Registry Techniques!

1.To add Items to the Start Button using Registry
The best way to edit the windows registry keys, always export or backup the whole windows registry keys on backup drive before editing.

First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.

In Registry Editor go to left hand panel, and find HKey_Classes_Root / Directory / Shell

Here Right click on Shell folder option and add any new key with descriptive name and Press Enter.

Now Right click on that key and give the full path of that program you are interested to add in start button. For example if you want to add MS word, then full path may be C:\program file\msoffice\msword.EXE.

Now close all open programs and check the changes in your computer Start button

2.Automatic Screen Refresh

To refresh your screen automatically you should edit your system Registry

First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.

In Registry Editor panel go to the path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet /

Control / UpdateMode

Here in right hand side panel edit the DWORD value to be between 1 and 5.

Now restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

3.Set the status of NUM LOCK key enabled automatically.

NUM LOCK status is disable by default and if you want your NUM LOCK key is enable automatically before a user presses CTRL+ALT+DEL to log on. You need to edit the registry of your computer to change this status enabled.

Click Start button then type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.

Here locate the location to:

HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Keyboard

Here in right side panel, double click on the value InitialKeyboardIndicators then change its value data from 0 to 2.

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

4.To close non-responsive programs automatically

You usually end tasks the non-responsive programs manually using windows task manager with (CTRL + ALT +DELETE) keys.

First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option. Here locate the location to:

Go to Hkey_Current_User\Control Panel\Desktop

Here in right side panel, double click on AutoEndTasks and here its default value is 0. Now change it to 1. Now windows will close your all non-responsive programs automatically.

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

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