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New Post 8/10/2008 11:38 AM
User is offline Ritesh Kawadkar
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TipS n TrIcKs let TWeaK Some MoRE 
Modified By Ritesh Kawadkar  on 8/10/2008 11:42:41 AM)

 

MAy be the topic is covered sometimes b4 but i have made an attempt to summon all the tweaks hope you peoplae would like it

BIOS

Turn ON

your PC on mouse or Keyboard 1 click

If you want to start up PC by just 1 right click of your mouse or 1 touch of Keyboard do the following-

Start your computer

Press DEL button to enter BIOS

Click on Power Management Setup

Then Enable the option which says Mouse Power On and Keyboard Power On

For Enabling just click on the desired option and press PageUP button

Then press F10 and hit enter

NOTE: Only for USB PS 2 Mouse and Keyboard. Also, you need to first start your PC manually after then for starting your PC this TWEAK will work.

 

 

 

 

BIOS

Know your BIOS

If you want to know your Bios Version, Video Bios Date, and System Bios Date then navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System

And on the right pane you will find all these information’s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keyboard

Disable Windows Shortcut Key

If you want to prevent users from using shortcuts like [Windows + R] and so on

Open Group Policy Editor. (Type gpedit.msc in RUN dialog box)

Navigate to User Configuration>Administrative Templates>Windows Components> Windows Explorer.

On the right pane double click on option turn off windows + X hotkeys and Enable it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keyboard

Swap Ctrl + Alt + Del functioning

What happen when you press Ctrl + Alt + Del? Yeah, Task manager pop ups have you ever think what’s the reaction of your friend when he presses Ctrl + Alt + Del and Calculator pop ups or nay other application. Here is the way to open any application by using Ctrl + Alt + Del

Open Regedit. (type Regedit in RUN dialog box)

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\taskmgr.exe

On the right pane double click on value name Debugger and set its value to C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\calc.exe

Now, whenever you press Ctrl + Alt + Del calculator program will pop up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keyboard

Change the Default NumLock State

Just copy/paste the following lines of code in Notepad and save the file as Numlock.bat then right click on this bat file and click on Merge.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard]

"InitialKeyboardIndicators"="2"

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard]

"InitialKeyboardIndicators"="0"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mouse

Cursor's Blink Rate

To control how fast the cursor blinks, navigate to

 HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop

And change the value of string named CursorBlinkRate to anything between 1200 (slowest) to 200 (fastest) in milliseconds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mouse

Swap Mouse Buttons

Navigate to

HKCU\Control Panel\Mouse

On the right pane change the value of String named SwapMouseButtons to 1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Folders

Add Command Prompt Option to Every Folder

To add Command Prompt Option to every folder right click menu do the following

Open Regedit. (type Regedit in RUN dialog box)

Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell

Create a key named Command under shell

So that the path would be HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Command

On the right pane double click on default and set its value to Command Prompt

Now create a key named command under Command

So that the path would be HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Command\command

On the right pane double click on default and set its value to cmd.exe /k cd %1

Or just copy paste the following code In notepad and save it as cmd.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Command]

""="Command Prompt"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Command\command]

""="cmd.exe /k cd %1"

Folders

Folder Pictures

We all know that images within a folder show up in Thumbnail view of the folder. You can manually set only one picture to show up by going to Properties>Customize>Choose Picture.

You can do this by another way also, let say you have a Folder having a lot of picture to show a picture in thumbnail view just RENAME the PICTURE to FOLDER.JPG and you are Done!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Folders

Thumbnail size and Quality

To increase/decrease the thumbnail size and quality just open Regedit and navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

Now create two DWORD value named

ThumbnailSize and ThumbnailQuality and give their value as you wants. I recommend ThumbnailSize=225 (decimal) and ThumbnailQuality=100 (decimal)

 

 

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New Post 8/14/2008 11:13 AM
User is offline Ritesh Kawadkar
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Re: TipS n TrIcKs let TWeaK Some MoRE 

some more tips updated



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New Post 8/14/2008 2:35 PM
User is offline Vishal Gupta
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Re: TipS n TrIcKs let TWeaK Some MoRE 

Thanks mate.


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New Post 8/14/2008 2:48 PM
User is offline Rahul Manekari
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Re: TipS n TrIcKs let TWeaK Some MoRE 

nice tips ... thx


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New Post 8/14/2008 11:09 PM
User is offline dmudgal
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Re: TipS n TrIcKs let TWeaK Some MoRE 

usefull ones.....will remember these............thanks


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