All Posts Tagged With: "registry"

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Create System Restore Points Quickly using Script in Windows Vista and Windows XP

You can create System Restore Points quickly using a WMI script. Here is a script that helps you create a System Restore point in a single click. This script works in Windows Vista and Windows XP Systems.

16May2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Add Copy To and Move To to the right-click menu in Vista

The Copy To Folder and Move To Folder options found in the Edit menu in Windows Explorer help you move or copy a file or folder easily to a different location. This functionality can also be added to the right-click menu in Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista, similar to Send To X PowerToy [...]

14May2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Add “Copy as Path” option to the context menu in Windows XP

Windows Vista already includes the useful Copy as Path option in the context menu, which helps you quickly copy the complete path of the selected file or folder to the Clipboard. Earlier, we added the Add to Quick Launch and Open file location options to the context menu in Windows XP, as in Windows Vista. [...]

10May2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Default Programs list is completely empty

After seeing reports of Nokia Video Manager wiping out the Set Your Default Programs list in Windows Vista, I tried to replicate the problem to check if it was really caused by Nokia Video Manager. I installed the latest version of Nokia PC Suite and Nokia Video Manager in my Windows Vista PC. Then I [...]

8May2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Fix the incorrect icon for Opera Browser in the AutoPlay dialog

If you have Opera Web browser installed, you would have noticed that the icon for Opera browser is incorrect in the AutoPlay dialog, which is displayed when you insert a CD/DVD or connect a removable drive in your system. This non-fatal bug was reported back in the 2006 at Opera forums, but the problem seems to [...]

5May2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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How to Take Ownership of a file or folder using command-line in Windows Vista?

In earlier versions of Windows there were no command-line tools to take ownership of files or folders. You needed to use the Security tab in the file or folder properties to change the ownership of an item. Windows Vista includes a command-line tool named Takeown.exe that can be used from an admin Command Prompt to [...]

3May2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Change the default icon for unknown file types in Windows Vista

File Type association is one of my interesting subjects in Windows. File types that are not registered with the system and files that have no extension, are assigned a generic icon from shell32.dll,0 resource by default in Windows. This is the case in all Windows Operating Systems.
When working on a different problem with the registry, [...]

1May2008 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Fixing Folder Type problems in Windows Vista

Occasionally Windows Vista may assign incorrect templates for folders, if the content sniffing goes wrong or the folder view settings in the registry are messed up. For example, when you open a folder containing text files, Windows may incorrectly assign it the Music template, and thereby showing all the irrelevant columns such as Artist Name, [...]

30Apr2008 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Enable and Disable built-in CD Burning Features in Windows Vista

If you’re using a third-party CD burning tool such as Nero or Roxio and want to disable the built-in CD Burning features provided by Windows Vista, you can do so using the NoCDBurning Policy setting. Follow these steps to disable the built-in CD Burning features in Windows Vista:

28Apr2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Show Version and Description tags for DLL files in the Details Pane in Vista

The Details Pane located at the bottom of Windows Explorer, displays a set of the file’s properties for any selected file. With the Details Pane, you no longer need to right-click on a file to open the Properties dialog box. Instead, the basic file properties are always visible in the Details Pane found in each [...]

24Apr2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued