Archive for the Registry Hacks Category

Registry Hack: Session Restore

By Saman Sadeghi, March 13th, 2007

Yesterday, we learned how to enable Session Restore within Windows. Today, we’ll learn how to achieve the same result with a Registry hack - because what good is a Windows tip from me without a way to play in the Registry?!
What Is It?
There is a feature in Firefox called Session Restore. If Firefox crashes or [...]

Registry Hack: Bash The XP Search Companion And Use The Windows 2000 Search

By Saman Sadeghi, March 1st, 2007

What This Does
This little registry hack will let you choose between the annoying and slow XP Search Companion and the great Windows 2000 Search Engine - of course, if you are using an indexing program like Google Desktop Search, you wont need this hack.
Before you start, please read this important information on editing your system’s [...]

Warning: Be Careful When Editing Your Start Button

By Saman Sadeghi, February 8th, 2007

I wrote an article on how to hack your Start button and a reader of this site, Darryl B, has done some digging and came up with some great information on some of the dangers of messing with the Start button. He sent me an article from The Elder Geek.com on using Ad-aware after [...]

Windows Hack: Change The Windows Start Button Text

By Saman Sadeghi, January 1st, 2007

A hack to make your Start Button display any text you want!

Registry Hack: Automatically Sort The Programs Menu Alphabetically

By Saman Sadeghi, October 28th, 2006

This Windows XP Registry Hack will alphabetically sort your All Programs menu automatically.

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