GeekLimit

An interesting concept from Scoble.

Looking at the results, I find it interesting that the search engines and blog tracking sites aren’t nearly as quick on the uptake as we previously thought. This puts serious doubt on how a person is supposed to use a blog for ‘breaking news’. It seems like is anyone were to blog on a breaking news story, the story would be on the news sites, and possibly in the paper, by the time a search engine of blog index picked it up.

Interesting. This puts a new perspective on the professional-blogger world. To stay relevant, you need high traffic, RSS subscription rates, or exceptional content. It doesn’t seem like you’ll make it happen just because you’re the first to know…

It looks like Google is taking one step closer to killing off the locally-installed program. In this case, it looks like they’re looking for an online Word Processor. They’ve already implemented IM collaboration in their mail product, Gmail.

This brings up a new point. Microsoft is quickly falling behind Google. Google appears to be following IBM’s lead and working to bring all its tools together to give multi-channel collaboration. IBM has known this for years with its Lotus lineup.

With this move, Google may be cutting off Microsoft’s ability to generate revenue by making its users purchase multiple products to do their work, then purchasing multiple servers to make them all work nicely together. Google’s move also is highlighted by it’s offerings to host domain-based gmail accounts.

Could Google be positioning itself to have a web-based collaborative tool encompassing the features of Microsoft’s Office and Lotus’ Email/IM/team collaboration products? I’m not as worried about IBM, since the Lotus platform offer much, much more than just email. A product like Exchange/MSN Messenger/Office, however… It seems as if people grew tired of paying for those standalone products a long time ago…

So I got an email today from “JPMorgan Chase”. Thunderbird marked it as a possible scam. Let’s check it out:

Dear JPMorganChase Customer,

Due to recent fraudulent activities on some of our online accounts we are launching a new security system to make Chase online accounts more safe and secure. In order to protect your information against unauthorized access, identity theft and account fraud we earnestly ask you to renew your account.

To renew your account go to Customer Center.

Please note that you will not be asked for sensitive information like routing numbers and/or PIN numbers. Beware those sites that ask you for this particullary informations.

Also note that your account was suspended for security reasons until you renew it by proving that you are the rightful owner.

Regards,
Account Renewal Team.

ABOUT THIS MESSAGE
This message was delivered to you as a Chase credit card customer to provide you account updates and information about your card benefits. Chase values your privacy and your preferences.

Your personal information is protected by state-of-the-art technology. For more detailed security information, view our Online Privacy Policy. To request in writing: Chase Privacy Operations, 451 Florida Street, Fourth Floor, LA2-9376 Baton Rouge, LA 70801.

If you wish to unsubscribe from e-mail promotional messages from Chase, click here.

Please note that you will continue to receive service related e-mail messages that directly concern your existing Chase products and services. Please allow up to ten business days for us to process your request.

Please do not reply to this message as the “reply” function is not equipped to handle customer service inquiries.

This email was sent to: @gmail.com

© 2006 JPMorgan Chase & Co.First of all, the first thing I’m going to look at is the links:

‘Customer Center’ is linking to:

http://38.113.128.24/0/JPMorganChase/sso_form.php?cmd=login&fromLoc=ALL&LOB=COLLogon

‘click here’ (unsubscribe) is linking to:

http://email.chase.com/W1GH054F863E5C29D5C3632ED04110

The email link is pointing to my own email address, apparently so I can email myself if I wish.

So let’s take a look at the first link. I’ll try to surf to 38.113.128.24. No go, that’s not a good sign. So we’ll look up who owns that IP address with ARIN. They come back with a ‘Performance Systems International, Inc.’ :

OrgName: Performance Systems International Inc.
OrgID: PSI
Address: 1015 31st St NW
City: Washington
StateProv: DC
PostalCode: 20007
Country: US

I can also see that they control the IP address range from 38.112.0.0 to 38.119.255.255. That’s over 500,000 public IP addresses, which makes it seem like they’re an ISP, since no normal business would have that many addresses, save for someone like Google.

Alright, so it’s looking like this email came from someone’s machine on an ISP’s network. It’s possible that Chase is using this ISP, although unlikely. Let’s look up Chases’ info:

NetRange: 159.53.0.0 – 159.53.255.255
CIDR: 159.53.0.0/16
NetName: BANKONE-159-53
NetHandle: NET-159-53-0-0-1
Parent: NET-159-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: NS1.JPMORGANCHASE.COM
NameServer: NS2.JPMORGANCHASE.COM
NameServer: NS05.JPMORGANCHASE.COM
NameServer: NS06.JPMORGANCHASE.COM

Alright, so now I know something is up. If the email had come from Chase, it would have links in the body to jpmorganchase.com, chase.com, or an IP address in their own range which is in Columbus, Ohio, not the IP that was listed, which are assigned to an ISP Washington, DC.

