Registry Guide for Windows

The Registry Guide for Windows®, formerly RegEdit.com, provides an extensive range of registry tweaks, tricks & hacks for optimizing, enhancing and securing the Windows® XP, 2000, NT, 98, 95, Me and Vista operating systems. Get started by exploring the categorized tweaks below: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Windows Logon Customization

Various windows related things happens during logon can be customized by changing values under the key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

This key contains various featured values that can be changed according to our needs. For various uses of these, we can google according to our requirements for these registry keys.

Various useful information related to PC

Here is the link that contains various softwares that are very useful for monitoring various features of your PC. like CrystalDiskInfo, which is a S.M.A.R.T. based utility that supports not only internal drives, but both USB and IEEE1394’s as well. It displays an incredible amount of simple and advanced disk information, and may always be running in the background. This includes temperature readings, read/write errors and power management tools, running at all times of the day. ........

http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html

Simon's Win32 Cheat Sheet

This sheet summarises all the things I do to make my Win2k machine more useful to me. I've summarised it here partly for my own benefit (I have to repeat the process on each new machine) and partly in the hope that it may be be of use to others.

Please tell me, simonpj@microsoft.com, if there are things you find useful that aren't mentioned here.

I have a Win2k Machine, but I've added possibly-inaccurate notes about Win95 too. In general, Win95/Win98 behave the same, and WinNT/Win2k behave the same.. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .