Change the background of Windows Media Player: Windows Media Player provides the option to change the background is not perfect, but we have to follow these steps to change the background of Windows Media Player So, the problem is not to change it through the registry in Windows 7 is the trick: 1) Go to run and "Regedit" type registry editor will open. 2) the registry editor, locate the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ MediaPlayer \ Preferences 3) Click on the key LibraryBackgroundImage 0 6 (no background in each data) between the value of the double.
1. Disable the Autorun Option in your CD Rom Drive:
Open your Registry and navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\currentcontrolset\services\cdrom"
Change the value of 'Autorun', or create a new DWORD value if it doesn't already exist, and set the value as '0' for Autorun disabled.
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2. Disable the Harddisk Lowdiskspace warning in Windows XpUser Key: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer"
and
System Key: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer"
create a new DWORD 'NoLowDiskSpaceChecks' and change its value to '1'.
___________________________________________________________________ 3. Disable the Windows Key
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\urrentcontrolset\control\keybo ard layout"
Create a new Binary value, or modify the existing value called 'Scancode Map' as shown below.
Value: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 5B E0 00 00 5C E0 00 00 00 00
___________________________________________________________________ 4. View System BIOS Information: Open Registry and navigate to
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\hardware\description\system"
___________________________________________________________________ 5. Change the Title of Windows Media Player
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\policies\microsoft\windows medi aplayer\"
Create a new string value called ' TitleBar' and change text as your wish.
___________________________________________________________________ 6. Disable Internet access in Network
Open Registry and make the following changes
"HKEY_CURRENT_User\software\microsoft\windows\currentversi on\internetsettings\"
Change the value of "Proxyenabled" to 1 and change the value of "proxyserver" and set it to an ip address. Change the value of the ip address and port to "10.0.0.1:5555"
___________________________________________________________________ 7. Disable the ability to Right click on the desktop
"HKEY_CURRENT_User\software\microsoft\windows\currentv ersi on\policies\explorer\"
Create a DWORD "NoViewContextMenu" and change its value to "0" for disabling and "1" for enabling.
___________________________________________________________________ 8. Hide all items on desktop
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentv ersi on\policies\explorer\"
and
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentvers ion\ policies\explorer\"
create a new DWORD "NoDesktop" and change its value to "1"
You can show all the items in the desktop by chaning the value to "0"
___________________________________________________________________ 9. Disable the "Change Password" button in windows
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ Curr entVersion\Policies\System"
and
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows \Cur rentVersi on\Policies\System"
Create a new DWORD "DisableChangePassword" and change its value to "0" for disabling and "1" for enabling.
___________________________________________________________________ 10. Disable the "cancel" button or pressing the "Esc" key while logging on to Windows"
"HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Window s\Cu rrentVersion\Run"
Create a new string value "NoLogon" and change its value to "RUNDLL32 shell32,SHExitWindowsEx 0"
___________________________________________________________________ 11. Remove "Log off" from start menu
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer"
and
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows \Cur rentVersion\Policies\Explorer"
Create a new DWORD "NoLogOff" and change its value to "1" for disabling and "0" for enabling. ___________________________________________________________________ 12. Clear the Recent playlist in Media Player
Navigate to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPla yer\ Player"
And clear the "RecentFileList" subkey.
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13. Empty temporary Internet files on exit (in Internet Explorer)
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ Curr entVersion\Internet Settings\Cache"
and
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows \Cur rentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache"
Create a new DWORD "Persistent" and change the value to "0" for emptying and "1" to remove this option. ___________________________________________________________________
14. Clear the Internet Explorere typed addresses history
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs"
And delete the subkeys. ___________________________________________________________________
15. Remove recent documents from start menu
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer"
and
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows \Cur rentVersion\Policies\Explorer"
Create a new DWORD "NoRecentDocsMenu" and change its value to "1". ___________________________________________________________________
16. Remove Network connections from start menu
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer"
and
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows \Cur rentVersion\Policies\Explorer"
Create a new DWORD "NoNetworkConnections" and change its value to "1".
17. Remove My documents from start menu
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer"
and
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows \Cur rentVersion\Policies\Explorer"
Create a new DWORD "NoSMMyDocs" and change its value to "1".
18. Remove My pictures from start menu
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer"
and
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows \Cur rentVersion\Policies\Explorer "
Create a new DWORD "NoSMMyPictures" ad change its value to "1".
19. Remove My music fro start menu
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer"
and
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows \Cur rentVersion\Policies\Explorer"
Create a new DWORD "NoStartMenuMyMusic" and change its value to "1".