So where did the email come from? In Thunderbird, I open up the email and select view > headers > all. Then I get all of the information on how this email got to me. Here are a few interesting lines:

Return Path: bill@kahless-ro.org
Received: from kahless-ro.org (wsip-24-234-125-84.lv.lv.cox.net [24.234.125.84])
X-Mailer: PHP v4.4.6

Mmkay. That’s not Chase. kahless-ro.org is a web site about some Star Trek Klingon fan club in Las Vegas. The maintainer of the site is seq’dogh, er, I mean Daniel Davidson, but that’s not really important. Cox.net is an ISP, so this guy probably just has a machine in his house an is using it as a web server for his club. Opening up a command prompt and giving it a tracert 24.234.125.84 Shows that the route between me and the, er, Klingons go from my local router, to my ISP’s router, to a connection in downtown Chicago, to Los Angeles, to Las Vegas, then back down through local routers to the web server. I can even scan the web server to get an idea of what it’s set up to do with a port scanner. I get the following ports that the server is actively listening on:

TCP: 24.234.125.84 [21-ftp]
TCP: 24.234.125.84 [25-smtp]
TCP: 24.234.125.84 [22-ssh]
TCP: 24.234.125.84 [23-telnet]
TCP: 24.234.125.84 [53-domain]
TCP: 24.234.125.84 [110-pop3]
TCP: 24.234.125.84 [80-www-http]
TCP: 24.234.125.84 [111-sunrpc]
TCP: 24.234.125.84 [143-imap]
TCP: 24.234.125.84 [587-submission]

Port 25 tells me this machine can send email. Port 111 tells me this is a Sun-based Linux or UNIX system that is advertising its ports and services (security problem!) Port 587 is open to accept email submission.

Basically, what this seems to be is what’s called a ‘mail relay’. The Klingons probably don’t know it, but someone most likely has access to their web server (Port 111), and the server is set up to accept scam emails on port 587, and send them out through the normal SMTP port.

Taking a wild guess here, but the website is in HTML, and the email was sent via PHP. If the web server owner doesn’t have PHP installed, they might want to check again… It’s porssible that someone broke into this older UNIX-based machine and installed PHP. If I were a scam-email-sender, I would have the server set up to receive a list of email addresses and bogus email content, then have the server send out the emails for me. This would require some scripting, hence the PHP.

In any case, I think we’ve found the problem. This machine (or mor likely, the machine’s router/firewall) is not locked down properly, and someone is using that vulnerability to send scam emails. The idea would be that I would go to the fake web page listed in the email, it would look just like a normal Chase web site, I would enter in my Chase username and password, and they would then have it to do with as they wished…

On the other hand, there might be someone with the address bill@kahless-ro.org with some malware on his machine. In this case, it’s a legitimate user that’s “sending” these emails. Definitely a possibility these days, as spyware is on pretty much every machine… Only way to fix this is to make sure the machine is clean. Have you scanned yours lately?

So let’s let our Klingon friends know that they are an open relay, since there’s not much we can do about someone’s machine being infected, they just need to clean it:

To: seqdogh@kahless-ro.org
Subject: Hello!
Body: I wanted to let you know that I received a JPMorgan Chase scam email from your web server. You might want to look into it. Maybe we can get it fixed? I’ve posted my findings in a tutorial here. Thanks, Dan

Well, that’s boring. I’ll send this instead:

To: seqdogh@kahless-ro.org
Subject: Transmission error
Body: Attention Klingon of sector ‘Las Vegas’. This is Captian Dan of the Federation Starship Technocrat. We have received a transmission from your coordinates which we believe to have originated from the Borg alliance. We are sending a report from Engineering as to this infestation. We request your assistance in dealing with this matter by stardate -317215.75. Captain Dan out.

I hope they don’t think I’m a nerd…

Hey all, I’ve got a new project. Here’s the idea:

There is a wealth of life experience out there. Many of us had to interview grandparents or other relatives in school on life as it was during past events. There must be millions of recordings and other accounts out there detailing firsthand accounts of history. Enter ‘Firsthand History’!

