Today I am going to tell you about 5 great registry hacks which will help you improve your system features and performance. 1. Security : U...
Today I am going to tell you about 5 great registry hacks which will help you improve your system features and performance.1. Security:
USB Drives are one of the major tool through which data transfer takes place. In order to protect your data from getting stolen from you computer with the help of a USB drive you can make the USB drives read only.
Go to �HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies� and create a new DWORD value �WriteProtect� and set its value to 1. This will enable you to read from USB drives, but you won�t be able to copy data to it.
2. Sorting Files:
Quite often you want the files to appear according to their names in explorer. In order to restore the ASCII file ordering, perform the following hack :
Go to �HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Policies\Explorer� and create a new DWORD value called as �NoStrCmpLogical� and set its value to 1.
3. Speeding Up Menu loading time:
In order to make your menus load faster, perform the following tweak.
Go to �HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Control Panel\Desktop� and right click �MenuShowDelay� and click �Modify�. Change the string value to some nearby 100 value.
4. Reducing Folder Accessibility Time:
To speed up the access to any folder that is pinned to start menu, perform the following hack
Go to �HKCR\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers� and right click �ContextMenuHandlers� and click �New|Key�. Type � (blank space and no quotation marks) and press Enter. Select any folder and right click on it to select �Pin to Start Menu� while holding Shift key.
5. Multiple Logins in Messenger:
By default you are allowed only a single login at a time on Live Windows Messenger. You can override this by
Go to �HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsLive\Messenger� and create a new DWORD value �Multiple Instances� and its values as 1.
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