-Click the AutoEndTasks value.
4. Set it to 1 to automatically end tasks at shut down or restart.
Set it to 0 to disable automatically ending tasks at shut down or restart.
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