Tag Archives: Registry

First step to a cleaner and faster Windows – understand the Registry

By Ajith | Published: November 25, 2010
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To keep your windows installation fast and clean, you need to know what the registry is. This article deals with the Windows registry, how registry cleaners work and how you can easily understand the various settings of the registry.

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Tutorial | 3 Comments

View system files (super hidden) in Explorer

By Ajith | Published: August 26, 2008

This is the first among a series of posts on administering Windows . It starts with how to see the files and folders that were hidden by Windows for some reason. The series is actually inspired from the one done by Samanathon on Starting your Day with a fresh Computer. He did a good job [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Admin, Customize, File | 2 Comments

Change the default Drive Icons in Windows XP

By Ajith | Published: July 8, 2008

You can change the default drive icons available in My Computer under Windows XP through the registry. Although it is done via registry the task is pretty simple and straight forward. (You can also use the Autorun method – please read that article if you prefer to do so) Open registry editor ( WIN+R » [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Customize, Icon, Visual | 2 Comments

How to prevent access to select drives using Registry

By Ajith | Published: May 1, 2008

How do you prevent others from accessing data from some drives!? Using the Windows registry you can not only prevent them from accessing your data, but also throw and error message right on their face while they try to do it.

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Tips, Trick | 4 Comments

Correction to the list files and folders from a directory to a file

By Ajith | Published: April 7, 2008

I think you all remember OKTHEN, the one who told us all an easy way to list files and folders in a directory into a file through a context menu. He posted it as a comment. Well last day he commented on the post to correct some mistakes in the comment. Here is his new [...]

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Find all recently used Wallpapers from your Registry

By Ajith | Published: March 4, 2008

Windows saves the list of wallpapers ever used on the system in a registry Key. HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion ExplorerWallpaperMRU All those Registry Binary values here are the address to the images you used as wallpapers. The last part in this binary makes no sense to me but I think this i information about the dimensions and style [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Image, Tips, Wallpaper | Leave a comment

Prevent copying of files to USB drive

By Ajith | Published: March 4, 2008

A simple and easy trick to prevent others from copying files from your PC to a USB device like a USB pen drive.

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Admin, Error, File | 33 Comments

Clear the most recently run commands in Run Box from Registry

By Ajith | Published: February 22, 2008

Windows has got the habit of saving almost anything you got your hands on, like recent run list, , recent files etc.. Although some of these may be useful most of them are not. The recent RUN list, mentioned above, is saved in the . (The recent Run list is useful but this is an [...]

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How to change the default wallpaper folder of Windows to your favourite one.

By Ajith | Published: December 23, 2007

This is almost a follow up post of . So please read that post also. The default Windows Wallpaper folder is %SystemRoot%\Web\Wallpaper where normally %SystemRoot% is C:\Windows . The location where the Desktop properties look for Wallpaper is saved in the Registry Key : MyComputer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows \Currentversion as a Multi String Value with a name WallpaperDir [...]

Posted in Windows | Also tagged Wallpaper | 2 Comments