All Posts Tagged With: "registry"
Restore Missing Options to the Personalize Page in Windows Vista
When you right-click on the Desktop and choose Personalize, the following options are displayed by default in the Personalize appearance and sounds page in Windows Vista:
Window Color and Appearance
Desktop Background
Screen Saver
Sounds
Mouse Pointers
Theme
Display Settings
If one or more of the above options are missing, this may be due to Policies applied in your system. Here are the [...]
23Jun2008 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 1 comment | ContinuedAdd Select All option to the context menu in Windows Vista
To select all files in a folder or in the Desktop, you use the CTRL + A keyboard shortcut. If you’re an avid mouse user, and need the select all functionality in the right click menu in Windows Vista, use this tweak. Note that this tweak does not work in Windows XP.
21Jun2008 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 1 comment | ContinuedDisable Empty Recycle Bin Confirmation in Windows XP and Vista
When you try to empty the Recycle Bin using the Empty Recycle Bin context menu or from the Tasks pane, you’ll see the confirmation dialog as shown below:
Note that you can only disable the confirmation dialog shown when deleting a file or folder, but there is no option available in Windows to disable the empty [...]
20Jun2008 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 1 comment | ContinuedDisable Writing to USB Drives in Windows XP and Windows Vista
By default users can insert a USB disk in the system and read from, or write to it without limitation. Windows XP Service Pack 2 introduces a new setting which helps system administrators to restrict the ability of users to write to USB storage devices.
16Jun2008 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 0 comments | ContinuedFix the Compressed (zipped) Folder icon in Windows XP/Vista
One of our readers asks: I recently installed and un-installed a 3rd Party File compression program 7-Zip. Then found that the icon for Compressed File folder is wrong. Where do I get my old zip file icon from?
16Jun2008 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 0 comments | ContinuedPrint Directory Listing to Clipboard from the Context Menu in Windows XP and Windows Vista
Clip.exe console utility which is built-in in Windows Vista helps you capture command-line output to the Clipboard. For example, typing the command dir | clip in a Command Prompt window copies the current directory listing to Clipboard. We’ve earlier used Clip.exe to add Copy as Path and Copy Target URL commands to the context menu. [...]
14Jun2008 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 0 comments | ContinuedChange the Open Folder icon in Windows Explorer and Registry Editor
To easily identify currently selected folder in the Windows Explorer navigation pane, you can change the default open folder icon using a registry edit. This works fine in Windows XP as well as in Windows Vista.
11Jun2008 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 1 comment | ContinuedApply the default user logon picture to all users in Vista
If you’re wondering if it’s possible to set a default user account picture for all user accounts in the system, then this article is for you. There is a new Group Policy setting in Windows Vista using which you can apply a default user logon picture in the Welcome Screen for all user accounts.
10Jun2008 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 0 comments | ContinuedRemove Hibernation File Cleaner from Vista Disk Cleanup options
Hibernate feature gets disabled if you select the Hibernation File Cleaner in Windows Vista Disk Cleanup tool. (REF KB928897.) To prevent accidental deletion of the hibernation file from any admin level user account in your system, you may remove the entry Hibernation File Cleaner from the Disk Cleanup options.
9Jun2008 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 0 comments | ContinuedFix for Windows error opening Internet shortcut or local HTML file using Firefox
With Mozilla Firefox set as the default browser, when you open a hyperlink from your email client, or when running a URL or a HTML file, one of the following errors may occur:
4Jun2008 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 1 comment | Continued
