If your CD-ROM Changer cycles excessively, try out this tip below.

 

 

Set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet \Services\Cdrom\Autorun to zero.

 

Set the "Start Up" of CD Audio in Control Panel / Devices to Manual. Press the Stop button (This may not be required on your installation).

 

Create a shortcut to Explorer (set to minimized) and place it in your Startup folder. Leave it minimized. It will share the CD information with all other copies of Explorer that you open and with all properly written applications.

You can change the logon background color by altering the RGB values at:

 

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors\Background

 

If you set it to 0 0 0 you will have a black background, 255 255 255 is white, and 153 0 0 is this burgundy.

When you install Windows NT, it asks for the user and organization name. If you’ve inherited a system from some other user, or your company’s name changed, you might need to change this data. In the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT

\CurrentVersion key, update the two string values named

 

RegisteredOwner and RegisteredOrganization with the correct info.

Before you delve into the NT Registry, make sure you set up a safety net. NT's backup program (NTBackup) and repair disk utilities (Rdisk) can help you recover if you make a serious error, but only if you use them beforehand.

The original registry editor, REGEDT32 understands features specific to the NT registry such as hives, security settings and environment-expanded values. It presents key values in a hard-to-read fashion, there are no right-click Context menus and the search function works only with key names. Starting with NT 4.0, the Windows 95 Registry Editor (RegEdit) is available for use with NT. RegEdit has much better features than those of REGEDT32.

If you crashed without a backup, you might be able to recover by using the Last Known Good option. Press the spacebar as NT is booting at the blue screen, and press L to boot with the last known good registry.

If you need to change Registry entries using batch files or other automated scripts, you can use REG files. Create REG files by using the Registry/Export Registry File option in RegEdit. Generally, you'll want to export only the smallest subtree of the Registry that you need. To restore the exported values to the Registry from a batch file, use the command line regedit/s myfile.reg.

You can turn off animation that shows windows popping to and from the taskbar by adding a string value named MinAnimate to the HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics key.

 

Set the string value to 0 to turn off animations.

Want to rename your Recycle Bin? Run RegEdit and use the Edit/ Find function to search for the string "Recycle Bin." The first or second occurrence you find should be in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT; you should see an entry that shows a default value of "Recycle Bin." Click the plus sign next to the key, then click on a subkey named ShellFolder. You'll see a binary value named Attributes. The first byte of Attributes is 40. Change it to 50, and you'll be able to rename the Recycle Bin immediately. Just right-click on the Recycle Bin icon and select Rename.

Windows NT lets you decide if you want NumLock on or off whenever you log on. Find the key HKCU\ControlPanel\Keyboard and change the value for InitialKeyboardIndicators. Set the value to 0 to turn NumLock off; make the value 2 if you want NumLock on.