There is no group policy to do the Windows 7 Home Edition optimization

Clear goals

In general, the pre-installed Win7 Home Edition computer configuration is relatively low, especially some notebooks and netbooks, and the user's computer knowledge And the level of technology is also limited, so this article is optimized for the two most representative goals in the daily use of computers, mainly including the following two points.
First, more secure. The most representative is to lock the IE home key value to prevent malicious tampering.
Second, more efficient. Turn off some useless features, such as the system's own burning feature to save system resources.

Safety first locks IE, safely accesses the Internet, and browses freely

The most common problem encountered by users is that their IE homepage has been tampered with, resulting in a lot of inexplicable pop-ups after opening IE. The window can be said to be inexhaustible and incessant, which is very troublesome. This is often caused by malicious tampering and hijacking of the IE homepage when the user is online or installing some software. Therefore, locking the IE home page is very necessary.

In the Ultimate version, users can lock the homepage through Group Policy's "Disable Change Home Page Settings". For the home version, the key value of the IE homepage is actually controlled by the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Main" key value, and the "Start Page" value in the right window is the homepage of IE (as shown in the figure). 1)). Therefore, to lock the IE homepage without being tampered with, we only need to set the current account's permission on the above key values ​​to "read only".

You can also make a "regeini.ini" on the D drive, start the command prompt as an administrator, and type "regeini d:\ egeini" ("regeini.exe" is The system comes with a command to modify the registry permissions).

Tip: Run as administrator: Click “Start → All Programs → Accessories”, then right click on “Command Prompt” and select “Administrator” in the pop-up menu. Run".

After completion, the user can only read the above key values ​​without changing the permissions (as shown in Figure 2). The user can change the home page in IE, but the settings will not be saved. Still the original homepage, naturally it has reached the goal of locking the homepage.

Tip: The registry modification generally needs to restart the system to take effect. If it needs to take effect immediately, you can open the task manager, terminate the "explorer.exe" process, and then create a new task through the task manager. Then type "explorer.exe" and run it again.

Tip: How to change the homepage after locking?

Expand the above key values ​​of the registry, right click on the "Main" key value, then select "Permissions", select "Advanced" in the pop-up window, then switch to the "Owner" tab, the current The administrator account is set to the owner (if the current account does not appear in the list, click "Other Accounts" and manually enter the current account name).

Click "OK" to return to the permission setting window and click "Add" to add the current administrator account to the list, and set the account's read permission for the key value to "Full Control", refresh the registration. The key value of the "Start Page" can be changed after the table.

In addition to locking IE, there are some other security optimization settings, users can selectively optimize according to their own conditions, specific optimization projects and operation methods can refer to the following table.

Disable the built-in burning system to save limited resources

The default settings of some systems may not be suitable for all users. For example, if the netbook user does not have a CD-ROM drive, then the system comes with a burning function. No use. Even if some brand computers have optical drives, there may not be a lot of common users using the system's own burning function, and third-party software can be used to achieve better results, so we can turn off burning to save system resources.

Similarly, in order to facilitate everyone's operation, double-click the "noburn.reg" file in the download file to import the registry, the optimization is complete, simple? Let's verify, if your computer has an optical drive, then open the "computer" now, right click on the drive icon, you will find that the "burn to disc" menu has disappeared (as shown in Figure 3), because The function has been turned off!

Tip: How to restore the disc burning function?

Start the Registry Editor, expand to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\PolicIEs\\Explorer", and then delete the "Explorer" item. After restarting, you can resume the burning function.

In addition to turning off the system's own CD burning function, users can also turn off the system's "send error report" function; if the user is not connected to the printer, you can also turn off the system print service (more detailed system service optimization) Please see the "Computer Report" 10th issue of "Let Win7 accelerate the use of services, please leave the article"; if the user's computer hard disk space is limited, you can also selectively turn off the system restore protected partition and so on.

Please refer to the table below for the specific operation method.

From the above, we can see that although the home version does not have a group policy, we can also use the registry editor and the system itself to achieve the group policy optimization function. Compared with the previous operating system, Win7 has been greatly improved in terms of security and ease of use. As long as the UAC function, IE protection mode and NTFS permission provided by Win7 itself are combined, high security effects can be obtained. Therefore, for the average home user, the home version is enough, not necessarily to install the flagship version. And if the average user has more needs, as long as you have a certain amount of computer knowledge, you can completely make the home version become the "flagship version" for your needs!