This info is especially useful to system administrators, but other power users should find this useful. Periodically Microsoft releases Hot Fixes to patch bugs in Windows and other products, this key contains information about which Hot fixes have been installed.
This little tweak will give a slight performance boost, but at a cost. It moves the kernel of Windows XP into speedier RAM. Give it a try, and report back here any gains you experience.
Create a new DWORD value for each of the optional values above depending on which Run function to stop and set the value to “1” to disable. Restart Windows for change to take effect.
Create a new Binary value, or modify the existing value, called ”Scancode Map” and edit the value according to the settings below.
There are files out there, on your hard drive, that don’t have extensions. This means there is no default application to open these files with. Being a geek, however, you want to see what’s inside.
Sometimes you may want to disable to the shutdown of a system, such as a kiosk or a mission critical computer. With the below registry tweak, the shutdown command will be disabled. To re-enable the shutdown command, simply change the 1 to a 0 (zero).
This registry tweak will allow you to toggle the Internet Explorer popup blocker. By extrapolating the information here, you can actually control popups in other programs as well, such as MSN Messenger, Windows Explorer, and others. This hack has been tested on Windows XP SP2 and SP3, but not Vista. You can try with Vista, but your mileage… Read More »
The default behavior for XP is to save the desktop configuration on exiting the operating system. To prevent saving the desktop configuration, make the following registry edit:
This tweak prevents the system beeps from being audible without altering any other audio settings.
Windows stores the location of per-user special folders under the following registry key: