Professional Information Technology-Programming Book part 151 doc

Disable the Windows Key Windows NT/2000/XP Popular This tweak disables the Windows key that is found between the Ctrl and Alt keys on a Windows enhanced keyboard.. Change Wheel Mouse Det

Home : Hardware : Mice and Keyboards

Change Mouse Double-Click Sensitivity (All Windows)

This setting controls the amount of mouse movement allowed between clicks, for two consecutive clicks to be registered as a double-click

Change Mouse Wheel Scroll Settings (All Windows)

This tweak determines the number of lines scrolled for each rotation of the mouse wheel on a Microsoft IntelliMouse (or compatible) when no modifier keys (such as [Ctrl] or [Shift]) are pressed

Active Window Tracking (All Windows)

This tweak allows you to bring running programs to the foreground just by moving you mouse of the application window This is similar to the X-Mouse feature

found on UNIX operating systems

Change the Keyboard Preferences (All Windows)

These settings allow you to configure the repeat rate, blink rate and repeat delay of your keyboard

Increase Application Keyboard Response Time (Windows 95/98/Me)

When running more than one application at a time, you may find that your system's keyboard response is slower To alleviate this, you can adjust the amount of time allocated to processing keystrokes

Disable the Windows Key (Windows NT/2000/XP) Popular

This tweak disables the Windows key that is found between the Ctrl and Alt keys

on a Windows enhanced keyboard

Detect Accidental Double Clicks (All Windows)

This setting is used to control whether explorer should attempt to automatically detect accidental double mouse clicks

Change Wheel Mouse Detection (Windows NT/2000/XP)

This setting controls whether the driver should attempt to detect and enable the wheel on the mouse device The mouse wheel provides rapid scrolling and other control features

PS2 Mouse Port Rate Adjustment (Windows NT)

Ever noticed how your mouse cursor flickers sometimes or doesn't run as smoothly

as you would like? That's because the refresh rate is set too low, modify this key to speed things up and make your mouse cursor move smoothly

Change the Keyboard Buffer Size (Windows NT/2000/XP)

Occasionally Windows may report an error relating to an overflow in the keyboard buffer This tweak can be used to increase the size of the buffer, and avoid this problem

Change the Mouse Buffer Size (Windows NT/2000/XP)

Occasionally Windows may report an error relating to an overflow in the mouse buffer This tweak can be used to increase the size of the buffer, and avoid this problem

Display Mouse Pointer Trails (All Windows)

This setting allows you to control whether trails are shown behind the movement

of the mouse pointer to increase visibility

Reverse the Mouse Buttons (All Windows)

By default the left mouse button is the primary mouse button and the right is the secondary This tweak lets you swap those buttons around to make the right the primary, which may be useful for left handed users

Control the Mouse "Snap To" Feature (All Windows)

When enabled, this setting causes the mouse pointer to snap-to the default button

of the active application window

Home : Hardware : Network and Modems

Speed-up Modem and Serial Connections (Windows 95/98/Me)

Windows is normally limited to a default maximum speed of 115,200 bps for serial communications By using compression and high-speed UARTS modern modems may reach this limit and not be allowed to operate at full speed This tweak allows Windows to communicate with speeds of 230400, 460800 and 921600 bps

Load Balance Network Adapters (Windows NT/2000/XP)

If you have two or more network cards in your system this setting allows you to distribute the number of connections, or sessions among the adapters according to

a randomizing algorithm

Configuring Unimodem Support (Windows NT)

Windows NT 4.0 and greater support Unimodem modems, if your device is not supported though Windows can be configured to use the MODEM.INF file instead

PCMCIA Network Power Management (Windows 95/98/Me)

When using a PC Card network adapter you might not be able to connect the

computer to the network, and under Control Panel > System there is a yellow

exclamation mark "!" next to the card

Enable Random Adapter Responses (Windows 95/98/Me)

For a computer with multiple network adapters, this setting specifies whether to respond with an IP address selected randomly from the range of addresses on the computer or whether to return the IP address of the adapter that the request came in upon

