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121. Adding the My Computer Security ZoneHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\0\Flags By default, there are four zones in IE that you may customize: Internet, Local intranet, Trusted Sites, and Restricted Sites. Change the value above from 33 to 1. You’ll now have a new My Computer zone. 122. Increase Icon Cache SizeHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explore r\ Max Cached Icons Have you ever seen your icons change from the proper icon to one for another program? This happens because the icon cache is full. You can change the number of icons that are cached in this registry key. This REG_SZ value represents the number of icons that will be cached. The default is 500. If you find that your icons are changing often, increase this number to a maximum of 2000. 123. Disable IE’s Clicking Sound When You Click On A LinkHKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating\.current Delete this key to stop IE from playing the clicking sound every time you click on a link. 124. Change Default Wallpaper FolderHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WallPaperDi r Set this to the location where your desktop wallpaper will be found on this computer. 125. Hide Windows 2000/XP Places BarHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\co mdlg32\NoPlacesBar This DWORD value should be set to 1 to hide the places bar in the Open/Save dialog box. 126. Edit Windows 2000/XP Default Places BarThis comes from a Windows FAQ newsletter:You can modify the five default quick links in the Open and Save common dialog boxesby performing the following steps: 1. Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe). 2. Navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ comdlg32 subkey. (If this subkey doesn’t exist, select New, Key from the Edit menu to create it.) 3. From the Edit menu, select New, Key. 4. Enter a name ofPlacesbarand press Enter. 5. Navigate to the new registry subkey. You can create five entries (i.e., Place0, Place1, Place2, Place3, and Place4). Make each entry either a string value (REG_SZ) entry (for a named folder) or a DWORD value (REG_DWORD) entry (for a special folder, such as My Documents or My Network Places). 6. To create a new entry, go to the Edit menu, select New, DWORD value or New, String Value (as appropriate), enter a name of Placen (e.g., Place0, Place4), and press Enter. 7. Double-click the entry and set its REG_SZ "Value data" to a path and folder name or its REG_DWORD "Value data" to a numeric ID (the table below shows a partial list of these numeric IDs--the shlobj.h file, which is part of the platform software development kit (SDK), defines the full list of special numeric IDs). 8. Close the registry editor. This change will not affect applications within the Microsoft Office suite but will affect applications, such as Notepad and Microsoft Paint, that use the Open and Save common dialog boxes. Each new entry you add will replace one of the default quick links. ID Pathway 0 Desktop 1 Internet Explorer 2 Start Menu\Programs 3 My Computer\Control Panel 4 My Computer\Printers 5 My Documents 6 <user name>\Favorites 7 Start Menu\Programs\Startup 8 <user name>\Recent 9 <user name>\SendTo a <desktop>\Recycle Bin b <user name>\Start Menu c Logical "My Documents" desktop icon d "My Music" folder e "My Videos" folder 10 <user name>\Desktop 11 My Computer 12 Network Neighborhood (My Network Places) 13 <user name>\Nethood 14 Windows\Fonts 16 All Users\Start Menu 17 All Users\Start Menu\Programs 18 All Users\Startup 19 All Users\Desktop 1a <user name>\Application Data 1b <user name>\PrintHood 1c <user name>\Local Settings\Application Data (nonroaming) 0x001d // nonlocalized startup 1e Nonlocalized common startup 1f Common favorites 20 Internet cache 21 Cookies 22 History 23 All Users\Application Data 24 GetWindowsDirectory() 25 GetSystemDirectory() 26 C:\Program Files 27 C:\Program Files\My Pictures 28 USERPROFILE 29 x86 system directory on RISC 2a x86 C:\Program Files on RISC 2b C:\Program Files\Common 2c x86 Program Files\Common on RISC 2d All Users\Templates 2e All Users\Documents 2f All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools 30 <user name>\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools 31 Network and Dial-up Connections 35 All Users\My Music 36 All Users\My Pictures 37 All Users\My Video 38 Resource Directory 39 Localized Resource Directory 3a All Users OEM-specific applications 3b USERPROFILE\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CD Burning 127. Reinstalling Internet Explorer 6.0HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383}\IsInstalled. This DWORD should be set to 0 to trick Windows into thinking that IE 6 isn’t installed 128. Reinstall Outlook Express 6.0HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\InstalledComponents\{44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}\IsInstalled. This DWORD should be set to 0 to trick Windows into thinking that OE 6 isn’t installed 129. Show Which Domain a PC Is Logging In ToHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Network\Logon\DomainLogonMessage This DWORD value should be set to 1 to show which domain a computer is logging in to. Setting the value to 0 will disable the message. 130. Find BIOS Information in the RegistryHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\SystemBiosDate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\SystemBiosVersio n HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\VideoBiosDate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\VideoBiosVersion Some information about your BIOS may be in the keys above. Do not change these values. They are for reference only. 131. Disable Internet Explorer Advanced TabHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel\AdvancedTab Setting this to 1 will stop this tab from appearing. Change it to 0 or delete it to have the tab reappear. 132. Display the local Administrator account on the Windows XP Welcome screen?HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList\Administrator This DWORD value should be set to 1 to show the account. Set it to 0 to hide the account 133. Tweak the registry to disable the Shut Down buttonHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ShutdownWithoutLogon This value should be set to 0 to force users to logon before they shut down the computer. 134. Disable Low Disk Warnings in Windows XPHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Adva nced\NoLowDiskSpaceChecks Settings this to 1 will stop the OS from checking for disk space, which will also turn of the Low Disk Space balloons. 135. Disable 8.3 characters names on NTFS partitionsHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisa ble8dot3NameCreation Set this DWORD value to 1 to stop NTFS systems from creating 8.3 character filenames. 136. Disable multi-user editing in Microsoft Word 2002HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Word\Options\NoPromptTo ForkDocuments Set this DWORD value to 1 to disable multi-user editing 137. Disable the search assistant in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 6.0HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Use Search Asst Settings this to NO will disable the search assistant 138. Disable the Windows Explorer search assistant in Windows XPHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Cabi netState\Use Search Asst Setting this String value to NO will disable the search assistant 139. Edit registry to read all e-mail as plain textHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Options\Mail\Read AsPlain Set this DWORD value to 1 will force Outlook XP SP1 to read all email as Plain Text. 140. Overwrite Deleted Information in Microsoft Outlook 2000/2002HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\PST (subkey for Outlook 2002) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\PST (subkey for Outlook 2000) Set the DWORD value PSTNullFreeOnClose to 1 to instruct Outlook to remove the deleted data every time you close the application, then click OK
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