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some more registry hacks

9/12/2008 7:19 PM

Ritesh Kawadkar

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some more registry hacks Modified By Ritesh Kawadkar on 9/12/2008 7:21:43 PM

Restrict execution of exe FILE (any application)

By enabling this feature you can restrict your user not to execute any application it totally restricts the user to execute any application. If you enable this setting then the following programs will not run
Notepad, word, paint, and all other program having .exe as extension also it will restrict running .reg, .bat, .jar or any other executable file
Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
And on the right pane create a DWORD named RestrictRun and set its value to 1.
NOTE: After running this setting you are not able to run Regedit also.

Know what are you typing

     Alt+<xxx>, where xxx is 3 digits that you would enter using NUMPAD, it will generate an OEM-encoded character.
For e.g ALT+123 will give {
     Alt+<0xxx>, where xxx 4 digits that you would enter using NUMPAD, it will generates a Windows-encoded character.
For e.g ALT+0169 will give ©
     Alt+<+>+<xxxx>, where xxxx is 4 digits that you would enter using NUMPAD, it will generates a Unicode-encoded (UTF-16) character.
For e.g ALT+ + 1236 will give Ӕ

Joke of the day

Windows shows the tip of the day at explorer. To see them click on View>Explorer>Tip of the day. You can edit these Tips of the day in the Registry by going to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ explorer\ Tips
There you will find a lot of tips just modify the tips and enter jokes in them and that’s all.

download all from here More than 100 registry TIPS n TRICKS>