problem with desktop icons

If you notice difficulties when refreshing the desktop maybe your icon cache size is to small. Set You can set this registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Max Cached Icons as REG_SZ to 8000. It’s setting the icon cache in RAM.

howto enable or disable wsh

One can enable or disable the windows scripting host with the two entries in the registry under:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows Script Host\Settings\

and

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows Script Host\Settings\

where one has to change the DWORD value of enable to 0 or 1.

.reg registry tweaks

Some registry tweaks for m$ windows:

They say: It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!

Searchfix

Windows XP does not find the text you are searching for in some text files although you definitely know it’s there ? Try this:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00    

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\.php\\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\.shtml\\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\.css\\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\.inc\\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"

Thumbnail size and quality

Windows automatically creates thumbnails of image files in all folders you open inside Explorer – for a size of 156 pixel and a quality of 85% enter:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00  

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer]
"ThumbnailSize"=dword:0000009c
"ThumbnailQuality"=dword:00000055