Change The Cursor Blink Rate

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

CursorBlinkRate=530

Tweak: Change the value of CursorBlinkRate to increase or Decrease Cursor’s BlinkRate

Automatically End Tasks at Shutdown or Log Off(you will not get the “End now” Dialog)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

AutoEndTasks = 0

Tweak: change AutoEndTasks from 0 to 1

Remove the arrow (in the bottom right corner) of an shortcut icon

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile

Tweak: delete the following entry:

IsShortcut =""

and

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile

Tweak: delete the following entry:

IsShortcut=""

Display your Windows XP version on your desktop

This will display the current version of your Window XP, on the right-bottom corner of your desktop.

• Open the registry editor
• Locate HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
• In the right pane find the value name PaintDesktopVersion
• Set the value to 1

For this tweak to take effect you may need to Logoff or Restart windows.

Close hung applications with less or no delay

This will close the application that is hung with lees or no delay.

• Open the registry editor
• Locate HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
• In the right pane find the value name HungAppTimeout
• Set the value to 0

For this tweak to take effect you may need to Logoff or Restart windows.

Stop moving whole window while dragging

When a window is dragged, u can see the contents inside that window(in Windows XP), u can disable this as follows:

• Open the registry editor
• Locate HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
• In the right pane find the value name DragFullWindows
• The default value for DragFullWindows is 1, set it to 1

For this tweak to take effect you may need to Logoff or Restart windows.

Increase the speed of your menus

Will decrease the delay in opening the menu, when u pause with your mouse on a menu.

• Open the registry editor
• Locate HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
• In the right pane find the value name MenuShowDelay
• The default value for MenuShowDelay is 400, set it to any value less than 400

For this tweak to take effect you may need to Logoff or Restart windows.

Open folder in command prompt option in right click

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd]

@="Command Prompt"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\cmd\command]

@="cmd.exe /k \"cd %L\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd]

@="Command Prompt"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd\command]

@="cmd.exe /k \"cd %L\""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\

{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\cmd]

@="Command Prompt"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\

{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\cmd\command]

@="cmd.exe /k \"cd %L\""

Save the file as

Double click the file to import into your registry.