Automatic Screen Refresh Tip

When you are working on your local computer and want to refresh any changes in your system automatically. For example some times you are watching sports results, online Stock Exchange rates and any changes to your hard drive but these changes are not usually refreshed until you press the F5 key on your keyboard.

To refresh your screen automatically you should edit your system Registry. But the best technique to edit the windows registry keys, always export or backup the whole windows registry keys on backup drive before editing. Because any mistake in Registry can cause serious problem in your computer to run properly.

Follow the given steps to change the updates automatically.

First click on Start button then type “Regedit” in Run option.
In Registry Editor panel go to the path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / System / CurrentControlSet /
Control / UpdateMode
Here in right hand side panel edit the DWORD value to be between 1 and 5.

Now restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

How To Rename Your Recycle Bin.

You can change your "Recycle Bin" name to another one as  you want. You will have to modify your Registry files to do this. 

First method

To rename Recycle Bin, follow these steps:

1* Click on "Start" => Run => type "Regedit" to open the Registry Editor

2* Press "Ctrl"+F" to search for the strings containing the word "Recycle bin".

3* Change the value data of "Recycle Bin" to another name you want like "Trash" or "Dust Bin"

4* Press F3 to continue searching for 'Recycle Bin' and change wherever you come across 'Recycle Bin' to its new name.

5* Repeat step 4 until you have finished with searching and changed all values to its new name.

6* Close "regedit" and hit F5 on desktop to see the new name on screen.

2nd method

1* Click Start then go to Run.

2* Type regedit and press enter.

3* Open the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT folder

4* Open the CLSID folder

5* Open the {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} folder

6* Open the ShellFolder folder

7* Change the "Attributes" data value from *40 01 00 20* to *50 01 00 20*. Once completed change the "CallForAttributes" dword value to "0x00000000" (double click and change value data to 0). You must change both of these values to get the rename to appear.

Now you will be able to rename the icon like any other icon.

Right-click the Recycle Bin icon on the desktop and click Rename and rename it to whatever you wish.

Take care when editing the Windows Registry! Do not absent-mindedly edit any other values, as you can render your PC completely unusable. Ensure that you create a backup of your registry.

How to Remove Shortcut Arrow on Icons in Windows (Include Desktop Items)

All shortcut icons in Windows operating system, including Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, has a small arrow overlay on the icons. The arrow is used to different between a shortcut from an actual physical file itself. The shortcut arrow is presented on all desktop icons, and icons in Windows Explorer, and it can be easily remove or hide from Desktop Icons and Other Icons

Run Registry Editor (RegEdit).
Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile

Delete the IsShortcut registry value in the right pane.
Tip: It’s also workable to just rename the IsShortcut registry entry to another name, such as IsNotShortcut.

Some other type of documents and files may be shortcut arrow on their icons too. To remove the shortcut arrow overlay image on these icons, navigate to each of the following registry keys, and then repeat step 2 and step 3 above to deactivate the shortcut arrow:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ConferenceLink
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DocShortCut
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetShortcut
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WSHFile

Exit from Registry Editor.
Logout and login again or restart Explorer for the change to take effect.
Note that removing the shortcut arrow with hack

Note : Please note that in some cases deactivating the arrow for *.LNK files might lead to duplicate items in the Explorer context menu, as in essence, removing the “IsShortcut” effectively forces Windows to treat the shortcut as real hard file. In Windows 7, it may also cause error such as unable to pin shortcut to Taskbar or Start Menu. To avoid these issue, use another workaround to remove shortcut arrow.

Show Your Banner at Startup.

Show Your Own Banner at Bootup.

You can show some banner or text message each time your windows boots up. Please follow the given below steps.

Go to “Start Menu” and click on “Run”
Type “regedit” and click enter.
You will see a “registry editor window.
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\windows\Current version\policies\system.)
Right click on the right penal – “New” – “String value”. You will see new string value.
Rename it by typing “LegalNoticeCaption”
Right click on “string value” and click on “Modify”. Type the text you want to use in the title bar of the banner on “value data” area.
Again create another new “string value” and rename it by typing “LegalNoticetext”.
Again modify on the “value data” part, typing the message, you want to show at startup windows.
Shut the registry editor and restart your  computer.
When you will start your computer, you will see a new banner before the welcome screen containing text message and a button of “OK”. Click on “ok” button to go ahead.

Seed Up Your Menus.

It is very best trick of windows. After apply you will feel excellent fast speed of your menus. This tricks does not effect on windows startup or browsing speed. It just effects on your menus e.g start program menu, right click menu etc. Follow these steps.

Go to Start menu and click on Run
Type “Regedit” and click “Ok”. You will find registry editor window.
Click on “HKEY CURRENT USER” then click on “Control Penal” and finally click on “DESKTOP”
You will see a list on right side & search for “Menushowdelay”
Double click or right click on “Menu Show Delay” to modify the value data.
Change the value data of value name to “0” and click ok.

It is done. Enjoy an excellent menu opening speed.

(Important Note. You can adjust value according to your requirements. Minimum value is “0” but normally you can use 50 to 150 )

How To Restrict User’s To Access Shutdown Button?

This tip is very interesting for home and some small office users, who wants to restrict user’s ability to shutdown their computer. You can hide the Shutdown button from the Start menu using registry editor and also restrict access to shutdown, if a user clicks on Ctrl+Alt+Del.

Follow the given steps to hide system shutdown button from start menu:

To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with

administrative rights.

Click Start button and type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.

Here locate the location to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer

Here in right side panel, right click to create a new DWORD value with name NoClose.

Now assign number 1 to its value data box.

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

But next time, if you want to unhide the shutdown button then simply change the value data box to 0 or delete this DWORD item.

Again close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.