Registry Tweaks – Set Windows 7 to Your Adoptions

No doubt, Windows 7 received the gratitude of the millions. It needs very less modifications to comply with a user’s requisites. It is a well-organized and disciplined operating system, meeting the requirements of a diversified audience. Still an individual might feel arduous catching it up. In such situation, one is instructed to accustom the following tweaks.

It must be noted that all the actions are initiating with a common startup, which is to open Registry Editor. To open this tool:

• Press Windows key on your keyboard
• Type ‘regedit’
• Press Enter to open Registry Editor

ARTIFICE 1: INTERNET EXPLORER 8

Many PCs purchased, have Internet Explorer 8, titled to the Manufacturer’s name. It could be customized with a new name given by following the path below, continued after the three steps mentioned above.

1. Locate and Select the Main key of Internet Explorer via following route
2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
3. Go to Edit, choose New, and create a DWORD (32-bit) Value
4. Name this value as ‘Windows Title’ with a space
5. Double click the newly created value to Modify
6. Put the desired name in the field
7. Click OK to Exit

ARTIFICE 2: SNAPPING

Snapping is the feature that lets a user quickly resize the active window. It also helps comparing different windows side-by-side. Sometimes, it bothers the operator and needs to be deactivated, through the route below.

1. Navigate and Select the Desktop key, via following route
2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
3. Locate the value named ‘WindowArrangementActive’
4. Double click the value to Modify
5. Replace the Value Data, set to ‘1’, with ‘0’
6. Click OK to Exit

ARTIFICE 3: STACKING

If you are fed up of the thumbnail display on every selection of taskbar icon, you have found a way to get rid of this behavior. It is done through editing the registry in the way beneath.

1. Navigate and Select the Advanced key, via following route
2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer Advanced
3. Go to Edit, choose New, and create a DWORD (32-bit) Value
4. Name this value as ‘LastActiveClick’ with a space
5. Double click the newly created value to Modify
6. Put ‘1’ as Value Data to make it Active
7. Click OK to Exit

ARTIFICE 4: MENUS

Although, the impact of applying this buys you a negligible level of optimization, but on an aggregate level, such minute landfills can make a big difference. To speed up the menus dropping fast:

1. Navigate and Select the Desktop key, via following route
2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
3. Locate the value named ‘MenuShowDelay’
4. Double click the value to Modify
5. Replace the Value Data to a lower figure like ‘100’
6. Click OK to Exit

ARTIFICE 5: DISK SPACE CHECKING

It might be a useful tool, occasionally, but is not practiced most of the time. Furthermore, a present user is well aware and does not need to get alerts for such binary level information.

1. Navigate and Select the Explorer key, via following route
2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies\Explorer
3. Go to Edit, choose New, and create a DWORD (32-bit) Value
4. Name this value as ‘NoLowDiskSpaceChecks’
5. Double click the newly created value to Modify
6. Put ‘1’ as Value Data
7. Click OK to Exit

ARTIFICE 6: KERNEL

Kernel is the Windows system file and would run more efficiently while placed in the Primary Memory. As RAM is always considered the memory alive, it executes relatively higher than a hard drive.

1. Navigate and Select the Memory Management key, via following route
2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
3. Locate the value named ‘DisablePagingExecutive’
4. Double click the value to Modify
5. Replace the Value Data with ‘1’
6. Click OK to Exit

ARTIFICE 7: REGISTERED OWNER

This problem is triggered by the owners of a second-hand PC. They wonder to see their own name as Registered Owner. These people are summoned to scribble down the following statements.

1. Navigate and Select the Current Version key, via following route
2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version
3. Locate the value named ‘RegisteredSOwner’
4. Double click the value to Modify
5. Replace the name with the one you desire as Value Data
6. Click OK to Exit

NOTE:

All these tips are subject to modify Windows Registry. Once Modified, Windows Registry is left with some needless files in the database, which causes errors in the registry. You are opined to run a regular scan over the registry, find such errors, and fix them for the inconvenient operations.

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