Backup / Restore the Registry. To Backup/Restore the Windows Registry: Windows 9x For XP 2000 click here. If you are in MSDOS, at the C:\Windows prompt type.

Backup / Restore the Registry. To Backup/Restore the Windows Registry: Windows 9x For XP 2000 click here. If you are in MSDOS, at the C:\Windows prompt type.

Registry Tricks and Tips. To Backup/Restore the Windows Registry: Windows 9x For XP 2. If you are in MSDOS, at the C: \Windows prompt type Attrib - s - r - h C: \Windows\System. Enter) Attrib - s - r - h C: \Windows\User. Enter) To make the backup copies type: copy C: \Windows\System. C: \Windows\System.

Enter) copy C: \Windows\User. C: \Windows\user. Enter) To Restore the Registrycopy C: \Windows\System. C: \Windows\System. Enter) copy C: \Windows\User.

C: \Windows\user. Enter)You can add . I use three different text editors so I added it to the . Open Reg. Edit 2. Add a new Key named . Set the (Default) to . Add a new Key named .

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Set the (Default) to . You must enter the . You can add your name or anything you like that consists of 8 characters or less. This will replace the AM or PM next to the system time.

But you can corrupt some trial licenses of software that you may have downloaded. Open Reg. Edit 2. Add two new String values, . Right click the new value name and modify. Enter anything you like up to 8 characters.

If you enter two different values when modifying, you can have the system tray display the two different values in the AM and PM. Want to keep people from accessing Windows, even as the default user? If you do not have a domain do not attempt this. Open Reg. Edit 2. Create a dword value .

Set the value to 1 This forced logon can be bypassed in Safe Mode on Windows 9x. You can make Out.

Look Express load quicker by disabling the splash screen: 1. Open Reg. Edit 2.

Add a string value . Set the value data to 1 as a Dword value To make Windows use multiple Start Menu Columns instead of a single scrolling column, like Windows 9x had, Also if you are using Classic Mode in XP 1.

Open Reg. Edit 2. Go to the key HKEY. Create a string value . Right click the new string value and select modify 5. Set the value to . Open Reg. Edit 2.

Add a string value for each Icon you wish to change. Here is a complete list for each value. Unknown file type 1= MSN file types 2= Applications Generic 3= Closed Folder 4= Open Folder 5= 5. You may need to delete the hidden file Shell.

Icon. Cache if after rebooting the desired Icons are not displayed. You can change or delete the Windows mandatory locations of folder like My Documents: 1. Open Reg. Edit 2. Change the desired folder location, My Documents is normally list as . Open the Explorer and rename or create the folder you wish. To change the desired location of the Program Files folder 1. Change the value of .

You can change the Registered Owner or Registered Organization to anything you want even after Windows is installed. Open Reg. Edit 2) Got to. HKEY. 3) Change the value of .

To change the location of your mailbox for Exchange: 1. Open Reg. Edit 2. Go to the profile you want to change 4. Go to the value name that has the file location for your mailbox (*. PST) file 5. Make the change to file location or name To change the location of your mailbox for Outlook 1.

Open Reg. Edit 2. Go to the section . Make the change to file location You can Add and delete sounds events in the Control Panel. In order to do that: 1. Open Reg. Edit 2. If this key does not exist you can create it and add events.

You can add/delete any items you want to or delete the ones you no longer want. Here is how to add any application to the Context Menu when you right click on any Folder. This way you do not have to always go to the Start Menu.

When you right click on any folder, you can have access to that application, the same as using Sent To. Open Reg. Edit 2. Add a new Key to the . Give it a default value that will appear when you right click a folder, i. New. Key (use an . Click on the Key HKEY.

Add a New Key named Command 7. Set the (Default) value of the application you want to run 8.

For example: c: \program files\internet explorer\iexplore. Include the full path and parameters if you need them) When you want to right click on any folder and want to open up an Explorer window of that folder. Open Reg. Edit 2.

Add a new Key . Set the (Default) value to . Right Click the . Set the (Default) value of Explorer. If you need to change the drive and or path where Windows looks for its installation files: 1. Open Reg. Edit 2. Go to HKEY. 1. Open Reg.

Edit 2. Go To For Windows 9x and ME - HKEY. Enter the Title of the window. What is displayed in the Title Bar. Create a new string value . Enter the text for your message box that will appear even before the Logon window.

If you have a un- registered file type and want to view it instead of having to select Open With. Use Explorer's Right- click and add your program to the right- click options by: 1. Open Reg. Edit 2.

Right click on . Create a New Key under the . Set the (Default) value to the path and filename of the program you want to use to open the file type 6. For example: C: \Windows\NOTEPAD. EXE %1 You must use the . At the Windows Command line: Reg. Edit /l location of System.

