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(Windows Registry) Add Command Prompt Here - Scooter

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:37:05 GMT

Add Command Prompt Here to folder context menu.

(Windows Registry) Save/restore desktop icon layout - Scooter

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:52:09 GMT

Adds ability to save and restore desktop icon layout from the desktop context menu. I modified it to display on the desktop context menu; original code displayed by right-clicking Recycle Bin, which doesn't make much sense.

(Windows Registry) Shell command for removing all TortoiseSVN .svn files (placed into registry) - bswimley

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:21:36 GMT

I changed the code on the web site slightly to get it to work with the registry editor. Once this new shell command is in place, right click on the directory of interest, and select "Delete SVN Folders" to strip all the .svn folders from the directory.

(Windows Registry) Tango color palette for Windows console - mitry

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:50:23 GMT

(Windows Registry) How To Make Administrator Appear in XP - TALlama

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:36:46 GMT

By default, the 'Administrator' user in XP won't show if any other users are defined. This is moronic. This one registry value will make that user show up regardless.

(Windows Registry) Network Time Protocol enhancements - Scooter

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:00:38 GMT

Three objectives are accomplished here: 1. Allow the machine to act as an NTP server on the local network, so you have the option to synchronize all other machines from the one. Handy if all machines must be closely sychronized. 2. Reduce the NTP polling interval to four hours. The default setting is a week, which is plenty of time to become unsynchronized. 3. Add more NTP servers and change the default. Most computers are synchronizing with time.windows.com; this massive load causes delays and means that your computer's clock may be a few seconds behind.

(Windows Registry) Collection of Start Menu and Windows Explorer tweaks - Scooter

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:42:41 GMT

You may want to pick and choose from these. I have them grouped together because they all apply to the same branch of the registry.

(Windows Registry) SQL Files Preview Handler - ggponti

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:15:42 GMT

Use the text files Preview Handler to display SQL files.

(Windows Registry) Add taskmgr to Control Panel - Scooter

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:05:25 GMT

Adds an icon for task manager to the Control Panel.

(Windows Registry) Add regedit to the Control Panel - Scooter

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:02:30 GMT

Adds an icon for registry editor to the Control Panel.

(Windows Registry) Add msconfig to Control Panel - Scooter

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:54:44 GMT

Adds an icon for the msconfig utility to the Control Panel.

(Windows Registry) Increase simultaneous downloads to 10 - Scooter

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:38:10 GMT

Intended for execution during installation of Windows. For use on an existing user account, change "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT" to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER".

(Windows Registry) how to compare IE security zone settings - theonlyalterego

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:36:48 GMT

IE Zone Analyzer allows comparing/importing/exporting of IE security zones

(Windows Registry) Change Excel macro security to medium - Scooter

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 06:36:41 GMT

The below is for Excel 2003, but you can probably target Office 2007 or 2010 by changing the version to 12.0 or 13.0 respectively. At the company where I am currently working, Excel addins are used extensively by various departments. By default, Excel has macro security set to high, but some users are too dumb to read the message that tells them to change the macro security to medium, so I've added the following to our collection of registry tweaks applied during logon to take care of this automatically.

(Windows Registry) Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition security settings - Scooter

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 06:33:03 GMT

When you install Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition, the default settings are not very secure. The following registry script will increase the security settings to a more reasonable level. This is for version 10; I suspect the settings for version 11 and 12 are stored in a similar registry location, and finding the location was the hardest part.

(Windows Registry) How to create a Command Prompt context menu item? - zooms

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:16:27 GMT

(Windows Registry) Disable Windows Share Drag and Drop Confirmation caused by IE 7 on XP SP3 - karlhorky

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:27:02 GMT

Internet Explorer 7 under Windows XP Service Pack 3 has the Windows Registry "Reserved Value" 180D set that was not set before, which can cause a "Do you want to move or copy files from this zone?" prompt on moves or copies between Windows shares if they are incorrectly detected as being part of the Internet Zone. The registry solution in this snippet will disable this confirmation message. References: "Reserved value" 180D (Microsoft.com: Internet Explorer security zones registry entries for advanced users): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182569 Discussion of Windows Registry solution: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general&tid=6f434a2d-cb47-47c4-b73a-f85459d27c51&cat=en_US_91a15a1e-b269-4291-b6b4-dc2d504ce9ef&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1 "Do you want to move or copy files from this zone?" Prompt Example: http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/image56.png

(Windows Registry) Windows Registry: Set open folder default icons for all A-Z drive letters and Desktop Shell Folder in Windows 7 - karlhorky

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:16:09 GMT

Based upon the Drive Icon Change Windows Vista tweak and the shell icons registry settings found at the respective links below, this Windows 7 / Vista tweak will set the default icon of all A-Z drive letters (like C: for instance) and the Desktop to the open folder icon that Windows uses. This tweak is one step towards the final goal of having a standard default taskbar icon for Windows Explorer, irrespective of the current location of the Explorer instance. Of course, a better solution would be an application to modify Windows Explorer so that its taskbar icon is configurable, but I have yet to find (or make) a solution that would be this flexible. Drive Icon Change - Vista Forums: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/111388-drive-icon-change.html Shell icons registry settings: http://www.virtualplastic.net/html/icn_reg.html#shellicons

(Windows Registry) Outlook Query Builder - ramisedhom

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:41:01 GMT

The Query Builder allows you to control the AND and OR relation in your searches Note: 12.0 in the path below is the Outlook version, replace it with the Outlook version you have. Credit for this trick goes to: http://www.msoutlook.info/question/276

(Windows Registry) MSI Right-click Context Menu: Install As (other user or administrator) - karlhorky

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:34:24 GMT

RunAs is a great way of temporarily elevating your privileges to admin level when you are logged on as an ordinary user. However, while you can right-click on .exe files and select Run As from the shortcut menu, this doesn't work with Windows Installer (.msi) packages. Here's a workaround that makes this possible. Credit for this trick goes to: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/RegistryTips/Security/InstallingMSIPackageswithElevatedPrivileges.html

(Windows Registry) Notepad2 - Add to Explorer Context Menu - laurenceosx

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:45:22 GMT

(Windows Registry) Windows Shell Command to Delete .SVN Files - abwaters

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:48:23 GMT

Very useful for when you don't have Cygwin or are not running on a linux box...

(Windows Registry) logon user - mitry

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 02:23:09 GMT

Remove _Guest_ and _Administrator_ from logon screen

(Windows Registry) Windows Shell Icons - mitry

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:47:57 GMT

remove ';' after digits and replace description string with path to icon file or icon library

(Windows Registry) Disable animated character in Search Companion. - Scooter

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:04:24 GMT

Disables the animated character in Search Companion without reverting to the classic Windows 2000 search (like most scripts do). Intended for execution during installation of Windows. For use on an existing user account, change "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT" to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER".