Registry tricks

trick to disable drives in my computer
This trick helps to disable the local and network drives when u click on my computer icon.Registry is actually one of the things many people fear to change its settings .But if u master those settings then u can tame ur computer according to ur needs.



STEPS
1.Go to start--) run.Type regedit.Now go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Now in the right pane
create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives (it is case sensitive).
Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .
Now restart your computer.
So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown

To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item that you created.Again restart your computer.You can now see all the drives again.


create your own logon message


Go to start--) run.Type regedit.Now go to
hklm\software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current version\Winlogon.

 Right click LegalNoticeCaption, 
click modify, 
Type: ur name,and then click ok!

 Right click legalNoticeText, 
click modify, and then Close your message!

 Restart Your Computer.
  Its done


Add copy to and move to options in right click(windows xp)


though windows have builtin sendto  option in right click menu .It has limited functionalities ie we can send files only to compressed folder,desktop,my recipients,my documesnts.
By using this trick we can create copy to & move  in our right click menu so that we can move or copy documents anywhere.
 copy the folllowing text in notepad and save it with anyfilename.reg and then u can merge it into da registry by double clicking it



Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Copy To] 
@="{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Move To] 
@="{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"


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