Change the Registered Owner and Organization (All Windows)

If you entered the wrong registration information when you installed Windows you can change it and other miscellaneous settings such as ProductID and ProductName.

Open your registry and find the key below for your operating system.

Windows 95, 98 and Me:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion]

Windows NT, 2000 and XP:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]

Modify the strings values of 'RegisteredOwner' and 'RegisteredOrganization' to equal the required owner and company names.

Change the Location of System and Special Folders (All Windows)

Windows keeps a number of special folders such as "My Documents", "Desktop", "Favorites" and the "Start Menu". These folders can be moved anywhere on you system and the new location updated in this key.

Open your registry and find the key below, listed are all the Windows special folders.

Note the current location of the folder you want to move, and then using explorer move the folder to the new location.

Edit the value in the key below for the folder you moved to reflect the new directory location.

Log off or restart Windows for the changes to take effect.

Creating Program Aliases in Windows (All Windows)

A hidden feature in the Windows registry allows you to create program aliases. Allowing you to create, for example, an alias called JBLOGGS.EXE that when executed actually runs another program, e.g. NOTEPAD.EXE

Open your registry and find the key below, below it should be a number of sub-keys.

To create a new alias create a sub-key, and call it the name of the alias you wish to create (e.g. "JBLOGGS.EXE").

Modify the (default) value of the sub-key to equal the fully qualified path and filename of the application you want to be launched when you execute the alias (e.g. "c:\windows\notepad.exe").

Exit your registry and to test use the Start -> Run command type in the name of your alias (i.e. "JBLOGGS.EXE") and the aliased program should be launched, in this case Notepad.

Improve Core System Performance (Windows NT/2000/XP)

On systems with large amount of RAM this tweak can be enabled to force the core Windows system to be kept in memory and not paged to disk.

Change the value to '1' enable the tweak and stop the core process from being paged, or set it to '0' for the default.

Restart Windows for the change to take effect.

Note: This tweak may effect some software that relies directly on the Windows swap file such as Adobe Photoshop.

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