OK, so here’s the plan. I’m going to build a site that is basically like Flickr (Zooomr), but you will be able to choose from the following:
- browse by time (1944, 1960) and get firsthand accounts of life at that time
- browse by location (Honolulu, Hawaii; Groom Lake, Nevada) and get firsthand accounts from that locale
- browse by affiliation (NASA, First Infantry Division) and get a list of firsthand accounts for those organizations

I’m thinking of having the people supply the following information:
- audio upload (.mp3 only?) and/or full text transcriptyear being discussed
- location where this happenedtheir role during this storytheir name
- language of the story
- summary of story (limited to a certain amount – like 30 char)
- tag the entry (WWII, tank, Iwo+Jima, airfield, minefield) need to avoid dupes! no WW2, WWII, etc.!!

people would be able to search the database and do the following:
- see their results on a google map
- stream the audio to their desktops
- download the audio, and have the proper ID info embedded as to speaker, event, etc.
- be able to search by tag. So if you wanted to find a story about what it has historically been like for tank drivers, you could do so.

In fact, maybe I should base the entire searching system off of a tagging system? They would enter all of the above info in, but I would just keep record of everything in tags for search flexibility…?

examples of possible tag searches, which would result in a list of firsthand accounts of people who experienced the following:
- 1960, racism, united+states
- USS+Arizona, WWII
- NASA, Gemini
- Moscow, Stalin
- Titanic
- New+Orleans, flood, 2005

What do all of you think? Any other ideas? I’m going to do this, there is so much information that is a shame to lose from generation to generation!

I think it will be important to specify that I want people who were directly involved in the event…although I’m sure millions of people could give their accounts of the JFK assassination, the site would have to specify explicitly that I’m only looking for people who experienced it firsthand, i.e. ‘they were there’.

I think I might need some online tools as well, like for converting .wav to .mp3, splitting .mp3 into different files, etc. Anyone know how to do this? I’ll be on a server with PHP and MySQL, but I’m thinking JavaScript or something…

We’ve all got great ideas for the next big thing. Before you invest in a personalized license plate that says ‘Web20′ or ‘AJAX 7334′, you’ll need to develop a simple way of getting information in and out of a web server.

There are many ways to do this, but I like PHP and MySQL, because they are easy and cheap. (PHP and MySQL are free, but you can find hosting on a PHP-MySQL server for as low as $8/month.)

So let’s say we want to build a web app…

Step 1: lay out what info you’re going to need

I think of it like this: if you were to do this process on paper, what would you need? First of all, you’ll need User information. On a ‘User Information’ sheet, I might have the following info:

User Info

• First Name
• Last name
• Employee ID number
• Email Address

OK, so that’s pretty easy to figure out. It’s also easy to take this info and plan out how you’re going to store the info in a MySQL table. (a MySQL table is like a spreadsheet in Excel (OpenOffice Calc!)) So I will take my data requirements and make a table called user_info, as follows. I will also define what will be in each data type. I also need to add some more fields…

user_info

• *user_id
• passwd
• fname
• lname
• email

(* this data will be required to be unique – I can’t have 2 users with the same name!)

This is going to lay out a table in MySQL that looks like this when it is full:

user_id	passwd	fname	lname	email
php_ddy	phpisneat	John	Doe	jdoe@isp.com
supr_lady	mysqlissweet	Jane	Doe	janed@isp.com

each row is called a record, and contains all of that person’s info. The user info table is pretty standard, but what other tables you will need depend on your application. Let’s say we’re making a simple chat room web page. Another table we will need will be for people’s comments, like this:

user_id	time_posted	date_posted	text
php_ddy	13:10:09	03-15-2006	hi jane!
supr_lady	13:10:13	03-15-2006	hi john, what’s up?
php_ddy	13:10:17	03-15-2006	nothing much, just saying hi.

Now the important thing to notice here is my re-use of user_id. By re-using this data, I can now link the two tables together.

Step2: Planning how to use the information

This is where things get interesting. By re-using the user_id values, I can link the two tables. If I didn’t use user_id in the second table, I would have only been able to display the following from the second table, using PHP:

hi jane!
posted by php_ddy 1:10:09 PM

hi john, what’s up?
posted by supr_lady 1:10:13 PM

nothing much, just saying hi.
posted by php_ddy 1:10:17 PM

This is okay, but since I can link the tables together, I can have PHP temporarily combine them, display the info, and then let them go back to normal. I get something like this:

hi jane!
posted by John Doe 1:10:09 PM

hi john, what’s up?
posted by Jane Doe 1:10:13 PM

nothing much, just saying hi.
posted by John Doe 1:10:17 PM

Now this is what web apps are all about. I’ve only defined two very, very basic tables of data for MySQL, and by using PHP to access the data and work with it, I can make a word of difference!

