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Registry Hacks for XP
Along with the standard utilities I install, there’s also a selection of little registry hacks that I’ve chosen to standardise on. I should note that this is by no means an exhaustive list of possibilities. I’d also note that my agenda here is to keep things relatively “normal looking” for the customer. As a result, I only really do a few small things that, in my opinion, enhance XP rather than substantially alter how it operates.
Integrating registry changes is fairly simple in XP. First up, you need the changes saved out to a file (e.g. reghacks.reg). Here is the one I use.
This file has to have a certain format in order for this to work. This MS knowledge base article provides details about the syntax of a .reg file and also includes details about how to add, modify and delete registry keys. This KB article was the basis of my implementation:
regedit /s .InstallersXP_Reg_Hacks.reg
There are heaps of sites that offer registry hacks to achieve different results. As with many things, Google can be your friend in finding the ones you want.
(This article is part of a series about the build disc I use to standardise system builds. The series starts here and this particular article follows on from this one.)