R location of User. D Registry key to delete You cannot be in Windows at the time you use this switch. Or you can create a reg file as such: REGEDIT4 . Reg. Edit C: \Windows\(name of the regfile). If you want to make restrictions to what users can do or use on their computer without having to run Poledit, you can edit the Registry.

You can add and delete Windows features in this Key shown below. Zero is Off and the value 1 is On.

Example: to Save Windows settings add or modify the value name No. Save. Settings to 0, if set to. Windows will not save settings. And No. Delete. Printer set to 1 will prevent the user from deleting a printer.

The same key shows up at: HKEY. Open Reg. Edit 2. Go to HKEY. No. Delete. Printer - Disables Deletion of Printers No. Add. Printer - Disables Addition of Printers No. Run - Disables Run Command No. Set. Folders - Removes Folders from Settings on Start Menu No.

Set. Taskbar - Removes Taskbar from Settings on Start Menu No. Find - Removes the Find Command No. Drives - Hides Drives in My Computers No. Net. Hood - Hides the Network Neighborhood No.

Desktop - Hides all icons on the Desktop No. Close - Disables Shutdown No. Save. Settings - Don't save settings on exit Disable. Registry. Tools - Disable Registry Editing Tools No.

Recent. Docs. Menu - Hides the Documents shortcut at the Start button No. Recent. Docs. History- Clears history of Documents No. File. Menu . I'm not telling you how, as someone may want to play a trick on you.

The policies key has a great deal of control over how and what program can run and how one can access what feature. In the System key you can enter: No. Disp. CPL - Disable Display Control Panel No. Disp. Background. Page - Hide Background Page No. Disp. Scr. Sav. Page - Hide Screen Saver Page No.

Disp. Appearance. Page - Hide Appearance Page No. Disp. Settings. Page - Hide Settings Page No. Sec. CPL - Disable Password Control Panel No. Pwd. Page - Hide Password Change Page No.

Admin. Page - Hide Remote Administration Page No. Profile. Page - Hide User Profiles Page No.

Dev. Mgr. Page - Hide Device Manager Page No. Config. Page - Hide Hardware Profiles Page No. File. Sys. Page - Hide File System Button No. Virt. Mem. Page - Hide Virtual Memory Button In the Network key you can enter: No. Net. Setup - Disable the Network Control Panel No.

Net. Setup. IDPage - Hide Identification Page No. Net. Setup. Security. Page - Hide Access Control Page No. File. Sharing. Control - Disable File Sharing Controls No. Print. Sharing - Disable Print Sharing Controls In the Win.

Old. App key you can enter: Disabled - Disable MS- DOS Prompt No. Real. Mode - Disables Single- Mode MS- DOS When you make changes to your file system and use Explorer, the changes are not usually displayed until you press the F5 key To refresh automatically: 1. Open Reg. Edit 2. Set the value name . Either use the same password or: 1. Open Reg. Edit 2. Go to the key. HKEY.

Add a Dword value . They are the Max. MTU, Max. MSS and Default. Rcv. Window, and Default. TTL 1. Open Reg. Edit 2.

Go to HKEY. The usual change is to 5. Similarly, you can add IPMSS and give it a value of 5. Windows 9. X)You can set Default. Rcv. Window, and Default. TTL by adding these string values to HKEY.

If you are using Direct Cable you should see a sight difference. To add items when you right- click on the Start Button: 1. Open Reg. Edit 2. Go to HKEY. 9. For example, if you want Word to be added, you would add that as the first key, the default in the right panel would be & Word so when you right click on the Start Button, the W would be the Hot Key on your keyboard. The value of the key would be C: \Program Files\Office\Winword\Winword.

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: 1. Open Reg. Edit 2.

Go to HKEY. When you right- click on the desktop and select New, or use the File Menu item in the Explore and select New a list of default templates you can open up are listed. To remove items from that list: 1. Open Reg. Edit 2.

Do a Search for the string Shell. New in the HKEY. Delete the Shell. New command key for the items you want to remove.

You can view more data if you increase the line count of Telnet. By Default it has a window size of 2. To increase this so you can scroll back and look at a larger number on lines: 1. Open Reg. Edit 2. Modify the value data of . Change the Caption on the Title Bar for Out. Look Express or the Internet Explorer: For Outlook Express: 1.

Open Reg. Edit 2. Add a string value . Modify the value to what ever you like.

For no splash screen, add a dword value . Each user has his own Key number. The Key 5. 0 is whatever version of IE you have For Internet Explorer: 1. Open Reg. Edit 2. Add a string value .

Modify the value to what ever you like. 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.