desktop tips and trick

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Restoring a Lost Desktop
If you ever lose the Desktop but Explorer is still running with the Start Button,
you can do this to bring back your Desktop in a Windows box.

1.Click Start
2.Click Run
3.Type a period " . "
4.Then press Enter

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Creating a New E-Mail Shortcut
To create a shortcut that will open your default e-mail program starting a new e-mail,

1.Right click on an open area of the desktop
2.Select New / Shortcut
3.For the Command Line, enter mailto:
4.For the title enter something like New E-Mail
5.When you click on this your default e-mail program should start with a new e-mail form.

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Creating 3D Window Effect
You can create a nice 3D effect for your windows

Start Regedit
1.Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Colors
2.Make sure the following setting are there:
3.ButtonHilight=128 128 128
4.ButtonShadow=255 255 255

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Creating Shutdown, Restart and Logoff Icons
To create the icons, create a shortcut on the desktop.

1.For Shutdown, the command is C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindows

2.For Restart, the command is C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindowsexec

3.For Logoff, the command is C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 0


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Having your Favorites and Start Menus Sort Alphabetically
If your Start Menu Program or Favorites are not sorting alphabetically, it is easy to fix this:

1.Start Regedit
2.Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/MenuOrder
3.Under here is are Favorites and Start Menu folders
In each there is a value called Order
4.Simply delete (or rename this) and restart Winodws
5.Your Favorites or Start Menus should now sort alphabetically

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Increasing the Icon Cache
1.Run Regedit
2.Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer
3.Create a new string called Max Cached Icons
4.Give it a value of 10000
5.This will increase response time in windows and give the Shellicon cache file more elbow room.

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Make Icons 256 Color 16-Bit
1.Open the Registry
2.Hit Ctrl+F
3.Type Shell Icon BPP
4.When found, right click the Shell Icon BPP icon
5.Click Modify
6.Change the value from 4 to 16
7.Click Ok
8.Close the registry
9.Restart your computer

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Removing Shortcut Arrows
An easy way to remove those irritating arrows from your desktop shortcut icons and not change their properties

1.Right click the Desktop / Properties / Appearance tab
2.Select Item
3.Scroll for Icon
4.The default size is 32
5.Change this to 30
6.Clicking Apply

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Adding the Control Panel to the Start Menu
1.Open up the Explorer
2.Go to \WINDOWS\Start Menu
3.Right click in the right-hand panel
4.Add a new folder
5.Name it Control Panel.{21ec2020-3aea-1069-a2dd-08002b30309d}
6.This makes getting to the Control Panel items a little easier

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Making Desktop Changes Permanent
To make changes to the Desktop like window size, positon after rebooting:

1.Start Regedit
2.Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
3.Create a New Binary Value
4.Name it NoSaveSettings
5.Give it a value of 01 00 00 00

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Easy Shortcuts on the Desktop
Here is an easy way to put shortcuts on the Desktop where they can easily be moved to other group icons.

Using the Explorer, create a SHORTCUT to the \Windows\Desktop directory in your \Windows\SEND TO directory.
Now whenever you want to make a shortcut and move it to the desktop:
Just make the shortcut you want using Explorer
Right click on that shortcut
In the pop up menu select the Send To and Desktop shortcut.

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