So far, I’ve explained everything you need to know about making a web application. You see, web applications aren’t about the code you know, etc. You can work on that. Web applications are made great by what you do with the data.

Some of the best applications on the web are so simple, but extremely powerful because of how they cross-index information like this:

• Combine historical traffic records with a list of streets from some driving directions. You now can semi-accurately predict traffic for your route.

• Combine a history of who has bought what at a grocery store with current specials. You can now give a sheet full of coupons that are relevant to a user’s particular tastes.

You can see how useful these are, but are so simple to create. The hardest part is thinking this stuff up, and planning how you will store and cross-reference the data. If you learn anything from this posting, it is that a successful web app has nearly nothing to do with how many years you’ve been programming, its success depends 99.9% on your own imagination. Check out Zoomr, for example. It’s a photo sharing site that was built by a 17-year-old. Since he re-thought what it means to have a photo sharing site online, he’s now threatening Yahoo’s Flickr.

Step 3: the minor details

Until now, I’ve been concentrating on the most important part of a web application. This part should go back and forth in your head, about what data you will store, what info you will be able to display by linking tables of information together, etc. Do all of this planning several times over until you are sure it is the way you want. Once you start programming PHP that is dependent on tables being named a certain way, etc., you’re pretty much stuck with it, or will be forced to do a lot of re-do work.

This isn’t a PHP tutorial, but I chose PHP because it is the easiest data-retrieval language to learn. In fact, if you know HTML, you can easily learn PHP n a few hours. The same goes for MySQL, although it may take you a try or two to learn how to pull the data you want out of the tables in a format you can use (arrays, etc).

I learned PHP and MySQL in these tutorials, and am able to make just about any web app I please, after proper forethought into what I want to do.

I wouldn’t recommend making your own php/MySQL server starting out, but by all means, have a go if you want. My advice would be to check if your hosting provider (if you have a web site) supports PHP and MySQL. They probably do, since php and MySQL are immensely popular, and aren’t going anywhere.

Well, hopefully you aren’t disappointed that this isn’t a PHP or MySQL tutorial, but as I mentioned above, immediately jumping onto PHP and MySQL is a terrible way to design a web application.

To recap, design the app on paper, in a spreadsheet, or whatever. Plan out what info you will be storing, and how you are going to mix your data tables to provide a service. Plan everything out ahead of time, and you won’t have to go back and re-do anything later (like when you forgot to gather your 10,000 user’s zip codes or something)

Hey Girl (Live) O.A.R. Album: Any Time Now (Live) Station: Alternative Rock Favorite Created on: March 15, 2006

I wrote this monster comment over at Atariboy, and thought I’d mirror it here. After all, fellow Technocrats, if you’re going to change the world, you’re going to need to get in the door first. Consider the business card your “bait”. Here are some ideas:

For a business card, if someone is going to promote yourself as (any kind of) unique-thinker, consider using a non-standard layout. Anyone who will want your card is interested in you making them stand out with your unique designs.

You don’t have to get crazy here, then it’s over-developed. Keep it simple. In the past, I have had great success with having a vertically-laid-out card, as opposed to a traditional horizontal one. Also consider inverting the colors (sorry – ‘colours’) on your card. Make the background blue, the logo black, and the text white.

Another trick I’ve done is make the background of the card a different color than the front. More expensive to print, but it looks pretty unique when you have a purple-background card with yellow text, and the back of the card is yellow.

When you want to get really crazy, you can order cards with transparency and all that. Consider your card with a transparent logo… expensive, but the idea is that you would do a short run of those to attach to your resume. They’ll remember you, and if the stupid card gets you the thinking-out-of-the-box-designing-robots-of-the-future job, then the thinking-out-of-the-box card was worth it…

The only key here is that you (or anyone) need to choose a card design that matches what you have to offer. If I saw a card with all sorts of crap on it, it’ll make me think that person is all about over-designing things. If they just have a tweak or two, definitely cool, but the person had better have an idea or two to back it up!

Hello everyone! Check out this super-tweaked template! Took me most of the weekend to get all of it working right, and I still have some stuff I want to tweak more, but I’m pretty proud of it.

