SoFunction
Updated on 2025-04-14

Common Registration Changes Page 3/3


"Edit instead of executing when double-clicking the bat file"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell] 
[Operation] Modify the string in the "default" value to "edit".

"Thumbnail displays icon for bmp file"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.bmp] 
[Operation] Find the data of the "default" value (for example), then find [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\DefaultIcon], and modify the string in the "default" value to "%1".

"Removing the Small Arrow to Shortcuts"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile] 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile] 
[Operation] Delete "IsShortcut"
[Note] If you perform this operation, non-web-format documents, such as shortcuts or text documents, will not appear in the WIN98 favorites.

"Prohibit/Allow the addition of "shortcuts" text"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] 
"Link"=hex:00,00,00,00 (prohibited)/19,00,00,00 (permitted)


"Input Method Sort"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\keyboard layout\preload] 
[Operation] Win9X: Rename 1, 2, 3... subkeys; WIN2000/XP: Rename 1, 2, 3... key values.
[Note] The Chinese input method of some WIN2000/XP systems is in English punctuation by default. This may be a bug in Windows. As long as the full spelling input method is not ranked at the top.

"Locating Language and Input Method"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layouts] 
[Note] The keys starting with 0 are languages, and the keys starting with E are input methods.

"Add spaces after the entered Chinese characters"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Full Summarize]
"Insert space"=dword:00000001

"Show text in the position of time displaying the taskbar"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International] 
"sTimeFormat"="ab" (can be any character and time format)
[Example 1] H:mm:ss (Windows default, capital H means displaying time in 24-hour format)
[Example 2]tt h:mm:ss (tt means morning and afternoon, lowercase h means time is displayed in 12-hour format)
[Note] For WIN2000/XP, using any character other than the format has no effect, but it can still display text, that is, changing the "morning" and "afternoon" character defined by "tt" to other characters, such as: "s1159"="good morning", "s2359"="good afternoon", "sTimeFormat"="tt", or "sTimeFormat"="tt H:mm:ss".

"Allow/ban PCs to make sounds when errors occur"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound] 
"Beep"="yes" (allowed) /"no" (prohibited)

"Cleaning useless Windows color scheme"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Appearance\Schemes] 

"Releasing the Screen Saver Password" (WIN9X)
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] 
[Operation] Delete "ScreenSave_Data"

"Forbidden Cursor Flash"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] 
"CursorBlinkRate"="-1" 

"Change the speed of menu display"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] 
"MenuShowDelay"="400" (default value, means that the next level menu will pop up after staying on the menu for 400 milliseconds, the fastest is 0)

"Prohibit WINDOWS Smooth Scrolling"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] 
"SmoothScroll"=dword:00000000 

"Close window animation effect"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics] 
"MinAnimate"="0" 

"Change the display of Windows icons"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics] 
"Shell Icon Size"="32" (size: 32×32 pixels)
"Shell Icon BPP"="16" (Color: 16-bit enhanced color)
"IconSpacing"="-1155"/"-1125" (horizontal spacing)
"IconVerticalSpacing"="-1125" (vertical spacing)

"Change the maximum icon cache value"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] 
"Max Cached Icons"="2000" (value range: 100-4096)

"Change the Shell Icon for Windows"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Shell Icons] 
[Operation] Create a new string value, the name starts from 0, and the value is the icon file and path. The following are the items corresponding to each key value:
0: Unregistered file
2: Application without icons
3: Closed folder
4: Open folder
6: 3.5-inch floppy drive
7: Removable disk drive
8: Hard Drive
9: Network Drive
10: Offline network drive
11: Optical drive
13: The entire network
14: Internet
15: Computer icons in online neighbors
16: Local printer
18: Working Groups in the Network
19: Programs in the Start Menu (WIN9X)
20: Documents in the Start Menu (WIN9X)
21: Settings in the Start Menu (WIN9X)
22: Find in the Start Menu (WIN9X)
23: Help in the Start Menu (WIN9X)
24: Run in the Start Menu (WIN9X)
27: Turn off the system in the start menu (WIN9X)
28: Shared coverage map
29: Shortcut Overlay Map
31: Recycled folder (empty)
32: Recycled folder (full)
34: Desktop in Explorer
35: Start the Control Panel in the Settings menu
36: Start the program group in the program menu
37: Start Printer in the Settings menu
39: Taskbar and Start Menu in the Start Settings menu
40: CD disc
43: Favorites in the Start Menu (WIN9X)
44: Logout in the Start Menu (WIN9X)
46: Start Windows Update (WIN9X) in the Settings menu
48: Start looking for files or folders in the menu (WIN9X)
49: Start looking for computers in the menu (WIN9X)
53: Add printer (WIN9X)
54: Network Printer (WIN9X)
55: File Printer (WIN9X)
75: Online local printer (WIN9X)
76: Online network printer (WIN9X)
77: Online file printer (WIN9X)

