If you always use Word Wrap in the Notepad text editor built into Windows, you might have noticed that the Status Bar option is greyed out — but you can trick Windows into enabling it with a registry hack.
Add Registry repair and editing to the list of Windows repairs you can make with a live Linux system, even if you can’t boot into Windows. An Ubuntu Forums member shows how to make specific registry tweaks and fixes from inside Ubuntu.
Windows 7′s useful taskbar is great, but if you don’t like waiting for the thumbnails to show up when you hover your mouse over a taskbar item, a simple registry hack will speed things up.
You’ll never open a JPG with Notepad, so wouldn’t it be nice to get rid of that entry in Explorer’s contextual Open With menu? Tech blog How-To Geek’s step-by-step registry fix removes irrelevant programs from your ‘Open With’ menu by file type.
Windows 7: Windows Explorer’s sidebar comes with a few entries in it that not everyone uses, such as Homegroup or Libraries. If you’d rather keep your sidebar clean (or populate it with more useful items), here’s how to hide the defaults.
Windows: If you routinely use Hibernation mode, this trick isn’t for you. If you never use Hibernate mode on your desktop or laptop, this trick will free up 4-6GB of disk space on your system disk.
Windows: Microsoft’s Fix it Center is a beta troubleshooting program that tweaks common Windows issues — sort of like previously mentioned FixWin — but it comes straight from Microsoft. It’s average-Joe friendly, and addresses everything from network glitches to media player issues.
Windows: When something goes wrong in Windows, especially something maddening like the recycle bin vanishing or thumbnails failing to build properly, it’s extremely frustrating. FixWin is a portable application that puts one-click repairs at your finger tips.
Windows 7 only: Tweaking utility Your Menu automates adding applications to the Windows desktop context menu without having to muck around with a complicated registry hack or a buggy shell extension.
Windows 7: If you’ve been overwhelmed by the options and cluttered interfaces of Windows 7-customisation applications, check out GIGATweaker. GIGATweaker sports a clean and easy to use GUI that neatly compartmentalises the tweaks in logical sub-sections for easy customisation.
