Desktop Related Registry Keys and Application Performance

Desktop Related Registry Keys and Application Performance

Enabling command-line completion

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor] “CompletionChar”=dword:00000009

Set to the ASCII value of the desired key. 09 means the TAB key

Disabling Shortcuts Created Resolving to UNC Paths

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

For all users on the machine

Disabled “LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo”=dword:00000000

Enabled “LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo”=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

For individual users

Disabled “LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo”=dword:00000000

Enabled “LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo”=dword:00000001

Preventing the “Shortcut to…” text from appearing on new shortcuts

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] Disabled “link”=hex:00000000

Enabled “link”=hex:00000001

Thumbnails of BMP files

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Paint.Picture\DefaultIcon]

@=”%1″

Display the currently logged in user and machine name for the “My Computer” icon

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}] @=hex(2):25,55,53,45,52,4e,41,4d,45,25,20,6f,6e,20,25,43,4f,4d,50,55,54,45,52,4e,41,4d,45,25,00

This should be a value of type “REG_EXPAND_SZ”, containing the text “%USERNAME% on %COMPUTERNAME%” Unfortunately, attempting to insert this value by importing a .REG file does NOT seem to work! The value has to be entered using REGEDT32.EXE.

Position Wallpaper at any location

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

“Wallpaperoriginx”=”Horizontal Distance in Pixels“

“Wallpaperoriginy”=”Vertical Distance in Pixels”

Display Hi-Color Icons

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]

“Shell Icon BPP”=”16”

Full window drag

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] Disable “DragFullWindows”=”0”

Enable “DragFullWindows”=”1”

IntelliMouse scroll rate

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]

“WheelScrollLines”=”String Value between 0 and FFFFFFFF. Default is 3 ” Setting to 0 disables the Wheel. Setting to FFFFFFFF will cause a wheel turn to act as if the PgUp or PgDn button were pressed

PS/2 mouse sampling rate

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters]

“SampleRate”=dword: Value between 0 and 200. Default is 60

Increasing menu responsiveness

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]

Disabled “MenuShowDelay”=” Value between 0 and 999 signifying the delay in milliseconds. Default is 200.”

Disabling the Windows animations

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] Disabled “MinAnimate”=”0”

Enabled “MinAnimate”=”1”

Colour used to display compressed files and folders

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]

“AltColor”=hex:00BBGGRR

Turn off smooth scrolling

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] Disabled “SmoothScroll”=hex:00000000

Enabled “SmoothScroll”=hex:00000001

Default state of NumLock

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard] Off “InitialKeyboardIndicators”=dword:00000000

On “InitialKeyboardIndicators”=dword:00000002

Enable live scrolling in Microsoft Word

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Word\Options] Disabled “LiveScrolling”=”0”

Enabled “LiveScrolling”=”1”

Change location of system and special folders

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]

“AppData”=”Location of directory” “Cache”=”Location of directory” “Cookies”=”Location of directory” “Desktop”=”Location of directory” “Favorites”=”Location of directory” “Fonts”=”Location of directory” “History”=”Location of directory” “NetHood”=”Location of directory” “Personal”=”Location of directory” “PrintHood”=”Location of directory” “Programs”=”Location of directory” “Recent”=”Location of directory” “SendTo”=”Location of directory” “Start Menu”=”Location of directory” “Startup”=”Location of directory” “Templates”=”Location of directory”