"Let WIN98 use multiple columns of start menu"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Advanced] 
"StartMenuScrollPrograms"="False" 
[Note] The start menu of WIN98 uses a single column display mode. When a column cannot be fully displayed, a scroll point will be displayed up and down. Move the mouse there and the menu will scroll. Other Windows systems use multiple column display method, displaying the entire menu on the screen at once, and when it exceeds it, it is placed on the second column.

"Warning prohibiting insufficient hard disk space" (WIN9X)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem] 
"DisableLowDiskSpaceBroadcast"=04,00,00,00 (C drive)/08,00,00,00 (D drive)/10,00,00,00 (E drive)/20,00,00,00,00 (F drive)/hex:ff,ff,ff,ff (all)

"Let the planned tasks submit error report"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SchedulingAgent] 
"NotifyOnTaskMiss"=dword:00000001 
[Note] When using the scheduled task to automatically run some commands or programs, if an error occurs during runtime, the scheduled task will not submit an error report. This setting is to make the scheduled task pop up a prompt message when an error occurs.

"Increase the driver recognition level"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Driver Signing] 
"Policy"=hex:01,00,00,00 (prompt when there is no registration flag) or 02,00,00,00 (prohibited)

"Automatically clear unused DLL files in memory"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AlwaysUnloadDLL] 
[Operation] The default value is set to "1"

"Increase USB port detection interval"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Usb\0000](WIN98/ME) 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000}\0000](WIN2000/XP) 
"IdleEnable"=dword:00000001 (0 prohibits detection interval, 1 permits detection interval)
[Note] If so, do the same settings for "0001", "0002"....

"Change the default priority level of CPU processing tasks" (WIN9X)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\BIOS] 
"CPUPriority"=dword:0000000x (1: The foreground task has the maximum priority; 2: The priority of the foreground task is higher than that of the backend task; 3: By default, the priority of the foreground and backend tasks is the same; 0: Not recommended, the foreground task runs in real time)

"Bus and Memory Optimization (Reduce Wait Period)" (WIN9X)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\BIOS] 
"PCIConcur"=dword:00000001 
"AGPConcur"=dword:00000001 
"FastDRAM"=dword:00000001 

"Add File System Cache" (WIN9X)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\FS Templates\Desktop(/Mobile/Server)] 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem] 
"NameCache"=hex:a9,0a,00,00 (Server default)
"PathCache"=hex:40,00,00,00 (Server default)

"Add CD/DVD-ROM Cache" (WIN9X)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\CDFS] 
"CacheSize"=hex:6b,02,00,00 (default)
"Prefetch"=hex:e4,00,00,00 (default)

"Optimize File System" (WIN9X)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem] 
"ConfigFileAllocSize"=dword:000001f4 

"Improving the read and write speed of floppy disk drives (to make it have background storage management functions)" (WIN9X)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\fdc\0000] 
"ForeFifo"=dword:00000000 

"Delete the system's useless dynamic link library (DLL file)"
[HEKY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDLL] 
[Note] The key value of each DLL file indicates that this DLL is shared by several applications. If it is "01 00 00 00", this DLL file is shared by one application. If it is "00 00 00 00", the DLL file will not work for the system, which means it is a ^^ file. Delete the key value and delete the DLL file in the hard disk.

"View 16-bit and 32-bit DLL files in the system"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Known16DLLs] (16-bit) (WIN9X)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\KnownDLLs] (32-bit)

"Windows Automatic Refresh/Manual Refresh"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Update] 
"UpdateMode"=hex:00,00,00,00 (automatic refresh)/01,00,00,00 (manual refresh)
Previous page123Read the full text