Registry Tips |
Compacting the Registry -
Added 4/5/97
Changing Exchange's Mailbox Location
- Added 3/29/97
Removing Sound Events from Control
Panel / Sounds - Added 3/16/97
Changing the Registered Owner -
Added 2/6/97
Adding an Application to Every Folder -
Added 1/30/97
Adding Explore From Here to
Every Folder - Added 1/30/97
Saving Desktop Settings - Submitted
1/11/97
Getting Rid of Tips - Submitted 1/2/97
Getting Rid of Schemes - Submitted 1/2/97
Changing the Location of Windows95's
Installation Files - Added 12/18/96
Creating a Network Logon Banner -
Submitted 12/7/96
Creating a Default File Opener - Added
11/29/96
Deleting Registry Keys from the Command Line
- Added 11/3/96
Restrictions without running Poledit
- Added 11/3/96
Automatic Screen Refresh - Added
10/24/96
Disable Password Caching - Added
10/19/96
Changing the MaxMTU and other Network Settings
- Added 10/19/96
Adding Items to the Start Button
- Added 10/17/96
Removing Open, Explore & Find from
Start Button - Added 9/15/96
Removing the InBox Icon and
Recycle Bin Icons from the Desktop - Added 9/8/96
Removing Items from NEW on the Desktop
- Added 7/28/96
Changing the Telnet Scroll-Back Buffer Size
Added 7/27/96
Changing the Tips of the Day -
Submitted 7/27/96
Disabling Drives in My Computer
- Added 7/24/96
Not Saving Settings on Exit - Added 7/21/96
Not Displaying the Network Neighborhood
- Added 7/21/96
Disabling Run or Find from the
Start Menu - Added 7/21/96
Hiding All Icons from the Desktop -
Added 7/21/96
Get Your Folders to Open the Way You Want
Every Time - Submitted 7/7/96
Modifying Default Desktop Icons -
Added 7/1/96
Disabling the Right-Click on the
Start Button - Added 6/29/96
Disabling My Computer - Added
6/29/96
Clearing the Documents Menu Automatically
- Added 6/2/96
Opening Explorer from My Computer
- Added 5/28/96
Fixing a Corrupt Registry - Added 5/12/96
Recycle Bin Edits - Submitted 5/2/96
Not Displaying the Last User Logged
on - Added 4/29/96
Setting the Minimum Password Length -
Added 4/29/96
Disabling File and Print Sharing - Added
4/29/96
Removing the Shortcut Arrows - Added
4/21/96
Turn Off Window Animation - Added
4/21/96
To speed up the Start Menu - Added 4/21/96
Changing your Modem's Initialization String
- Added 4/21/96
Increasing the Modem Timeout - Added
4/21/96
Removing Programs listed from the Control
Panel's Add/Remove Programs Section - Added 4/21/96
Specifying programs to run every time Windows95
starts - Added 4/21/96
Submitted 4/5/97
How to compact the registry?
First run Regedit and then export the entire Registry to COMPACT.REG.
Then exit regedit and run it again with the following switch. REGEDIT
/C COMPACT.REG
Submitted by Ian Buda
Added 3/29/97
When you create a mailbox in Exchange for e-mail, you specify
the file where you want to mail to go.
You cannot change this in Exchange afterwards.
If you want to change the file name or location::
Added 3/16/97
When you view what events you can assign sounds to from Control
Panel / Sounds,
you cannot delete the events themselves. In order to do that:
Added 2/6/97
Added 1/30/97
Here is how to add any application to the menu when you right
click on any Folder.
This could be useful if there is an app you always want available
and don't want to go through the Start menu
Now when you right click on any folder, you can have access to
that application
This will work for both Windows95 and NT 4.0
Added 1/30/97
Now when you right click on any folder, you can open up an
Explorer window of that folder.
This will work for both Windows95 and NT 4.0
Submitted 1/11/97
When I would go to Control Panel or Start Menu Programs, or
any other Desktop window setting; meaning size, position, icon
arrangement, they would never be as I set them.
I FOUND AN ANSWER: At
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
There is a "NoSaveSettings" key. I deleted it and now
my all my stuff stays where I tell it.
The same key shows up at:
[HKEY_USERS\bwil\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer](where
bwil is your password profile) Just thought I'd share this with
you all.
Submitted by Bud Allen
[email protected]
Remember those "Tips of the day" that appeared when
you first install Win95?
If you don't want them any longer and want to clear yet more
Clutter, approximately 5K, you can delete them at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \
CurrentVersion \ explorer \ Tips
Submitted by Bud Allen
[email protected]
When you right click on your desktop and pick properties your
Display Properties screen appears.
