Tag Archive | "registry"

Free Up RAM Memory In Vista Quickly And Easily

Saturday, December 13, 2008

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Do you want to free up your RAM memory a little in Windows Vista? You don’t need any software to clean up the memory, you only need to perform some basic maintenance tasks, that’s all.

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How To Remove The Word “Shortcut” From New Shortcuts In Vista

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

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Do you get annoyed with the word Shortcut written next to every new shortcut you make in Windows Vista? If yes, then you should consider removing it. The best possible way that I could find to remove it was through Registry hacking which doesn’t require any 3rd party tools to be installed.

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How To Transfer Registry Favorites To Another Computer

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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Do you access the same registry key again and again while using the Registry Editor and now want to transfer it to another  computer? In Windows Registry there is an option that you can use to add registry keys as Favorites, this can be done using the Add to Favorites option in the Favorites menu, [...]

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How To Speed Up Windows Shutdown Process

Sunday, November 16, 2008

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Are you frustrated that your Windows XP takes to much time to shutdown when your rushing to go somewhere else? If this is the situation that you want to shutdown the computer in hurry, you can make some tweaking to your registry so that it will help you to speed the this process. We have [...]

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Optimize And Fix Registry In Windows 2000/XP Using NTRegOpt

Friday, November 14, 2008

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Is your PC running extremely slow and keep freezing or crashing all the time? Do you receive mysterious error messages? These errors are generally caused by instable registry. Windows Registry is a part of operating system that stores settings and options of the system and it contains data including all hardware information, software user preferences, [...]

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Remove Useless Items From Right-Click Context Menu By Hacking Registry

Friday, November 7, 2008

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Have you ever noticed that some applications like Antivirus software, WinZip, SmartFTP, and others, add some items to the context menu when you right-click on a file or folder? Apart from Windows Vista, these software install shell extensions to add applications in the right-click context menu. If you delete the appropriate shell extension in the [...]

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How To Disable Windows Task Manager Using Registry

Friday, October 31, 2008

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Note: If you are looking to enable your task manager if it got disabled by your administrator or some virus, then have a look at this post. This tip is for disabling your task manager, not enable it. Sometimes one needs to disable the task manager to give clients limited access in a network or to [...]

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How To Remove Program Shortcut Or Desktop Shortcut Arrows In Windows Vista

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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Honestly speaking, I do love windows vista but there are so many small awkward stuffs around that makes it look just stupid. Desktop shortcuts is one of them. Have you ever noticed a large arrow on lower-left corner of the icon in every desktop shortcut program? I hate this arrow, and if you have same [...]

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How To Make Backup Of Your Registry In Windows Vista and XP

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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Did you ever forget to make the backup of the registry before making some changes in it, which led to system crash? Every time you need to make changes to your registry, you should make a backup as a precaution. Making a backup is very important and helps the user when he wants to restore [...]

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How To Change The Default Location For Installing Applications

Monday, September 29, 2008

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Windows uses the System Disk for installing any new applications, That is, if your Windows is installed on the C Drive, the default folder where all the applications you install would automatically show up as C:\Program Files , unless of course you change it manually while installing the application’s locations. If you almost always prefer [...]

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