Enable the Network Adapter Onboard Processor (Windows 2000/XP) Popular

If your network adapter has an onboard processor, designed to offload network processing from the system CPU, it is disabled by default This setting allows you

to enable it and increase the processing speed of your system

Disable Automatic Modem Connections at Startup (All Windows)

If remote connections are enabled in Windows, the system may try to initiate an Internet connection at Windows startup or at the start of many applications This setting disables that behaviour

Speed Up ISP Logon Time (Windows 95/98/Me) Popular

On some systems it can take a long time to connect to the Internet, you can

decrease the time required to connect to your ISP by trying these simple steps

Faster Modem Dialing (Windows 95/98/Me) Popular

Waiting to long for your modem to dial? This tip lets you reduce the time it takes your modem to dial, and increase your overall modem connection speed

Configure the TCP/IP Settings of a Network Adapter (Windows NT/2000/XP)

Popular

These values control the TCP/IP parameters of the network interface cards

Configurable parameters include IP Address, Subnet Mask and Default Gateway

Home : Hardware : Printers and Plotters

Change the Printer Spooler Priority (Windows NT/2000/XP)

Normally the printer spooler runs at the same priority as other services on a

system If your system is being mainly used for printing or handles a large number

of print jobs you can use this tweak to change the priority class the print spooler

Enable Wide Text Printing in Microsoft Word (All Windows)

When you print a document that contains extended characters, such as Greek symbols, to certain printers that do not support Unicode characters, the extended characters may be printed as square boxes This tweak should resolve the problem

on most printers

Disable Web Printing (Windows 2000/XP)

This restriction enables and disables server support for Internet printing Internet printing lets you display printers on Web pages so they can be viewed, managed, and used across the Internet or an intranet

Disable Print Job Notification in Event Viewer (Windows NT/2000/XP)

By default Windows NT server adds an entry in the event log for every print job occurring on the spooler This can quickly fill up the event log with redundant information

Define the Scheduler Priority (Windows NT/2000/XP)

This setting controls the overall priority of the printer scheduler

Disable the Printer Server Browse Thread (Windows NT/2000/XP)

When this option is enabled, the print spooler does not send shared printer

information to other print servers

Beep on Printer Errors (Windows NT/2000/XP)

When this setting is enabled the machine will beep every few seconds when a remote job error occurs on a print server

Changing the Default Printer Spool Directory (Windows NT/2000/XP)

Windows uses the hard drive to store information before sending it to a printer If the system is acting as a print server it is possible that the default location may cause insufficient disk space

Enable Print Job Notification Messages (Windows NT/2000/XP)

By default Windows notifies a user with a popup message that their print job has been completed on the printer This setting controls that behavior

Specify Where to Display Printer Notifications (Windows NT/2000/XP)

This setting controls whether print job notification should be sent to the local

computer or the computer that the user first logged on to

Specify the Printer Browser Timeout (Windows NT/2000/XP)

This setting is used to specify the time a network printer should remain in the

browse list before it is removed

Specify the Print Server Broadcast Timeout (Windows NT/2000/XP)

This setting is used to specify the timeout period between broadcasts of a print servers resources

Show Cascading Printers Folder (Windows 2000/Me/XP)

This tweak controls whether the 'Printers' sub-folder under 'Settings' on the Start Menu, is displayed as a cascading folder

Change a Users Default Printer (All Windows)

This setting will allow you the change the default printer of a user by modifying the registry

Home : Hardware : Processor and Motherboard

Increase the USB Polling Interval (Windows 98/Me/2000/XP)

By default the USB polling interval is once every millisecond (ms) Even if no USB devices are connected the polling operation is still performed and the

processor may not be able to enter power-saving state Use this tweak to increase the polling interval

Optimize Large Second Level Cache (Windows NT/2000/XP) Popular

Windows is optimized for a 256KB secondary cache by default With most

computers now having L2 caches larger than that it pays to take the time to change the setting to correspond to the size of the cache memory installed

Manage the CPU Task Priority (Windows 95/98/Me)

This setting allows you to manage how the system processor should prioritize foreground and background tasks

System Board and Memory Optimizations (Windows 95/98/Me)

These settings allow you to optimize the AGP and PCI buses along with the system memory by reducing the number of wait states (idle time)