Under Appearance tab / Schemes, determine if you want all those
wild schemes.
If not they can be deleted and clear approximately 45K.
Before you delete them, choose or create at least 1 Scheme and
"Save As" (in my case Bud 1).
Submitted by Bud Allen
[email protected]
Added 12/18/96
If you need to change the drive and or path where Windows95 will look for it's installation files:
Submitted 12/7/96
If you want to create a Network Logon Banner:
Submitted by Frank Tanner
Added 11/29/96
If you have a un-registered file type and want to view it with
Explorer's Right-click
you can add your program to the right-click options by:
In this example, when you right click on a file in Explorer, NOTEPAD will show up as an option.
Added 113/96
With the OEM Version of Windows95, a new switch, /D, is added
to Regedit.
This enables you to delete items from Registry.
The syntax is: REGEDIT /L:system.dat_location
/R:user.dat_location /D Reg_Key
where Reg_Key is the key you want to delete
There are two requirements:
1. That you have to boot to the same OEM version of Windows95 as
the REGEDIT.EXE file.
2. You cannot be in Win95 at the time you use this switch.
Added 1103/96
If you want to make restrictions to what users can do without
having to running Poledit,
changes can be made directly to the Registry.
This will allow you to make a REG file with the specific
restrictions you want
and importing them all at once.
Added 10/24/96
When you make changes to your hard drive and use Explorer, the
changes are not usually displayed until you press the F5 key
To make the updates automatic:
Added 10/19/96
As in Windows for Workgroups, when logging on to an NT Domain,
it is preferable to disable password caching.
This allows for the single NT Domain login and eliminates
the secondary Windows logon screen.
It also eliminates the possibility of the respective passwords to
get out of sync.
To disable password caching on the workstation, a one-line
addition to the registry needs to be made.
To make the change, create a ASCII text file called DISABLE.REG
with the following lines:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Network]
"DisablePwdCaching"=dword:00000001
Open up a DOS box and type REGEDIT DISABLE.REG
You can also download the DISABLE.REG file.
If you need to re-enable password caching, download ENABLE.REG and repeat the process just with the different file name
Added 10/19/96
There are four network settings that can be configured so when
dialing to an ISP, you should get somewhat greater throughput.
They are the MaxMTU, MaxMSS and DefaultRcvWindow, and DefaultTTL
MaxMTU and MaxMSS
DefaultRcvWindows and DefaultTTL
Added 10/17/96
To add items when you right-click on the Start Button:
Added 9/15/96
When you right click on the Start Button, you can select Open,
Explore or Find.
Open shows your Programs folder. Explore starts the Explorer and
allows access to all drives.
Find allows you to search and then run programs. In certain
situations you might want to disable this feature.
To remove them:
Note: - When you remove Open, you cannot open any folders.
Added 7/27/96
When you right-click on the desktop and select New, a
list of default templates you can open up are listed.
To remove items from that list:
Added 7/27/96
By default, the Telnet session has a window size of 25 lines.
To increase this so you can scroll back
and look at a larger number on lines:
Submitted 7/27/96
You can edit the Tips of the day in the Registry by going to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \
CurrentVersion \ explorer \ Tips
Submitted by Jayme Johnston
[email protected]
Added 7/24/96
To turn off the display of local or networked drives when you click on My Computer:
Added 7/21/96
Added 7/21/96
Added 7/21/96
Added 7/21/96
Submitted 7/7/96
To get your folders to open the way you want every time:
Submitted by Dan Poplawski
[email protected]
Added 7/1/96
Below is a reference for the icons I've been able to figure out:
0 - Default Icon
1 - Default Document
2 - Application
3 - Closed Folder
4 - Open Folder
5 - 5 1/4 Drive
6 - 3 1/4 Drive
7 - Removable Drive
8 - Hard Drive
9 - Network Folder
10 - Network Offline
11 - CD
12 - RAM Drive
13 - Entire Nertwork
15 - My Computer
16 - Printer
17 - Network Neighborhood
18 - Network Workgroup
19-27 are the Start Menu icons
19 - Programs
20 - Desktop
21 - Settings
22 - Find
23 - Help
24 - Run
25 - Suspend
27 - Shutdown
28 - Share
29 - Shortcut
31 - Recycle Bin (Empty)
32 - Recycle Bin (Full)
33 - Folder, Dial-Up Networking
34 - Desktop
36 - Program Group
40 - Audio Card
In addition, you can change:
Added 6/2/96
The Documents Menu displays the last file and programs you
used. You can clear item manually but only through editing
the Registry can you turn this off automatically. This can be
useful on computers that are used by multiple people.
