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  Tuesday, September 15, 2009 – Permalink –

Thumbnail Sizing

Just right


You can change the size of your thumbnails by adding a new value to the registry. The range is between 32 and 256. Pick one that fits your prescription.


  1. Click Start and click Run.
  2. Type regedit and click OK.
  3. Locate the following registry key: 
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer.
  4. From the Edit menu, point to New, and click DWORD Value.
  5. Type in ThumbnailSize and press Enter.
  6. Double click the new value. Enter in a hexadecimal value between 32 and 256.
  7. Close the registry editor.
This tip was brought up by Lockergnome.com:
 Change The Size Of Your Thumbnails




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  Tuesday, July 28, 2009 – Permalink –

Stop Spock Salute

No more three fingers


If you are tired of crunching down three keys to logon your machine, here is the way to get rid of Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

It does involve a registry hack so be careful and back up the entries before doing this.

  1. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

  2. Value Name: DisableCAD

  3. Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)

  4. Value Data: (0 = Require Ctrl+Alt+Delete, 1 = Disable)
For more tricks try
Winguides.com:
Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete Before Logon




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  Monday, April 27, 2009 – Permalink –

Change Your Name

Change your company


Ever work at a computer that had been assigned to someone else in the past and be bothered by seeing their name pop up all the time?

You can take charge of your own life!

  1. Go to the Start button and open up the Control Panel
  2. Select User Accounts and click on the account that you wish to Change
  3. Click the "Change my name" option
Another way is to:
  1. Go to Start>Run

  2. Type: regedit

  3. Find:
    HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current Version

  4. On the right pane, look for 'RegisteredOwner'

  5. Right click the RegisteredOwner key to edit it

  6. Right click the entry and select Modify

  7. You could also change the RegisteredOrganization.




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<Doug Klippert@ 3:35 AM

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  Tuesday, April 21, 2009 – Permalink –

Stop That Ballon!

Turn off pop-ups


There's a hard way and an easy way.

Sort of hard:


Balloon pop-ups typically appear when new programs and hardware are installed, when disk space becomes limited. If you do not want balloon pop-ups to appear, you can prevent them by setting values in the registry.

  1. Go to Start>Run, type Regedit

  2. In the Root list, select HKEY_CURRENT_USER

  3. Find Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

  4. For EnableBalloonTips, the value 2 enables balloon pop-ups and the value 0 disables them.
    For Start_NotifyNewApps, the value 1 enables balloon pop-ups and the value 0 disables them.

  5. Click OK
Note When EnableBalloonTips is disabled, enabling Start_NotifyNewApps has no effect.
Microsoft Developers Network:
 MSDN.Microsoft.com/


And, sort of easy:
  1. Right-click the Start button
  2. Choose Properties
  3. Choose the tab Start Menu and then the Customize button
  4. Select the Advanced tab
  5. Remove the check by "Highlight newly installed programs"
  6. Then OK your way out





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  Monday, April 06, 2009 – Permalink –

Logon Welcome Warning

Opening notice



You can write and display your own warning notice (up to 256 characters).

It takes just a little trip into the bowels of the Registry editor.

Go to the Start button.

Choose Run and type Regedit

Hit Enter:
  1. Registry Key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

  2. Modify or Create the Value Name
    [LegalNoticeCaption]

  3. Data Type:
    REG_SZ [String Value]

  4. Value Name:
    LegalNoticeCaption

  5. Value Data for LegalNoticeCaption:
    [Type the Caption for the Dialog Box]
  1. Modify or Create the Value Name
    [LegalNoticeText]

  2. Data Type:
    REG_SZ [String Value]

  3. Value Name:
    LegalNoticeText

  4. Value Data for LegalNoticeText:
    [Type the Data for the Legal Notice]
Exit Registry Reboot

Support.microsoft.com:
How to Enable a Warning Logon Welcome

TheElderGeek.com:
Create Legal Notice Logon Dialog Box

Winguides.com:
Legal Notice Dialog Box




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  Monday, February 02, 2009 – Permalink –

Don't Display

Logon, Logoff, Startup and Shutdown Status Messages


To turn these off:

Start Regedit
Go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system
If it is not already there, create a DWORD value named DisableStatusMessages

Give it a value of 1


To turn on:


Locate and then click the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.

Type verbosestatus, and then press ENTER.

Double-click the new key that you created, type 1 in the Value data box, and then click OK.

Quit Registry Editor.

NOTE: Windows does not display status messages if the following key is present and the value is set to 1:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableStatusMessages

Verbose Status Messages




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<Doug Klippert@ 3:09 AM

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