Devilslab » registry tricks http://www.devilslab.com Your Guide to stay Updated Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:40:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Registry Tricks and Tips http://www.devilslab.com/2009/06/registry-tricks-and-tips.html http://www.devilslab.com/2009/06/registry-tricks-and-tips.html#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:30:47 +0000 Shekhar Saxena http://www.techarea.co.cc/?p=34


Here is the trick that can help you in registry editing. Here are various tricks and tips through which you can edit your configurations.

  • Backup / Restore the Registry

To Backup/Restore the Windows Registry: Windows 9x For XP 2000 click here

If you are in MSDOS, at the C:Windows prompt type
Attrib -s -r -h C:WindowsSystem.dat (press Enter)
Attrib -s -r -h C:WindowsUser.dat (press Enter)
To make the backup copies type:

copy C:WindowsSystem.dat C:WindowsSystem.000 (press Enter)
copy C:WindowsUser.dat C:Windowsuser.000 (press Enter)
To Restore the Registry

copy C:WindowsSystem.000 C:WindowsSystem.dat (press Enter)
copy C:WindowsUser.000 C:Windowsuser.dat (press Enter)

  • Add Open With to all files

You can add “Open With…” to the Right click context menu of all files.This is great for when you have several programs you want to open the same file types with. I use three different text editors so I added it to the “.txt” key.

1. Open RegEdit
2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*Shell
3. Add a new Key named “OpenWith” by right clicking the “Shell” Key and selecting new
4. Set the (Default) to “Op&en With…”
5. Add a new Key named “Command” by right clicking the “OpenWith” Key and selecting new
6. Set the (Default) to “C:Windowsrundll32.exe shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL %1″, C: being your Windows drive. You must enter the “OpenAs_RunDLL %1″ exactly this way.

  • Customize the System Tray

Customize the System Tray

You can add your name or anything you like that consists of 8 characters or less. This will replace the AM or PM next to the system time. But you can corrupt some trial licenses of software that you may have downloaded.

1. Open RegEdit
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelInternational
3. Add two new String values, “s1159″ and “s2359″
4. Right click the new value name and modify. Enter anything you like up to 8 characters.

If you enter two different values when modifying, you can have the system tray display the two different values in the AM and PM.

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