Your favorite Registry edits/tricks?

I know some people edit the registry on their Windows machines to do everything from improving performance and security to just personalizing and having fun.

What are some of your most useful and/or cool registry edits?

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binarysoul

Bringing back Solitaire game on my work PC! Opppsss!

Megadeth4168

Tough one... I guess I would have to say the ability to export Registry keys, edit that exported file and use it in a script.

This has been highly useful when changing a database to a different server. I have been able to change the ODBC connection settings in my edited registry export and write a simple batch file that executes the .reg file on the client computers via AD login script. Nice Time saver!

bwcarty

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser
New DWORD > ITBar7Position=1

Moves the file menu back to the top of the window in IE7/8.

Tyrant1919

Whatever the one was that decreased my ping by 100% when I played WoW back in the day. I forgot what the details were, but it disabled some algorithm that determined the best time to send packets instead of sending them asap.

Work related, probably the one that adds the computer name under the my computer icon.

tiersten

Tyrant1919 wrote: »

Whatever the one was that decreased my ping by 100% when I played WoW back in the day. I forgot what the details were, but it disabled some algorithm that determined the best time to send packets instead of sending them asap.

Setting TcpAckFrequency to 1 actually increases congestion on your upstream because you're now sending an ACK for every packet.

Globally turning off Nagel's algorithm does nothing for WoW since it does it by itself anyway.

jibbajabba

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ACPI]
"Start"=dword:00000004

Nice annoyance .. causes a BSOD .. "Last Known Configuration" is the "fix" obviously ...