20. Reboot windows after crash
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\C ontr ol\CrashControl"
Create a new DWORD "AutoReboot" and change its value to "1".Restart the machine for the effect to take place.
21. Disable the use of MSDos
User Key: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ Curr entVersion\Policies\WinOldApp"
and
System Key: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows \Cur rentVersion\Policies\WinOldApp"
Create a new DWORD "Disabled" and set its value to "1". Change it to "0" for enabling.
22. Enable Directory completion in MSDos prompt
User Key: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor
and
System Key: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor"
Create a new DWORD "PathCompletionChar " and set it to equal the hex value of the required control character.
23. Quick edit the command prompt
User Key: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console"
and
System Key: "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Console"
Create a new DWORD "QuickEdit" and set its value to "1" for enabling and "0" for disabling.
24. Disable Registry editing
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ Curr entVersion\Policies\System"
Create a new DWORD "DisableRegistryTools" and change its value to "0" for allowing Regeditand "1" for disabling it.
25. Disable task scheduler
" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServices"
Delete the value from "SchedulingAgent". Usually its value is set to "'mstask.exe".
26. Remove My computer from desktop and start menu
User Key: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ Curr entVersion\Policies\NonEnum"
and
System Key: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows \Cur rentVersion\Policies\NonEnum"
Create "{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}" and change its value to "1" for removing. Change its value to "0" for showing.
27. Show Windows version on desktop
User Key: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop"
Create a new DWORD " PaintDesktopVersion" and change its value to "1" for showing and "0" for removing.
28. Remove My documenst from desktop
Windows 95, 98 and Me
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{450 D8FB A-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\ShellFolder"
Windows NT, 2000 and XP
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ Curr entVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\ShellFolder"
Modify the value called "Attributes" as "0xf0500174" to hide or "0xf0400174" to show.
29. Disable Scan disk after improper shutdown
" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\FileSystem"
create a new DWORD "DisableScandiskOnBoot" and change its value to "01" for disablng and "00" for enabling.
30. Automatically end Hung programs.
" HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop"
and
"System Key: [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop"
Modify the value of "AutoEndTasks" to "1".
Optimise The System Cache
Desktop systems are normally optimised for applications, and servers for file caching. Depending on how you use your system, you may want to optimise your system for either.
Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
Find the setting LargeSystemCache. Set this DWORD value to 1 for server behaviour or to 0 for desktop behaviour.
Some programs such as SQL Server and Exchange Server set this value during installation and override the change.
Optimisation Of The Boot Files Normal file fragmentation scatters the pieces of a file all over your hard disk. This also affectsthe files that load at boot time. You can defragment the files that load at startup to enable faster loading.
Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction
A setting called Enable under this key needs to be set Y(for Yes). This setting defragments the boot files, & it might relocate startup files into contiguous clusters on the volume, reducing themovement of the disk head when regarding the volume. With the setting at the Y, boot file optimisationoccuer automatically if the system is idle for 10 minutes. A reboot is required for the change to take effect.
Control Master File Table Zone Reservation On NTFS-enabled XP systems, you can control the amount of space allocated to the MFT. The MFT contains reference entries to all the files on the system. This can get fragmented over time and affect system performance.Use this to allocate sufficient space for the MFT. Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
Modify NtfsMftZoneReservation to a value between 1 and 4. A value of 2 is good enough. However, in this day of humongous hard disks, a better bet would be to set it at 4.
To be completely effective, this setting should be specified at the time the volume is formatted.
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Load Kernel Into RAM In Windows 98, programs could be loaded and kept in RAM for as long as you wanted. You could even load a video clip into RAM directly and have it play from there! XP is much more restrictive, mostly due to security reasons. But when it comes to the Windows XP kernel, there's something you can do. By default, XP only loads the required parts of the kernel into RAM at boot time, and calls the other parts as and when needed. Having the entire kernel available in memory speeds up processing.
Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Memory Management
Set the value of the DisablePagingExecutive key to 1. This will make the entire kernel be loaded in memory. A reboot is required. Only use this if you have sufficient memory. Recommended: 512 MB or more. Also, this may affect some programs that use the Windows swap file directly, such as Adobe Photoshop.
The Windows prefetcher aims to load applications faster by "prefetching" the application & storing it in the prefetch cache. You can speed up applications loading by changing the default valueof one the setting under the relevant key.
Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\MemoryManagement\PrefetchParameters
The default value for the EnablePrefetcher settu=ing is 3. Change it to 5 to make faster applications loading.
You can experiment with higher values upto 9.
