Typical Microsoft, there are at least three ways of transferring information
from the .reg file. into your registry. There are also a couple of tricky ways that I only mention for completeness.
Double-click the .reg file
Right-click the .reg file, select Merge from the drop-down menu
Once you have added the new values to the registry, what next? How do you view the
new settings? You could take the ruthless approach and reboot the machine. Alternatively, you could run through this progression:
Press F5 - It works in some contexts, e.g. desktop settings.
Close, then reopen the interface, e.g. Control Panel.
Log off / Log on. Works well for many of the HKCU settings.
Here are the settings that you must change in order for my Auto.reg example file to work on
your system.
"AutoAdminLogon"="1"
"DefaultUserName"="xxx" "DefaultPassword"="xxxx0xxxx" "DefaultDomainName"="xxx.xxx". Definitely needed in a domain situation.
Copy
the settings below into a text file. Make the amendments to suit your machine and username, save the file with .reg extension, for example Auto.reg. If necessary, refer to How to transfer the .reg settings
into the registry.
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Which VM's are struggling and thus need more resources.
Which VM's are idle, and so are literally a waste of (disk) space.
The benefit of a good utility such as Solarwinds Virtualization Manager
is that you see the big picture yet drill down into the detail of disk,
memory or CPU.
Media Change Notification (MCN) messages from the CD-ROM driver trigger AutoPlay. However if, these messages are
suppressed then the CD will not automatically start playing. You can
disable Autoplay by configuring the appropriate value of NoDriveTypeAutoRun. Here is an example .reg file.
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The idea is to prevent one user inadvertently locking out another
user account. Stops the name of the last user displaying in the Logon dialog box. Here is my example .reg file:
Note: There was no Public folder on my Vista Desktop, thus, to see this registry hack in action I created an additional 'opposite' script. In this script I set the value of each dword
to zero: "{4336a54d-038b-4685-ab02-99bb52d3fb8b}"=dword:00000000.
What this script below does, is to turn
'hide' off, in plain English, it displayed the Public folder on my Vista desktop.
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Think of all the frustration that this free utility saves when you are
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Is the example script below voodoo? It sure is magic. The code below will change the desktop icon called 'Computer' to display:
Username at MachineName. Copy the instructions below into a text file, save the file with .reg extension, for example Computer.reg. Then refer to
How to transfer the .reg settings into the registry.
Let me take a wild guess. Your organization is not called "Computer Performance", and, your RegisteredOwner is not "Guy". My point is that you should make changes
before you import my Owner.reg file.
Copy the instructions below into a text file, save the file with .reg extension, for example Arrow.reg. Note: For
this .reg example to work, you must get noarrow.ico, unzip and copy to Vista's \windows folder.
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Disable the
annoying UAC 'Continue' pop-up box; copy and paste this .reg example into notepad, save with .reg extension. Double click and merge with your Vista registry.
The technique is the same for all these files. Copy my example into notepad, save the file with .reg extension, then double click and merge with your
registry. Remember to include the name of the Registry Editor, also keep the second line blank. In order to see the fruits of your work, try this progression: press f5 (refresh), logoff / logon,
finally try restarting your computer.
If you need more information on producing .reg files then check out this page:
How to create .reg files.
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