How To Create Registry Tweaks

[Jackstraw]

Hi-

I am a registry noob. I have a list of tweaks I make to desktops. I currently do this manually. I am wanting to create a *.reg file that will just blast all my changes in to the registry. I have listed below some of my tweaks I typically do. I know the list is long but if somebody could just point me in the direction how to do this or how to find the keys in the registry I would greatly appreciate it.

thanks

Customize the Start Menu

(1) Right Click the taskbar and select properties

• Uncheck Hide Inactive icons

• Select the Start Menu tab. Make sure the Start Menu radio button is

check and select customize.

• Check Large icons

• Change Number of programs on Start menu to 0.

• Uncheck E-mail under the Show on Start menu section.

• Select the Advanced tab

• Under Start menu settings uncheck Highlight newly installed programs

• Under Recent documents uncheck List my most recently opened

documents

• Under Start menu items  uncheck Help and Support

• Under Start menu items  My Documents check Don’t display this item

• Under Start menu items  My Music check Don’t display this item

• Under Start menu items  My Pictures check Don’t display this item

• Under Start menu items  System Administrative Tools check Display on the All Programs menu

• Under Start menu items  uncheck My Network Places

• Under Start menu items  uncheck Set Program Access Defaults

(2) Right-click the desktop  Properties. On the Themes tab, set to Windows XP (Modified). On the Screen Saver tab, set to Starfield simulation, cut the Warp speed setting to half, cut the starfield density to 25 stars, password protect it

(3) Right-click the desktop  Properties. On the Screen Saver tab select the Power button. Under Power Schemes set the Power settings to Presentation mode

(4) Right Click the desktop  Properties. Select the Desktop tab then Customize Desktop

• Under Desktop icons check My Computer

• Under Desktop icons check My Network Places

• Under Desktop icons check Internet Explorer

• Under Desktop cleanup uncheck Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days

(5) Set Recycle Bin size to 1%.

(6) Start  Settings  Control Panel  Folder Options  on the General tab under Click items as follows select Single-Click to open an item and underline icon titles only when I point to them. On the View tab, under Files and Folders check all. Under Hidden files and folders check show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide extensions for known file types, uncheck Hide protected operating system files, and uncheck Use Simple File Sharing. On the Offline files tab and uncheck Enable Offline Files , click Apply to all folders, close all open windows

(7) Disable the computer browser service

(8) Right click My Computer  Properties Goto the Advanced tab and select the Environment Variables button. Under User variable for xxxbkup change the variable Temp/Tmp to C:\temp. Under System variables change the variable Temp/Tmp to C:\temp. If there is not a directory C:\temp create one.

(9) Right click My Computer  Properties Goto the Advanced tab and select Error Reporting Check Disable error reporting and make sure there is a check in But notify me when critical errors occur

(10) Right click My Computer  Properties Goto the System Restore tab and put a check in Turn off System Restore

(11) Right click My Computer  Properties. Goto the Remote tab. Uncheck Allow Remote Assistance invitations to be sent from this computer and check Allow users to connect remotely to this computer

(12) Open Internet Explorer  Select Tools  Internet Options. On the General tab under Temporary Internet files select the Settings button Change the amount of diskspace to use to 20mb. Click OK. Under History set the Days to keep pages in history to 0

(13) Right click the desktop  Properties. Select the Appearance tab. Select the Advanced button. Under the Item drop down dialog box select ToolTip. Under Color 1 change the color to yellow. Click OK. Click OK

[puntoMX]

Just PMed you, gona send you a nice file...

EDIT: Just emailed you, I hope you have enough info for now

[^_^]

or the registry tweak page in the unattended section has a pretty nice compilation of tweaks

it's in an attached file

you might even find stuff in there that you didn't think of

prepare for some reading tho, it's alot of text

[Taggs]

http://www.winguides.com/registry/

has a few registry tweaks any may help you.

IMHO they are all possible, you just need to "play" a bit to find out what and where they are!

Good Luck

[Jackstraw]

Is there a tool I can use that will track changes in my registry. That way I could make a change figure out which key it is then just export it.

[bucketbuster]

Is there a tool I  can use that will track changes in my registry.  That way I could make a change figure out which key it is then just export it.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

RegShot (=free)

[oftentired]

RegShot

[matrix0978]

Yeah prapthmal has a windows XP Registry file. I forgot where i got it but its very useful i use it on most of my computers. Youll have to ask him.

[prathapml]

err.... Its a pinned topic in Unattended Windows forum.

[Jackstraw]

If I want to remove the Recent Documents from the start menu do I need both of the registry entries below?

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

"NoRecentDocsMenu"=dword:00000000

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

"Start_ShowRecentDocs"=dword:00000000

[puntoMX]

If you don´t show them I would disable them too. I also have them disabled and shown on my computers too. I don´t like that people see what file is opened last .