11.Full Window
Drag ( Without
Plus! )
Start Regedit
Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER
/ControlPanel
/Desktop /DragFullWindows
On "DragFullWindows"
properties change
0 to 1
12.Getting
Screen Shots
If you need to
get a screen shot,
and you do not
have a screen
capture program,
try this: Hit
the Print Screen
key. This copies
a bitmap of the
full screen into
the Windows clipboard.
Start up a graphics
editor and paste
it in.
Alt + Print Screen
will capture only
the active window.
13.Increasing
the Size of the
Scroll Bar
How to adjust
the width of the
scroll bar:
Select Properties
Select the Appearance
tab
Go to the item
list and find
scrollbar.
Increasing the
value in the Size
field will increase
the scrollbar
width.
14.Customizing
Individual Folder
Icons
To change a folder's
icon: Open Notepad
and enter two
lines,
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=file
name,number
(e.g. IconFile=C:\Icon\CustomFolder.ico,0)
Save the file
as DESKTOP.INI
in the folder
you wish to change.
Click Start ->
Run, type in the
command line,
ATTRIB +S "folder
name"
(e.g. ATTRIB +S
"C:\Custom
Folder")
Open Explorer
or My Computer
and refresh (press
F5 key).
This tip only
work Windows 95/NT
4.0 + IE 4.0 with
shell integration,
or Windows 98/NT
5.0.
15.Removing
the Recycle Bin
To remove Recycle
Bin from the desktop:
Run REGEDIT.
Find NAMESPACE
key in left pane
(HKEY_Local_Macine
\ Software \ Microsoft
\ Windows \ Current
Version \ Explorer
\ Desktop \ Namespace)
Expand NAMESPACE
(click '+' box)
Delete the value
RECYCLE BIN in
right pane
16.Adding
Send To the Recycle
Bin
Add a SHORTCUT
TO THE RECYCLE
BIN in your SEND
TO folder. That
way you can just
right click on
a file you want
to delete, and
send it to the
recycle bin without
having to confirm
each time.
17.Having
Icons with No
Name
Normally you
have to have a
name for an icon,
just spaces are
not allowed.
To create an icon
with no name attached:
Make sure NumLock
is on
Highlight the
Icon you want
to change
Right-Mouse click
and select Rename
While holding
down the Alt key,
type 0160
Now the icon will
have no name below
it.
To Create Multiple
Icons with No
Name - From John
R.
Follow directions
detailed above
With the second
icon simply add
one space-bar
character AFTER
the 0160 number.
Each successive
icon gets an additional
space-bar character
at the end (to
prevent a duplicate
naming error).
18.Moving
the Start Button
How to move or
close the start
button! Click
on the Start button
Press the Esc
key
Press the Alt
and the - keys
together
This will give
you a menu, you
can move or close
But if you move
it you need to
use the arrow
keys and not the
mouse.
19.Aligning
Drop-Down Menus
to the Right
All dropdown
menus can be aligned
to the right.
This features
becomes useful
when trying to
access
menus with submenus
that appear directly
to the right.
Open the Registory
editor (e.g. regedit.exe)
Goto \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
Panel\Desktop
Create a string
entry called "MenuDropAlignment"
Set its value
to 1
Reboot
Note: Will not
work under NT
4.0.
20.Changing
Drive Icons
To change a drive's
icon when you
open My Computer
Create a file
called AUTORUN.INF
on the root of
your hard drive
Enter the lines
[autorun]
ICON=Name of the
ICON file
For the name
of the icon file
you can either
specify the path
and name (e.g.
ICON=C:\WINDOWS\ICONS\MY_ICON.ICO)
or
a specific icon
in a library (e.g.
ICON=ICONFILE.DLL,2