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters] "EnablePrefetcher"=dword:00000007
& save as
filename-> load applicationfaster.reg
filetype-> all files
Edit The Startup Programs List
Many of the programs that start up at boot time do not figure in the Startup folder. If you want to stop more than one application from loading at bootup, you will normally need to go
and turn off the preference in each application one by one. Tedious and time consuming. This can help you do this in one go.
Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
And to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
All the programs that load at boot time will be specified under these two keys. Review the applications listed in this list and delete all the entries you don't want started up at boot time. Next
bootup, they'll be gone.
Be careful not to delete needed programs such as anti-virus.
Disable Thumbnail Caching
One of Explorer's features is to display a thumbnail of images and the first frame of the video when seen in Thumbnail view. Explorer can either create it when you access the folder or fetch it
from the thumbnail cache. Fetching thumbnails from the cache is significantly faster, but will consume a lot of hard disk space, especially if your system is chock-full of images and video.
Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Set the DWORD Value DisableThumbnailCache to 1 if you are low on hard disk space. Otherwise, it makes sense to leave it at zero—the thumbnail cache can indeed be useful.
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Disable User Tracking
Useless to most users—except perhaps for system administrators—XP's inbuilt user tracking system uses up precious resources.
The system keeps track of the programs run by a user, the paths followed, and the documents used. (Did you know your XP was spying on you all this while?) Disable this to free up system resources.
Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Set the DWORD NoInstrumentation to 1. This will disable most of the user tracking features of XP.
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Disable The Desktop Cleanup Wizard
By default the Desktop Cleanup Wizard runs every 60 days to clean up unused shortcuts and other desktop items. Do you need this over-friendly tool? At any rate, you don't want it to run automatically.
Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\Desktop\CleanupWiz
Modify the DWORD Value called NoRun to 0, or to 1 to bring back the poor Wizard if you begin to pity it.
Automatic Window Refresh Normally, there is a small delay after some information changes before it reflects in the GUI. If you need to see the information right away, you would need to press [F5]. The following will enable the system to do faster updates.
Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Update
For faster updates, change the DWORD value called UpdateMode to 0. The default is 1.
A reboot will be required for the changes to take effect. Note that there is a likelihood of conflict if this setting is applied with system policies running: the UpdateMode value is used by system policies to Disable, Automatically or Manually check for a connection to the NETLOGON share of a domain controller. Change it back to the default if you are running system policies or are connected to a domain controller.
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The Registry has to be one of the least understood aspects of the Windowsoperating system family. Even seasoned professionals approach it with a degree of caution, knowing that a wrong entry can potentially wreak havoc on the system. To understand the Registry is to get to the heart of controlling and modifying your Windows system. With a detailed understanding of what you are doing, you can turn your machine into a lean performance machine, customise and personalise its appearance, and get fine-grained control over nearly every aspect of how Windows XP behaves.
HKEY_LCASSES_ROOT contains all the information related to the fundamental aspects of the windows user interface, file association mapping for drag & drop functionality, shortcuts, & OLE(Object Linking & Embedding) information.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER contains all the information related to the current user logged into the system includung such things as Desktop setting, logon names, & other user specific information.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE contains all the information regarding to the hardware, software, & other PC-specific preferences that are common to all the users who log into the machine
HKEY_USERS contains all the information related to specific preferences of individual users, who are each identified by a unique security identifier called SID. This SID is unique for life of system.
HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG contains all the information gatherd when the computer boots up, & is coppied & merged in from portions of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES relevand to the current hardware profile. This information is not stored: it is regenrated every time the computer starts up.
Value Types
there are 3 major types: DWORD, Binary, String.
REG_DWORD is ussually used for boolean values & is a 4-byte number.UpdateMode have a setting of either 0 (disabled) or 1 (enabled).
REG_BINARYis used to store the information as raw binary data, & is usually used for hardware components.
REG_SZ is the standard string for to display human readable text.
REG_EXPAND_SZ is an expandable data string that permits storing of variables that can be replaced by actual values by the application called key.
Creating & Using .Reg files
The .reg file is actually a text file which will open in any editor like notepad. It uses specific syntax that the registry recognizes. Following the rules of syntax you can creat .reg files
RegistryEditorVersion
blank line
[RegistryPath1]
"DataItemName1"="DataType1:DataValue1"
"DataItemName2"="DataType2:DataValue2"
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[RegistryPath2]
"DataItemName3"="DataType3:DataValue3"
For windows XP & Windows 2000
RegistryEditorVersion is Registry Editor Version 5.0
For Windows 98 & NT
RegistryEditorVersion is Registry Editor Version 4.0
Third Party Registry Editors
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RegEditX(with Registry Crawler)
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