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This restriction is used to remove the “All Programs” button which displays a list of all the installed applications.(ONLY FOR  WINDOWS XP)
Open your registry and find or create the key below.
Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called “NoStartMenuMorePrograms” and set it according to the value data below.
Exit your registry; you may need [...]

When you install a new Windows program the icon will be highlighted on the Start Menu in Windows XP to allow you to quickly locate it. This tweak controls whether new programs should be highlighted.
Open your registry and find or create the key below.
Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called “Start_NotifyNewApps” and [...]

Are you sick of seeing the same tips again and again when you first logon to Windows? Now you can change them to whatever you want, whether it’s quotes, jokes or a to-do list, anything is possible.
Open your registry and find the key below.
Create a new string valued named by incrementing the existing value names [...]

This tweak removes the context menu that would normally appear when the user right clicks on the desktop or in the Explorer right results pane.
Open your registry and find or create the key below.
Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called “NoViewContextMenu” and set it according to the value data below.
Exit your registry; [...]

A hidden feature in the Windows registry allows you to create program aliases. Allowing you to create, for example, an alias called JBLOGGS.EXE that when executed actually runs another program, e.g. NOTEPAD.EXE
Open your registry and find the key below, below it should be a number of sub-keys.
To create a new alias create a sub-key, and [...]

Normally Windows Update will automatically reboot the system when you have your system configured to “Automatically download recommended updates for my computer and install them” and one or more of those updates requires a reboot. This settings changes the behavior so when users are logged in the system will not automatically reboot.
Open your registry and find [...]

Unfortunately Windows only gives you the limited options of center or tile for the placement of the desktop wallpaper. With this setting you can move the image anyway on your desktop.
Open your registry and find the key below.
Create two new string values of ‘Wallpaperoriginx‘ and ‘Wallpaperoriginy‘. If the values already exist then you simply modify [...]

Normally when you attempt to open an unknown file type a popup message is shown asking whether you would like to use the online web service to find the appropriate program to open the file. This setting allows you to disable this prompt, causing the Open With dialog to display immediately.This is for WINDOWS XP [...]

If you entered the wrong registration information when you installed Windows you can change it and other miscellaneous settings such as ProductID and ProductName.
Open your registry and find the key below for your operating system.
Windows 95, 98 and Me:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion]
Windows NT, 2000 and XP:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]
Modify the strings values of ‘RegisteredOwner‘ and ‘RegisteredOrganization‘ to equal [...]