No group strategy to do Win7 Home Edition optimization

For Windows 7 Ultimate, you can do a lot of Group Policy optimization settings, but if you install Windows 7 Home Basic Edition (hereafter referred to as Win7), and there is no group policy, how to optimize in this case? This article discusses how to optimize Windows 7 without a group policy.

Clear Objectives

Under normal circumstances, the pre-installed Win7 Home Edition computer configuration is relatively low, especially some notebooks and netbooks, and the user's computer knowledge and technical level is limited, so this article Optimized for the two most representative goals in the daily use of computers, mainly including the following two points.

First, it is safer. 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.

Security 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, 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 home page of IE. 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 The command to modify the registry permissions) is fine.

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 the completion, the user can only read the above key values ​​without changing the permissions. The user can change the homepage in IE, but the settings will not be saved. After closing, the IE is still the original homepage, naturally Achieved the purpose of locking the home page.

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, and then enter " Explorer.exe" can be re-run.

Tip: How to change the homepage after locking?

Expand the above key values ​​of the registry, right click on the "Main" key, 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 this 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 circumstances, specific optimization projects and operation methods can refer to the following table.

Disabling the built-in burning system to save limited resources

Some system default settings may not be suitable for all users. For example, if the netbook user does not have an optical drive, then the system has no use for burning. . 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 CD-ROM icon, you will find that the "burn to disc" menu has disappeared, 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 disc 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; if the user's computer hard disk space is limited You can also selectively turn off system-protected partitions and more.

From the above we can see that although the home version does not have a group policy, but with the registry editor and the system itself, we can also achieve Group Policy optimization. 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!