Registry Tips

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=== Disabling Drives in My Computer ===
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To turn off the display of local or networked drives when you click on
My Computer:

Start Regedit
Go to HKey_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Current
Version \ Policies \ Explorer
Add a New DWORD item and name it NoDrives
Give it a value of 3FFFFFF
Now when you click on My Computer, none of your drives will show.

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=== Removing Items from NEW ===
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When you right-click on the desktop and select New, a list of default
templates you can open up are listed.
To remove items from that list:

Start Regedit
Search for the string ShellNew
This should bring you to HKey_Classes_Root
For the items you want to remove, simply rename the ShellNew command
Renaming is safer that deleting it
Continue searching for the items you want to remove
You do not need to reboot for the change to take effect.

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=== To speed up the Start Menu ===
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Start the REGEDIT program
Search for the word desktop
This should be in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT / CLSID / {00021400...
Right Click on the right panel
Pick NEW / String Value.
Name it MenuShowDelay, all one word.
Select a value from 1-10, 1 being the fastest.
Exit REGEDIT
Restart Windows.

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Mohsin Aziz
http://groups.google.com/group/thecomputertalk
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