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Chapter 5

00010.jpgRegistry Hacks

 

Tips and tricks to customize your Registry

 

Not it’s time to have a little fun. I going to throw in some cool little hacks for Windows XP and Vista

 

Hacks For XP and Vistanot all may work on Vista

 

Please back up your registry before attempting these

 

(1)Renaming you’re my computer icon

 

Hkey_classes_root\cslid\20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309

 

Rename localizedstring value localizedstring.old

 

Right click and choose create expandable string value

 

Value data= %Your Windows USERNAME% on %The NAME you want%

 

Effective after reboot
(2)Listing Your Favorites in Alphabetical order

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Favorites

 

Delete the favorites key and reboot
(3) Force Internet Explorer to run full screen (this is a 2 step process)
Step 1:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console

 

Find value full screen and change it to a 1 instead of 0

 

Step 2:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Main

 

create a string value and name it full screen

 

Type is Yes in the Value date
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(4) Settling down Windows Vista’s User Control
This is one of my favorites. This disables alerts for administrators. This keeps the UAC from popping up every time you run a program but at the same time keeps the important protection measures intact.
Some programs might not like this but that’s ok because you can always change it back

Pull up this key

 

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin

 

Change this value to 0 (you can re-enable it with a 2)

Hacks for Faster PerformanceCareful with this one!! Find the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] There are several entries in here you can tweak

ForegroundLockTimeout:
This is the time, the system keeps applications from moving into the background after you are done with them.To speed this up change value to: 00000000

MenuShowDelay
This will speed up the start menu Try 300 to 400

WaitToKillAppTimeou t
This one effects shutdown. This is how long the system waits for user processes to end before logging off.
Try 4000 -5000

Hungapptimeout
This one relates to selecting end task on a process. It controls the time it takes for the program to shutdown
Recommended setting: 4000

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