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Adding
the My Computer Security Zone
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HKEY_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.
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Increase
Icon Cache Size
HKEY_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.
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Disable
IE’s Clicking Sound When You Click On A Link
HKEY_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.
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Change
Default Wallpaper Folder
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WallPaperDir
Set this to the location where your desktop wallpaper
will be found on this computer.
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Hide
Windows 2000/XP Places Bar
HKEY_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.
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You
can modify the five default quick links in the Open and Save
common dialog boxes by
performing the following steps:
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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 of
Placesbar
and
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
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Reinstalling
Internet Explorer 6.0
HKEY_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
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Reinstall
Outlook Express 6.0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active
Setup\Installed
Components\{44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}\IsInstalled.
This DWORD should be set to 0 to trick Windows into
thinking that OE 6 isn’t installed
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Show
Which Domain a PC Is Logging In To
HKEY_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.
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Find
BIOS Information in the Registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\SystemBiosDate
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\SystemBiosVersion
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.
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Disable
Internet Explorer Advanced Tab
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HKEY_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.
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Display
the local Administrator account on the Windows XP Welcome
screen?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\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
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Tweak
the registry to disable the Shut Down button
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ShutdownWithoutLogon
This value should be set to 0 to force users to logon
before they shut down the computer.
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Disable
Low Disk Warnings in Windows XP
HKEY_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
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Disable
8.3 characters names on NTFS partitions
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisa
ble8dot3NameCreation
Set this DWORD value to 1 to stop NTFS systems from
creating 8.3 character filenames
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Disable
multi-user editing in Microsoft Word 2002
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Word\Options\NoPromptTo
ForkDocuments
Set this DWORD value to 1 to disable multi-user editing
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Disable
the search assistant in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 6.0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main\Use Search Asst
Settings
this to NO will disable the search assistant
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Disable
the Windows Explorer search assistant in Windows XP
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Cabi
netState\Use
Search Asst
Setting this String value to NO will disable the search
assistant
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Edit
the registry to read all e-mail as plain text
HKEY_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.
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Overwrite
Deleted Information in Microsoft Outlook 2000/2002
HKEY_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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