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REGISTRY TIPS MENU

Reviewed: June 2005

Advanced users

First read below:
• AVOID ACCIDENTAL REGISTRY IMPORTING
• RE-INITAILIZE REGISTRY

The following four pages contain many Registry tweaks and tips for Windows 9x.

Registry Tips (1 - 11) 1. AUTOREFRESH 2. ANIMATION 3. CD AUTORUN 4. COMMAND PROMPT HERE 5. DOUBLE BUFFERING 6. DOWNLOAD DEFAULT DIRECTORY 7. FIND - EDITED 8. ICONS IN HI-COLOR 9. ICONS IN DLL FILES 10. MENU DELAY 11. NEW EDITED - RIGHT-CLICK MENU	Registry Tips (12 - 23) 12. OPEN FILE IN NOTEPAD 13. OPEN WITH ... 14. OWNER PROFILES 15. QUICK VIEW 16. SMOOTH SCROLLING 17. THUMBNAIL IMAGES OF BITMAP ICONS 18. WINDOWS EXPLORER 19. RUN - the DROP-DOWN LIST 20. ARROW - Remove it from Shortcuts 21. BACKGROUND COLOR - during bootup 22. BUFFER COMMITS 23. CD AUTORUN - if it does not work
Registry Tips (24 - 35) 24. CD DRIVE LETTER 25. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS 26. DRAG FULL WINDOW 27. DRIVERS - 32-bit PROTECTED MODE 28. EXPLORE FROM HERE 29. EXPLORE - from the START MENU 30. FOLDERS LOCATION 31. FILE ALLOCATION SIZE 32. FILENAMES TRUNCATED 33. IE 4.0 DEFAULT BUG 34. MENU DROP-DOWNS ALIGNED TO THE RIGHT 35. MODEM INITIALIZATION STRING	Registry Tips (36 - 47) 36. MODEM - MAXSOCKETS 37. MODEM TIMEOUT 38. NEW COMMAND MISSING ! 39. NOTEPAD - FONT USED 40. NUMLOCK ON / OFF 41. SYSTEM AGENT - Disable 42. PROGRAM FAULTS - RECORDED 43. SAVE SETTINGS 44. START MENU - EDIT IT 45. STARTUP WITHOUT APPLICATIONS 46. VIDEO REFRESH RATE 47. WRITE BEHIND CACHING

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AVOID ACCIDENTAL REGISTRY IMPORTING Windows 9x

Many users prefer to use a Reg file (text file with a .reg extension) to make alterations to the Registry. This is double-clicked after every bootup or placed in Autoexec.bat.

It is extremely easy to accidentally alter the Registry by unintentionally clicking on a file with a .reg extension. Its importation into the Registry is without confirmation, is immediate, and there is no Undo. Here are two methods designed to prevent a possible calamity:

1 Use .TXT Any reg file you create can be given an added extension of .txt. For example my.reg would become my.reg.txt and clicking on it will open it in your text editor (Notepad, usually).
It will never be imported into the Registry until the .txt is removed (and replaced after use, please!). These files are easily located by using *.reg.txt in Find

2 Change Default action taken when any .reg file is double-clicked.
a) Open Windows Explorer and select View • Options • File Types tab
b) Scroll down the registered file types until you find Registration Entries and highlight it
c) Click Edit. There should be three actions in the Actions box : Edit, Merge and Print.
d) Highlight Edit and click Set Default, Edit should become Bold
The next time you double-click on a .reg file, Notepad should open instead.
You can still import a .reg file by right-clicking on it, and selecting Merge

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RE-INITAILIZE REGISTRY Windows 9x

Re-Initailize your Registry without rebooting

It is normal practice to reboot after making a Registry change.
Rebooting regularly can be a chore and a bore.

However you can re-initialize your Registry (and refresh your Desktop) without ever leaving the Windows environment.

• Save your current work - just in case!

• Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete, bringing up the Windows' current Task List
• Highlight Explorer, and click on End Task
• If the Shutdown screen is shown, click Cancel
• After a few seconds an error message will appear
• click on End Task

Windows Explorer will now restart (plus your updated Registry)

Now! That's a lot quicker!

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* ALWAYS BACKUP FIRST * ALWAYS RECORD SETTINGS * ALWAYS MAKE ONE CHANGE AT A TIME

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