30 instances of the Windows 98 registry application

1. Prevent anonymous user logins

Although Windows can customize its own user interface and assign a password for each user, anyone can click the “Cancel” button in the login window or press ESC to enter the system. The so-called anonymous login. The following method can prevent anonymous users from logging in. Create a new DWORD type "MustBeValidated" under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINENetWorkLogon with a value of 1. (Attachment: If you can't get in, you can enter in safe mode and change its value to 0.) Note: This method does not work on peer-to-peer networks.

2. Rearrange input method

You can reorder all input methods as needed, such as putting the most commonly used Wubi input method first. Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USERKeyboard layoutPreload, and then you can see the names of multiple subkeys whose key names are incremented from the number 1. The number of specific subkeys corresponds to the number of input methods installed in the system. If the input method corresponding to the subkey name "“2" is to be exchanged with the input method corresponding to the subkey name ""5”, the input method corresponding to the subkey name “5” is moved forward to The second place, the method is as follows. Right click on the sub-key "2" and select "Rename" to rename the sub-key "2" to "<quo;22" or other non-existent names, then sub-keys 5” Renamed to “2”, and finally renamed the subkey "“22”" to “5”.

3. Blocking Start Menu Features

You can reorder all input methods as needed. Create three new DWORD values ​​in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Policies Explorer with the names "NoRun" (masked "running”), “NoFind" (block “ find “), “NoClose<quo; (block “ ; Close the system “), the value is set to 1, after restarting the system, execute the "Run" & "The system is closed" command prompts the operation is restricted and canceled, and you will find the "Start" menu The "Find" option is gone. To reset its settings, you can delete the corresponding key or set the key to 0.

4. Hide all desktop icons

Locate the subkey HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer, create a new DWORD value of "NoDesktop" with a value of 1. After rebooting the system, you will find that the desktop has become empty.

5. Quickly open file editing

Maybe you often use a program to open files for editing, and the extensions of these files are arbitrary. For convenience, we can add this program to the right-click menu. Take WordPad as an example. Under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*, create a new “shell“ subkey, and under it, create a new “wordpad“ subkey. Double click on the right side of the window and click on the default ” in the “key value” Enter "Printing Board" in the input, and then create the next subkey " command" under the "wordpad" subkey. Enter "ld:;c:program" in the "Default" setting. Filesaccessorieswordpad.exe %1”. No need to restart the system, now go back to "My Computer" or "Resource Manager" right click on any file (of course, WordPad can be loaded, regardless of association or not), select “ WordPad” You can quickly open the file for editing.

6. Clear Run Program Record

In the “Start/Run” dialog box, the past run record is saved in the “Open/ldquo; Window drop-down menu. We can delete it directly in the Registry Editor: in HKEY_USER. DefaultSoftwareMicrosoftWindows CurrentVersionExploe rRunMRU saves these operations in the right window, deleting unnecessary string values.

7. Unable to unload the program

We sometimes encounter this situation. After uninstalling an application in the Control Panel's "Add/Remove Applications", it is found that the program is still in the list. At this time, you can delete it from the list by the following method. Open the registry editor and go to the directory “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Uninstall” to delete the item corresponding to the application according to the listed registration file.

8. Change the name of the Word inserted into a Chinese character

The English name in the WORD menu insert/object is often difficult to adapt. We can change it to Chinese characters in a simple way. In the Registry Editor In the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTEqation 3.0 right window key, the default value is changed from "Microsoft Equation 3.0” to "Formula Editor 3.0”

9. Improve the speed of the resource manager refresh

When the user adds or deletes a folder in the "Windows Explorer", you can view the latest refresh results by pressing the F5 key. However, each time it is going to be very troublesome. In fact, this refresh can be fully automated by modifying the registry. The specific method is: open the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE System CurrentControlSet Control Update branch, and include an UpdateMode key name in the Update subkey. The key value is 01. Double-click UpdateMode to change 01 to 00.