Enhancements

Change The Arrow on Shortcuts

This will allow you to change or remove the arrow in the bottom of the left hand corner. The arrow is just an icon placed over the existing icon.

Find the key below. Create an entry called “29” or modify the existing entry. If you want to leave it blank, delete the value in the entry. If you want to change the icon, point the entry to the icon you wish the arrow to be. Restart the computer to have the changes take effect.

Key: KHEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIcon

Entry: 29

Data: Directory of icon or blank for none

Data Type: REG_SZ

Completely Shutdown the Computer on NT/2000

When selecting shutdown on Windows NT/2000, the computer writes all unsaved data to disk, and then waits for the user to press the power button. This edit will immediately shut down the computer after writing the unsaved data to disk. The only problem is that this feature must be supported in your computers BIOS. The entry should already be there, but if it is not then you may add it.

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Currentversion\Winlogon

Entry: PowerdownAfterSutdown

Data: 0=Disable 1=Enable

Data Type: REG_SZ

Command Line Completion
This will allow you to use the tab key to complete a command in the Command Prompt. After typing the first part of a filename, you can use the tab key to complete the line. If there is more then one option, then pressing the tab button multiple times will scroll through all of them. The computer may need to be restarted for the changes to take effect. Sorry to Windows 9x users, this option is only available with NT/2000.

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command Processor
Entry: CompletionChar
Data: 09 = Enabled with use of Tab key
Data Type: REG_DWORD

No “Shortcut to” on Shortcuts

The “Shortcut to” just clutters the desktop. This tweak will allow you to have Windows stop adding it from all new shortcuts you create.

Find the Key below, and create a new entry called “link”, or modify the existing entry. The value “00 00 00 00” will remove “Shortcut to” on all new shortcuts.

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

Entry: link

Data Type: REG_BINARY

Data: 00 00 00 00 = Remove “Shortcut to”

Shut NUMLOCK Off as Default

Laptop users will love this tweak. When NT/2000 starts up, the NUMLOCK is on. Laptop users, who have no number pad, hate this. When they go to type their password, it will be typed incorrect, because when NUMLOCK their number pad is in the middle of the keyboard. They can lock themselves out, which would waste more time. This will allow users to choose to have the NUMLOCK off or on at startup.

Key: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard

Entry: IntialKeyboardIndicators

Data: 0=NUMLOCK off, 2=NUMLOCK on

Edit the Number of HTTP Sessions Allowed

HTTP specification requires that no one computer can have more than 2 simultaneous connections to any single HTTP server. This will affect all Windows application that uses the standard API, including Internet Explorer. People who keep multiple files on an online hard drive hate this restriction, because they can only download two or four files at a time.

Windows developers choose to limit the maximum connections to a HTTP 1.0 server to four. In the HTTP 1.1 specification the number of connections was mandated to 2.

To enable more than two connections, create two new entries in the key below, called “MaxConnectionsPerServer” and “MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server”. The “MaxConnectionsPerServe” entry resolves the number of connections to an HTTP 1.1 server, where “MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server” resolves the number of connections to an HTTP 1.0 server.

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\internet Explorer

Entry: MaxConnectionsPerServer and MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server

Data: Number of Simultaneous Connections You Need

Data Type: REG_DWORD

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