How To Hide A User Account In Vista

Everyone like to see a clean logon screen like a clean desktop. What if you have two user accounts and not using one of them for the time being? Though you can delete it easily, I suggest you to hide the secondary user account instead. If you liked this idea, you can hide an user [...]

Enable/Disable Search Option In Start Menu Of Vista SP1

As you know, there is no “Search” Option in the Start Menu of Windows Vista SP1. If you want to restore this search option, follow these easy steps.To Enable Search:1.Open Windows Registry Editor by “regedit”(without quotes) in Start Menu Search box.2.Click “Continue” button for the UAC prompt.3.Navigate to the following key in the Windows Registry [...]

Enable or Disable Sound Recorder In Vista

Using Sound Recorder, you can record sound as a digital media file on your computer from a variety of devices, such as a microphone that is plugged in to your sound card. The types of audio input sources you can record from depend on the audio devices you have, as well as on the input [...]

Unhide Advanced "Disk Cleanup" Utility In Windows

Generally we use third party applications to cleanup Widows. Most of us think that Windows default “Disk Cleanup” doesn’t has enough options. But most of us don’t know that there are few more excellent hidden options in our default “Disk Cleanup” utility. If you want to give a try, open elevated “Command Prompt”(command prompt with [...]

Add "MSCONFIG" To The Right Click Menu Of "Computer"

We often use “MSCONFIG” to tweak Startup properties. So, I thought of adding this to right click of “Computer”. Result is simple code to add “MSCONFIG” to the right click menu of “My Computer” or “Computer”. Copy the below code in your “Notepad”, save with any name, but with .REG extension and then, run it. [...]

Customize Start Menu With Registry

I know you can also do these things in Start Menu Properties. But, it would be more fun doing the same in Windows Registry. If you want to continue with this way, copy the below code in Notepad. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]“Start_ShowUser”=dword:00000000“Start_ShowMyDocs”=dword:00000000“Start_ShowMyPics”=dword:00000000“Start_ShowMyMusic”=dword:00000000“Start_ShowMyGames”=dword:00000000“StartMenuFavorites”=dword:00000000“Start_ShowSearch”=dword:00000000“Start_ShowRecentDocs”=dword:00000000“Start_ShowMyComputer”=dword:00000000“Start_ShowNetPlaces”=dword:00000000“Start_ShowNetConn”=dword:00000000“Start_ShowControlPanel”=dword:00000000“Start_ShowSetProgramAccessAndDefaults”=dword:00000000“Start_AdminToolsRoot”=dword:00000000“Start_ShowPrinters”=dword:00000000“Start_ShowHelp”=dword:00000000“Start_ShowRun”=dword:00000000“Start_TrackProgs”=dword:00000000“Start_TrackDocs”=dword:00000000 Replace the above dword 00000000 with 00000001 if you want to enable [...]

Hide Control Panel Applets In Vista & XP

There are around fifty applets(items) in Windows Vista Control Panel.I use none of them as I open all of them using Run Command. So, I wanted to hide all of the applets in a simple way. Yes, you can also do the same if you don’t use few Control Panel applets. As tweaking “Group Policy” [...]

Add Hide/Unhide Options In File Context Menu

We know how to hide a file/folder from Properties window. What if you can hide/unhide from the right click context menu itself? Yes, you can add hide/unhide option to right click context menu by adding a registry entry to Windows Registry. Here is the procedure: To add “Hide File” option:All you need to do is, [...]

Stop Accidently Creating Copy Of Copying Files

This is what happens when you try to select a group of files by holding Control key. Who is the culprit? Well, it happens if you move the mouse cursor when you have selected multiple files by holding Control key. If you have also experienced this problem, you can stop this problem by applying a [...]

Disable Group Policy In Windows

I was searching through Windows Registry this afternoon and found this trick that successfully disables the Group Policy editor.Here’s how: 1.Navigate to HKEY_ LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\gpsvc2.On the right hand side, locate the value(DWORD) named “Start” and replace it’s value by “Decimal” “4″(without quotes).3.Close the Registry Editor and reboot the system.4.Try to access the “Group Policay” now, you [...]

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