Enable/Disable Thumbnail Caching

One of Explorer's great features is to display a thumbnail of images and

the first frame of the video when seen in Thumbnail view. This is either done when you access the folder or it fetches from the thumbnail cache. Fetching thumbnails from the cache is  lot faster, but will consume a lot of hard disk space, especially if your system is full of images and video.Thankfully you can disable this. or in case you have sufficient space but want to speedup your system then you can enable it in case disabled.

Navigate to:

HCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion  \Explorer\Advanced

Set the DWORD Value DisableThumbnailCache to 1 if you are low on hard disk space. Otherwise chang/leave it at 0 to enable thumbnail caching

Disable User Tracking/Spying in Xp

Did you know your XP was spying on you all this while?

XP has a inbuilt user tracking system uses up precious resources. The system keeps track of the programs run by a user, the paths followed, and the documents used. Disable this to free up system resources. This Registry Hack Disable User Tracking Just open Regedit (START>>RUN>>Type REGEDIT)

Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows

\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Set the DWORD NoInstrumentation to 1. This will disable most of the user tracking features of XP.



This is Useless to most users?except perhaps for system administrators.If particular key to which we asked you to navigate doesn?t exist, you?ll need to create it.Be doubly sure that the path is correct and the key doesn't exist before you create it. Back up your registry before you do it(click here)

Enable /Disable Task manager

Poor thing your Task manager has been disable by admin or by some virus. I will tell you how to enable it. Let's enable it. Go to regedit(START>>>RUN>>>Now type REGEDIT)

Navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\System

Now make the find value DisableTaskMgr change it's Data to one of these as required (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled). This is method is for windows NT but will work on 2000

Enable/Disable REGEDIT

There are several viruses that Disable your Registry Editor. To enable it just follow the following steps based on your version of windows. We will be using dos programing for this.

ON 98 ME, NT, and 2000:

• Open Notepad.


• Copy and paste the following:
  
  REGEDIT4
  
  
  
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows \CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
  
  "DisableRegistryTools" = dword:00000000
  
  


• Save this file as RESTORE.REG. Save it in C: drive.


• Now the file's location is C:\RESTORE.REG


• Click Start and select Run


• Type C:\RESTORE.REG, then press Enter.


• Click Yes at the prompt of the message box.

On Windows XP and Server 2003:

Just replace the code in the notepad file.



REG add

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

/v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

This should enable your regedit. You can also try this

• Start your comp save all inportant data.


• Retart your computer in safe mode with command prompt


• Now type the following command (to enable registry editor)
  
  reg delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows \currentversion\policies\system /v "DisableRegistryTools"
  
  and
  
  run HKEY_Local_Machine\software\microsoft\windows \currentversion\policies\system /v "DisableRegistryTools"

Enable/remove image toolbar

IE has an annoying feature. When ever you hover your mouse over a little floating toolbar comes up with buttons. This toolbar has save, print, and a few other option to do with the image. It ?s pretty useless, since you can just right-click on the image and perform the same options. With this hack you can prevent that toolbar from

appearing. just open regedit(Start>>>Run>>>Type regedit)

Navigate to:

HCU\Software\ Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PhotoSupport

Here, create(right-click &  new) or modify the DWORD Value called MyPics_Hoverbar. Set it to 0 to allow the toolbar to come up, and to1 to prevent it from coming up.Restart Windows or log out and log back in for the change to

take effect.

Disable Search Assistant

The XP search assistant is annoying. Not only does it have a weird number of counter-intuitive search options, it also connects to the Microsoft site without the user?s permission.

Navigate to:

HKEY_CUURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

Set the String value for Use Search Asst to ?no?(without quotes). The default is ?yes?.



This hack will Disable The Search Assistant. Just open Regedit(START>>RUN>>Type REGEDIT)





This is for win xp. You need to restart the computer for the change/effect to take place. Be doubly sure that the path is correct and the key doesn't exist before you create theit. Back up your registry before you do it(click here)