Windows 98 Registry Tips 100 (Top)

1. Auto Refresh

Each time you add a folder to the window or delete an object, you need to press the button to refresh the window, which is very troublesome. The automatic refresh can be achieved by modifying the registry.

Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCURRENTCONTRO LSETCONTROLUPDATE to modify the "UPDATEMODE" value from "1" to "0".

2. Modify system copyright information

Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMICROSOFTDEVEOPERSETUP to save all copyright information generated when Windows98 is installed in its right window. Right click on these serial value keys to modify it. You can modify the original copyright information of the system without reinstalling Windows 98.

3. Speed ​​up Windows 98 startup speed

Windows 98 can automatically load some programs to run at startup, and some programs are placed in the startup group in the "Start" menu, some important System programs that do not require user intervention are stored in the registry. If you want to speed up the startup of Windows98, you can delete these programs appropriately. Programs in the startup group can be easily removed via the "Taskbar". If the program is not in the startup group, it needs to be removed by modifying the registry.

Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEMICROSOFTWINDOWSCURRENTVERSIONRun to select the boot self-starting program that appears in the right window and delete it.

Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMICROSOFTWINDOWSCURRENTVERSIONRunServices and click the boot self-starter that appears in the right window to delete it.

The difference between Run and RunServices is that the program in Run is run after WINDOWS is initialized, and the program in RunService starts running when the operating system starts, that is, the program in RunServices precedes Programs in Run run, such as power management programs.

4. Delete "Favorites"

"Favorites" in the "Start" menu is designed to facilitate access to the home page, for users who do not have access to the Internet Say it's not very useful, you can delete it. Click HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMICROSOFTWINDOWSCURRENTVERSIONPOLICIESEXPLORER, right click in the right window, then select the "DWORD" command in the "New" menu, name it NoFavoritesMenu, and set its value to "1". Restart your computer.

5. Expanding "Recycle Bin" right mouse button function

"Recycle Bin" is a system level desktop icon in Windows 98, because its right mouse button menu function is not powerful enough, For example, there is no "delete" and "rename" function in the "Recycle Bin" right-click menu, which brings some inconvenience to the actual application. For this reason, we can expand the menu function by modifying the registry.

Using the REGEDIT used earlier in this article, open to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}ShellFolder. Seeing that the value named Attributes on the right is 40 01 00 20, this is the key. If you are a master, you know that each file has four attributes: read-only, implicit, system, and document. Each attribute has a specific Numbers, if the file has multiple attributes, just add all the numbers together, and that's the point. The following is the meaning of the first character:

Value of the right mouse button menu

01 00 00 00 Copy

02 00 00 00 Cut

03 00 00 00 Copy and cut

10 00 00 00 Rename

20 00 00 00 Delete

30 00 00 00 Rename and delete

40 00 00 00 Properties

50 00 00 00 Rename and Properties

53 00 00 00 Copy, Cut, Rename, Properties

60 00 00 00 Delete and Properties

63 00 00 00 Delete, Properties, Copy, Cut,

70 00 00 00 Rename, Delete, and Properties

73 00 00 00 Heavy < Br>

6. Disable the “Folder Options” setting in the Start menu.
Open the HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesexplore branch, create a new DWORD value "NoSetFolders" in the right pane, and then double-click "NoSetFolder" key value, enter 1 in the "key value" box in the dialog box that appears.

7. Disable the "Task and Start Menu" setting in the Start menu. "Open the HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesexplore branch and create a new DWORD value in the right pane"NoSetTaskbar" , then double-click the "NoSetTaskbar" key value and enter 1 in the "key value" box in the dialog box that appears.

8. Hide the subfolders in the Start menu

Open the HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesexplore branch, create a new DWORD value in the right pane "NoStartMenuSubFolders", and double-click the "NoStartMenuSubFolders" key value in In the dialog box that appears, enter 1 in the "key value" box.

9.Hide all drives in “My Computer