@prathapml

Thnx, for the help!

Is it also a good idea to put a "last time update: " date at the first post!?

This way we only have to look at when there are changes made!

Lets say.. some kind of changelog.

I'm happy for now. (time to eat something now)

the device manager to right click my computer menu tweak is hard coded to D:

Is there a way to make a system variable work there? I tried to put in %systemdrive% but it didn't work.

;-----
 ;-----  Adds Device Manager right click of MY Computer
 ;-----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\DevMgr]
@="Device Manager"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\DevMgr\command]
@="mmc.exe D:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM32\\devmgmt.msc"

Here's one I like to add when I do mine. This works for U.S. but not sure about other countries.

;-----
 ;-----  Add Government and Military to auto url searches
 ;-----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\UrlTemplate]
"5"="www.%s.gov"
"6"="www.%s.mil"

@joebells

Did you try?:

@="mmc.exe %systemroot%\\devmgmt.msc"

FWIW, I haven't either as of yet, but was asking.

I found it just use double percent signs like this

;-----
 ;-----  Adds Device Manager right click of MY Computer
 ;-----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\DevMgr]
@="Device Manager"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\DevMgr\command]
@="mmc.exe %%SYSTEMDRIVE%%\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM32\\devmgmt.msc"

also it looks like some of the internet explorer tweaks are hard coded to C: they should probalby be changed to %%systemdrive%%

This is incorrect as well:

;-----  Force DLL To Unload From Memory
;-----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AlwaysUnloadDLL]
"Default"="1"

should be:

;-----  Force DLL To Unload From Memory
;-----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"AlwaysUnloadDLL"="1"

also, found another one I haven't seen in there I use:

;-----  Preset Folder Customizations for dialog box.
;-----  Sets default to My Computer
;-----  then lists My Computer, C:, D:, E:, and Network Places on side
;-----  C: here is represented as %systemdrive% in the registry
;-----
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg32\PlacesBar]
"Place0"=dword:00000011
"Place1"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,44,00,72,00,69,00,76,\
  00,65,00,25,00,5c,00,00,00
"Place2"="D:\\"
"Place3"="E:\\"
"Place4"=dword:00000012
@=dword:00000011

Thank you for sharing, I am happy with registry tweak...because my interesting is registry tweak...

that tweak might not even apply to xp. I see on microsoft site that it says

For operating systems prior to Windows 2000, you can shorten the inactive period by adding the following information to the registry.

on this page http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....g/debugging.asp

that tweak might not even apply to xp. I see on microsoft site that it says

For operating systems prior to Windows 2000, you can shorten the inactive period by adding the following information to the registry.

on this page http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....g/debugging.asp

It's like much anything else it's merely personal preference, I for one have seen a big improvement using this tweak in XP, I have used it since my first use of XP when it was released. As for the proper way of adding it, it's not a seperate key but a value added to a string, inside the key. If you use some poorly written programs which make use of .dll's then it will kill them when they are not in use, instead of letting them continue running in the background using valuable resources.

I'm gonna go ahead and use it myself also. I was just searching on it and saw that on the microsoft website so I thought I'd post it.

also, I'm pretty sure that

;-----
 ;-----  Disable Windows File Protection
 ;-----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"SFCDisable"=dword:ffffff9d

should be

;-----
 ;-----  Disable Windows File Protection
 ;-----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"SFCSetting"=dword:ffffff9d

since this is going with the canadian dot-ca version, the rest should be dot-ca as well. (customize to fit your country)

;-----  
;-----  Add Google As Main Start Page
;-----  
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Start Page"="http://www.google.ca/"
;-----  
;-----  Add Google As Main Search Page
;-----  
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Search Page"="http://www.google.com"
"Search Bar"="http://www.google.com/ie"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL]
""="http://www.google.com/keyword/%s"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search]
"SearchAssistant"="http://www.google.com/ie"
;-----  
;-----  Search with google from the address bar instead of MSN
;-----  
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\G]
@="http://www.google.com/search?q=%s"

NUMBER 2)

Here's a set of customized entries, can someone tell me what that last line mean?

;-----  
;-----  Set autocomplete to full off
;-----  
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoComplete]
"AutoSuggest"="no"
"Append Completion"="no"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Use FormSuggest"="no"
"FormSuggest Passwords"="no"
"FormSuggest PW Ask"="no"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\New Windows]
"PopupMgr"="yes"

sorry for triple post, but I don't like long posts.

Does:

dword:00000001

mean "yes" or "no" (enabled or disabled)

2)

;-----
;-----  Disable Background Intelligent Transfer Service
;-----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BITS]
"Start"=dword:00000004

Doesn't Windows Update require BITS to be active?

Doesn't Windows Update require BITS to be active?

No

Well, I HAD to clarify this - crahak please check if its not required. Maybe you meant the auto-update (since auto-update works even without BITS). Also, until XPSP1, and during the previous version of Windows Update (v4), BITS was not needed. But over here, on XP SP2 + WU v5, unless BITS is enabled, windows update doesn't download files (which is effectively "doesn't work").

--> So that means WU requires BITS to be active.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\New Windows]
"PopupMgr"="yes"

Maybe that tweak says to enable the pop-up blocker.

"dword:00000001" means positive (yes/enabled). Zero would be "no/disabled".