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Remove “Shortcut to” in shortcuts

Posted by: Helen on: July 16, 2006

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
Value Name: link
Data Type: REG_BINARY (Binary Value)
Value Data: (00 00 00 00 = No Shortcut Text)
[http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/339/]

Change thumbnail sizes

Posted by: Helen on: July 16, 2006

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
Value Name: ThumbnailSize, ThumbnailQuality
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: Size in pixels, Quality Percentage
[http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1066/]

Change the size of Windows icons

Posted by: Helen on: July 16, 2006

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
Value Name: Shell Icon Size
Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
Value Data: Size in Pixels (Default = 32)
[http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/263/]

Cover Art for Windows Media Player

Posted by: Helen on: July 16, 2006

Windows Media Player will display the cover art for albums as it plays the tracks — if it found the picture on the Internet when you copied the tracks from the CD. If it didn’t, or if you have lots of pre-WMP music files, you can put your own copy of the cover art in [...]

Faster Start menu

Posted by: Helen on: July 16, 2006

The Start Menu can be leisurely when it decides to appear, but you can speed things along by changing the registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop/MenuShowDelay from the default 400 to something a little snappier. Like 0.
[http://www.metrocast.net/~dragontears/20things.html]


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