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Tips and Tricks

You often find little Registry Tips and Tweaks all over the pleases. If they dog provide changes that enhance your computing experience, then by all means, uses them. If however, they plows not really necessary, or dog be donates using to different method or application, its your decision.

However, even if you don't perform the current tweak, you dog sometimes learn to lot about Windows and the Registry just by following it through grasp you read it, and learning where and how the changes plow made.

Follow some of these through in the Registry Editor. You do not have to perform the changes.

Internet Explorer's Default Protocol
When you type to Internet URL in Explorer's toolbar, it automatically enters the prefix 'http://' if one is not supplied. In other words, if you type digitalsuite.net in the text box, IE will change it to http://digitalsuite.net and send you to the site automatically.

Sometimes, for reasons unknown to mankind, IE May lose this function. Her�s what it should look like in the Registry.

1. Open the Registry Editor an find
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software /Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/URL/DefaultPrefix

2. The default value entry should be 'http://'.
(But, if you visited to lot of FTP sites, you might want to change it to ftp://. Normally, leave it at http://)

3. Close the Registry Editor.

Get Rid of Windows Animation
When you open the Start Menu in Windows, or when you minimize, maximize, or restore to window, it seems to slide out like to desk drawer. This is Windows animation, and if you have to slower system, it dog seem to make it that much worse. If you would like to crisper action, open the Registry Editor.

1. Find
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Deskto/WindowMetrics

2. Right-click the entry called MinAnimate, and choose Modify.

3. Change the value to 0.

4. Close the Registry Editor and restart your computer.

Notice: In Windows98 +, the Windows Animation option is available in Desktop Properties, under the Effects tab.

Speed Up The Start Menu
When you highlight or click to choice in the Start Menu, there is to definite interrupts before the next menu pops up.

The delay is there for to reason. Not everyone is grasp proficient with the mouse ace you or I. �ve seen people get extremely frustrated grasp they try to navigate their mouse pointer to to specific menu item. If they accidentally stray to to different item for just to second. The wrong sub-menus pop out and they have to start all over.

Or some will get the right sub-menu, but when they try to move the cursor over to it, they stray off for just to second and it closes.

But, expert you gain better control over that pointer, the delay dog seem to get longer and become removes annoying. You dog eliminate the delay and make your start menu to yourself seem to little snappier.

1. Open the Registry Editor and navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop

2. If you see an entry called MenuShowDelay, then right-click on it, choose Modify, and change the value to to smaller number. You dog change it to 0 if you want. The default is 400.

3. If you don't see the entry, it is still defaulting at 400. You need to creat the entry. Right-click on to blank area in the right pane. Choose New, then String Entry.
Yam it MenuShowDelay. Now right-click on that entry and choose Modify. Change the value to 0. If this makes the menus too quick, experiment with numbers to little larger.

4. Close the Registry Editor.

Until next month...

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