How to Add Delete Folder Contents to Right Click Context Menu in Windows Vista / Windows 7

With the help of this tutorial you can add the option Delete Folder Contents to the right-click context menu which appears when you right-click a folder.This would come handy at times when you want to delete all the files inside a folder and all it’s sub-folders without deleting the folders themselves.

Here’s how you can do this:

• Click on Start button, type regedit in the search box and hit enter.
• In Regedit, go to: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell
• Right-click on shell, create a new Key and name it Delete Folder Contents

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• Again right-click on Delete Folder Contents, create a new Key and name it command

• In the right pane, double-click on (Default) string value and type

       cmd /c "cd /d %1 && del  /s /q *.* in the value data field  and hit OK

• Close Registry Editor and your done.

Access Windows Registry through Explorer Shell in Vista

Posted on Aug 30, 2008

 

We all know how important Windows Registry is when it comes to tweak settings in windows. We use it to customize the way windows works. To make any changes in registry we have to run Registry Editor which can be done in many ways. But there is an alternative of not going to Registry Editor and that is the Windows Vista Registry Shell Namespace Extension.This Shell Extension allows Windows Explorer to be able to view and interact with the Windows Registry. You can search, edit, create or delete registry information via windows explorer.It also demonstrates new concepts in Vista including the property system extensibility and content indexing.

See how it works:

 

  

Download : 

 

Windows Vista Registry Shell Namespace Extensions - Release: 1.0.0 Beta

Tweak the Recycle Bin Context Menu in Vista

Posted on Aug 29, 2008

With the help of this tutorial you will learn how to add a program of your choice to the Recycle Bin context menu for easy use in Windows Vista. As an example I will be using the program TuneUp Utilities.

Here's how you can do this>>>

• Click on the Start button.
• In the search box, type regedit and hit Enter.
• Click Continue to bypass button the UAC prompt.
• In regedit, navigate to
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F0B-00AA002F954E}\shell
• In the left pane, right click shell and click Key under the New menu.
• Type the name of the program TuneUp (you can type anything you wish, it just makes sense to give the name of the program) and press Enter.
• Again in the left pane, right click on the TuneUp key we created in the above step and click Key under the New menu.
• Type command and hit Enter.

• Moving into the right pane, double-click on (Default) and click Modify. 
• In the Value data field, type the full path of the program.exe file

• Click OK to apply
• Exit Registry Editor and you're done.
• You can add as many programs as you want. Just repeat the same steps for each program.
  

Customize Vista Logon screen with a Text Message

Posted on Aug 26, 2008

With the help of this tutorial you can display a Message Title and Text of your choice. This message will be displayed on a screen which will appear before the logon screen in Windows Vista.


Here's how you can do this>>>

• Click on the Start button, type regedit and hit Enter
• Click Continue to bypass the UAC
• In Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
  

• Move into the right pane, double click on legalnoticecaption and click Modify
• In the Value data field, type a Title of your choice say "Warning ! Danger Ahead" (without the quotes) and hit Enter.
• To give a text, double-click on legalnoticetext given right below and click Modify again.
• In the Value data field, type a text of your choice say "Tighten your seat belts and Get ready to explore the World of Windows Vista"(without the quotes) and press Enter.
• Exit Registry Editor and Log off to see the changes.
  

This is how the screen shud look:

Make your Vista Computer invisible in a network

Posted on Aug 21, 2008

This short tutorial will tell you how you can hide your Computer running Windows Vista from being shown in a network to other computers connected to the same network. Suppose you are connected to a network of many computers then this could be helpful in order to prevent others from being accidentally connecting to your computer as it happens sometimes while browsing the network.


Here's how you can do this>>>

• Click on Start button, type regedit in the search box and hit Enter
• Inside the Registry Editor navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
• Right-click on Parameters, click on New >>select DWORD (32-bit) value >>type hidden and hit Enter

• Now double-click on hidden and select Modify.
• Type 1 in the Value data field and hit Enter
  
• Close the Registry Editor and reboot your system for the changes to take effect.
• Now to check if the tweak worked or not click on Start button, type cmd and hit Enter.
• In the cmd prompt, type Net Config Server and hit Enter
• On moving down you will see "Server hidden" and it's status is set to "Yes" which means now your computer is hidden in the network.
  

tweak Domain Logon Cache Entries in Vista

Posted on Aug 11,2008

If you are using Windows Vista(except Home Editions), when you try to connect to a domain, it caches the domain credentials locally so that you can use them to login in case the domain might not be available.

This is done by a setting known as CachedLogonsCount in Registry Editor. It shows the number of domain logon entries vista is currently saving in the logon cache on the local machine.

Here' is how you can do this>>>

1. Click on Start button, type regedit in the search box and hit Enter.

2. Now navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\winlogon

3. In the right pane of the window, look for cachedlogonscount.

4. Right-click on it and select Modify.

5. In the Value data field you can choose a value between 0 to 50 coz 50 is the maximum.

6. Click OK and exit Regedit.

7. Now Reboot your computer.

Disable regedit under windows vista ultimate

Posted on Aug 09,2008

Users running MS Windows Vista Ultimate on their machines can prevent any kind of fiddling with the Registry Editor by disabling it and for that I’m going to tell you a simple tutorial.

Here’s how you can do this>>>>

1. Click on Start button, type gpedit.msc in the search box and hit Enter.

2. Click Continue to elevate the UAC prompt. This will allow you to open Group Policy Object Editor.

3.In the left pane of the window navigate to User Configuration>> Administrative Templates>>System.

4.Now in the right pane, double click on Prevent access to registry editing tools and you’ll get the following window.

5.Here click on Enabled and select Yes in the drop down menu given below.

6.Click on Apply ,then OK and close the Group Policy Object Editor.

7.That’s it you are Done.

Now you can not access Regedit by any means. But if you do wanna fiddle with it you can select Not Configured option in step 5.