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| Microsoft Windows
NT 4.0 Customizing |
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| Throw Out the Inbox |
| If you have a non-functioning Inbox icon on your Desktop, you can add a
delete option on its right-click pop-up menu with a Registry edit. Using
REGEDT32, go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \CLSID\{00020D75-0000-0000-C000-00000000046} \ShellFolder. Double-click on the Attributes value and change the REG_DWORD to Hex 60 for a Delete option |
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| Get New Wallpaper |
| Make this Registry change to add a company logo or legal notice to the bitmap displayed on the default Desktop when the log-on prompt is displayed. Find the HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop tree and locate the Wallpaper key. Double-click the entry and change the current value to the bitmap file you wish to use. To eliminate the opening bitmap, change the "(Default)" entry to a blank line and save your change. |
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| Screensaver Shortcuts |
| If you want to fire up a screensaver from a shortcut icon, try this.
Edit HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT \CurrentVersion\Windows; select the Programs value and then choose String from the Edit menu. Add the SCR extension to the string, so the string looks something like this: "exe com bat pif cmd scr." Close RegEdit, log off, log back on and make shortcuts to your favorite screensavers. Make sure the command line for the screensavers uses the /S switch. |
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| Lose the Last User |
| If you don't like having the last user's log-on name shown in the log-on
dialog, you can blank out the Username space. Edit: KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon. Change the DontDisplayLastUserName (REG_SZ ) to 1. |
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| In-Again Inbox |
| If you want to restore a deleted Inbox, edit: KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace. Go to Edit/New/Key and enter a Key Name of {00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}, leaving Class blank. Select this key and Add Value, leaving Value Name blank. Set the REG_SZ string to Inbox. |
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| Color Your World |
| You can change the color that NT Explorer uses to indicate compressed
files. Go to HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows \CurrentVersion\Explorer and change the AltColor key to a hex representation of the color in question. White, for instance, would be ffffff00 (the last two digits must always be 00.) |
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| Preoccupied Floppy |
| If you try to format a floppy disk and get errors, check to see if your floppy drive is active in another Explorer window. You can't format a floppy if another process is using it. |
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| Add an Expanding Control Panel to Start Menu |
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easy access to the Control Panel options? With this tip you can add an
expanding Control Panel folder to the start menu. This trick will work
with most special folders too.
The first step is find the system ID of the folder you want to add, these ID's can be found under the [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID] key. The Control Panel's key is called [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}] and the ID is the last set of number after CLSID, in this case '{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}'. Once you've found the ID the hard work is done, now all you need to do is right-click on the Start button and chose open. Now create a new folder with the name of the folder followed by a dot and the folder ID. For Control Panel create a new folder called 'Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}'. The new folder should now change into the Control Panel logo. Close the explorer window and click on the Start button, and there should now be a new expanding folder for the Control Panel. |
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| Easily Use Notepad to Open a File |
| Enabling
this setting will allow you to use Notepad to open a file by simply
right clicking on the icon. Also the Notepad will be used to open the
files by default if no association already exists.
1. Go to the key
"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell", if it doesn't exist create it. Now when you right click on a file you should see "Open with Notepad" as one of the options. Registry Settings:Key: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell] |
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| Change the Position of the Desktop Wallpaper |
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Windows only gives you the limited options of center or tile for the
placement of the desktop wallpaper. With this setting you can move the
image anyway on your desktop.
Open your registry and find the key below. Create two new string values of 'Wallpaperoriginx' and 'Wallpaperoriginy'. If the values already exist then you simply modify them. Set the value of 'Wallpaperoriginx' to equal the horizontal offset, and set the value of 'Wallpaperoriginy' to equal the vertical offset. Then either restart Windows, or change your background image through the Control Panel. Note: Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] Value Name: Wallpaperoriginx, Wallpaperoriginy Data Type: REG_SZ Data: Distance in Pixels |
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