The same settings can be also used in NT 4.0
Your Documents Menu should now be blank. This will be for all subsequent users who logon as well.
Added 6/29/96
Normally, when you right button click on the Start
button, it allows you to open your programs folder, the Explorer
and run Find.
In situations where you don't want to allow users to be able to
do this in order to secure your computer.
Now when you right click on the Start button, nothing
should happen.
You can delete only those items that you need.
Note: - On Microsoft keyboards, this also disables the
Window-E (for Explorer) and Window-F (for Find) keys.
See the section on Installation
to see how to do this automatically during an install.
Added 6/29/96
In areas where you are trying to restrict what users can do on
the computer, it might be beneficial to disable the ability to
click on My Computer and have access to the drives, control panel
etc.
To disable this:
Now when you click on My Computer, nothing will happen.
You might want to export this section to a registry file before
deleting it just in case you want to enable it again..
See the section on Installation to see how to do this automatically during an install.
Added 5/28/96
You can change many of the icons that are located on your desktop.
Some of the additional items that can be searched for are:
Additional icons can be found in:
Added 5/28/96
By default, when you click on the My Computer icon, you get a display of all your drives, the Control Panel etc. If you would like to have this open the Explorer:
Added 5/12/96
If your registry has gotten corrupted, and re-installing
Windows95 over your existing version does not fix the problem,
there is a hidden, read-only, system file on the root of your
boot drive called SYSTEM.1ST.
This is the initial system registry created when you first
installed Windows95.
You will need to install your 32-bit apps and any other
programs or changes that modified your system registry
but you will not need to go through a new again. Your 16-bit apps
should not need to be re-installed since they do
not modify the registry. You will also retain your current
desktop configuration.
Submitted 5/2/96
Fooling with the recycle bin. Why not make the icon context menu act like other icon context menu's.
Add rename to the menu:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=hex:50,01,00,20
Add delete to the menu:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=hex:60,01,00,20
Add rename and delete to the menu:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=hex:70,01,00,20
Restore the recycle bin to win 95 defaults including
un-deleting the icon after deletion:
... Restore the icon.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
@="Recycle Bin"
... reset win 95 defaults
.
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=hex:40,01,00,20
Other edits to the recycle bin icon:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=hex:40,01,01,20 ... standard shortcut
arrow
"Attributes"=hex:40,01,02,20 ... another shortcut arrow
"Attributes"=hex:40,01,04,20 ... and another shortcut
arrow
"Attributes"=hex:40,01,08,20 ... make it look disabled
(like it's been cut)
And some more useless edits to the context menu:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=hex:41,01,00,20 .. copy
"Attributes"=hex:42,01,00,20 .. cut (move into another
folder? na..)
"Attributes"=hex:43,01,00,20 .. copy cut
"Attributes"=hex:44,01,00,20 .. paste
"Attributes"=hex:45,01,00,20 .. copy paste
"Attributes"=hex:46,01,00,20 .. cut paste
"Attributes"=hex:47,01,00,20 .. copy cut paste
I added the above edits for fun. But it gets you thinking.
Note: Adding rename and delete to the context menu takes effect
instantly. To restore the icon after deletion requires screen
refresh (F5).
Have fun.... Tom
Submitted by Tom Temple
[email protected]
Added 4/29/96
Also see the Installation Section on doing this automatically during installation.
Added 4/29/96
Also see the Installation Section on doing this automatically during installation.
Added 4/21/96
If you want to start programs every time Windows95 runs, but
would like to hide them from users
by not having the listed in the Startup folder or the WIN.INI
file, you can have them load through the registry.
Added 4/21/96
You can shut off the animation displayed when you minimize and
maximize windows.
Added 4/21/96
Added 4/21/96
Added 4/21/96
Added 4/21/96
If your modem it timing out during file transfers or loading
Web Pages,
you might try increasing the timeout period.
To change it:
Added 4/21/96
If you remove an installed program and its files by deleting
the files,
it may still show up in the Add/Remove programs list through the
control panel.
In order to remove it from the list (so you don't need to
re-install in order to just remove it again).
This will only delete them from the list, not delete the
actual programs.
Only programs designed for Windows95 will show up here in the
first place.
If you would like to add your Tips, please
e-mail me.
Be sure to include your name and e-mail address so credit can be
given.
If you have any additions or comments, please