You haven´t at any time thought things about your
computer like: "Today I will change the name of my Recycle Bin" or "My
Start Menu is going to slow, lets change it" I suppose?
Well if you have, here´s your guide. And if you haven´t, think of it, because here it comes. Remember to make a safety copy of your Registry and check out this node all the time, because it´s going to be updated often
Change name of
Recycle Bin:
1. Start the
Registry Editor (Start Menu, Run, regedit)
2. Choose HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT then CLSID
3. Choose {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
4. There´s a "
Default" that probably say "Recycle Bin"
5. Doubleclick this and write your new Recycle Bin name like "
Thrash" or something
Fasten Up Start Menu:
1. Start Registry Editor (See Above)
2. Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER then Control Panel
3. Click Desktop without expanding it
4. Look for a value named MenuShowDelay, if there isn´t any...
5..Choose New-String value on the
Edit menu and name it MenuShowDelay.
6. Give this a value between 0-10 where 5 is 5
milliseconds
Make a Shortcut to your desktop on your Start Menu:
1. Right-click and choose: New, then Shortcut
2. Write "EXPLORER \ROOT,"
3. Press Next and write Desktop
4. Press Finish
5. Drag the
Shortcut to your Start Menu
Remove Programs That Have Been left in the Add/Remove Program Box:
1. Start your Registry Editor
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\
Uninstall
3. Choose the
Folder with the name of the program you want to remove
4. If there is a lot of numbers and
digits, press them and look for a string called DisplayName. There the program name should be
5. To remove it from the box, simply delete the folder with the DisplayName Folder
Enable Icon
preview of
bitmaps:
1. Start your Registry
2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and then Paint.Picture
3. Look for a folder named DefaultIcon
4. Change it to "%1"
Add a Program to Send To-Menu:
1. Start C:\Windows\SendTo
2. Add a shortcut to the program you want
3. If you want to send to your desktop...
4..Use the
tutorial above for a shortcut to the desktop
5. Add it to C:\Windows\SendTo
Make buttons for
Shutdown and
Restart on your Desktop
1. Right-click and choose New-Shortcut
2. Write "rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows" for
shutdown
3. Write "rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindowsexec" for
restart
4. Press Continue and then Finish
Here follows a few tips for speeding up your computer:
Some
applications include a file with an
extension of .REG. These files are used during
installation to set up the Registry settings the applications need. Handle these files with care. If you double-click on a file with the
extension of .REG, Regedit will
read the
contents of that file and merge its data into your Registry. If the same keys already exist in the Registry, the new contents will
replace them. To read a .REG file, use
Notepad or another editor and see what it changes before you
merge it into your Registry.