You may have previously seen this blog at:
Technology and Otherwise on Blogger, then
Technology and Otherwise on WordPress (Later named ‘The Daily Technocrat’ after a few suggestions to me from Scoble)

Well, I’m back home at Blogger, due to several reasons. I’ll get into it once I’m done moving all my posts in, hopefully by March 13. Why is it taking so long?
I’m tagging all of my posts at del.icio.us (and therefore technorati) now!

In the meantime, check out my new blog project: HelpDesk KnowledgeBase.

HelpdeskKB is a play-by-play of the issues and solutions I come across
while administrating 400+ machines and 1200+ users. I’ll be tracking my
past issues, and share my solutions with other IT pros, people interested in the
IT life, and you!

OK, so far we’ve done a lot of work that the average person should be able to handle without breaking a sweat.

Atariboy says he’s bored. So am I.

Now we leave our garden path and enter the sawmill. This is not for beginners. If you don’t know what ‘regedit’ is already, stand up from the keyboard and run. The settings explained here can render your Operating System completely useless if you are careless.

That said, welcome to the registry! If Windows XP were a person, the registry would be its DNA. Every single setting for windows and most settings for programs are logged in the registry. Sure, they might be presented to you in pretty little drop-down menus and checkboxes, but in the cold underworld of the registry, settings are signified by ones, zeroes, and strange codes.

Here’s the deal. Where normally you could right-click the desktop, hit properties, blah blah change the wallpaper, in the registry, you find the appropriate keys and set the following:

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
“WallpaperStyle”=”2″
“Wallpaper”=”C:\background.JPG”

“2″ means ‘stretched’… Kind of a hassle, though. I mean it’s easy to change the wallpaper, so why bother with the registry?

Well, than take this example. rumor has it that Windows XP sometimes can’t tell how much L2 Cache it has at its disposal with some processors. So maybe you have 1MB…Windows will just use 256KB by default. You’ll never see a menu for that…

But in the registry…

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
“SecondLevelDataCache”=”1024″

Windows will try to use 1MB of L2 cache now, whether it’s there or not. If your processor has 512KB, windows may die. That’s the risk you take.

You should be familiar with the HKEY entries and the different ways to list the values underneath the HKEY entry, such as DWORD and the like. If not, don’t mess with the registry. It will bite you.

If you’re not scared yet, then let me scare you. Changing these settings by hand is OK, but if you really want to push your luck, you can make all of these changes via a registry script. With the examples I have so far, the file would be called *.reg (let’s say ‘cross-fingers.reg’). Inside would be the folloing text:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;Specify the background image
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
“WallpaperStyle”=”2″
“Wallpaper”=”C:\background.JPG”

;Tell Windows XP how much L2 on-die cache memory there is (in KB)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
“SecondLevelDataCache”=”1024″

(note the semi-colon lines are comments…use them so you rememebr why you’re doing something. also, put ‘Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00′ on the first line)

If I were to save the file, and double-click it, Windows will ask me if I want to make all of the registry settings, then will execute all of them, with very minimal error checking.

What this means is that you can start crawling the web for performance-enhancing registry settings, carefully making sure to modify them to fit your particular hardware.

I’ve managed to grow quite the registry file myself. This particular one is for older machines at the school district I work for. the idea is to boost the performance to get another year or two out of low-powered machines. I found these settings from all over the place, and they do everything from turn off normally-uneccessary services to removing the arrows from shortcut icons.

I haven’t worked on this file for a few months. Let’s do this: check out my file. There’s probably a hundred more preformance settings out there. If you find any, come back here and leave them in a comment. I’ll add your tweak to the file, along with your name (or screen name) and one URL or email.

You MUST include a semi-colon line in front of every registry setting explaining what it does. We need proper documentation. And yes, I will be checking to make sure it does what you say it does.

Here is the contents of the .reg file as of right now

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;************************************************
;* NOTE: THERE ARE A FEW MACHINE-SPECIFIC *
;* ENTRIES LISTED HERE THAT NEED YOUR ATTENTION *
;************************************************

;*****
;the following was submitted by Dan
;the-technocrat.blogspot.com
;*****

;note: some of the settings below are commented out for your own good!

;Specify the background image
;[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
;”WallpaperStyle”=”2″
;”Wallpaper”=”C:\background.JPG”

;Tell Windows XP how much L2 on-die cache memory there is (in KB)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
“SecondLevelDataCache”=”128″

;Set default Internet Explorer download directory
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer]
“Download Directory”=”H:\”

;Change title bar in Internet Explorer
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
“Window Title”=”The Technocrat – the-technocrat.blogspot.com”

;Set IE Homepage
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
“StartPage”=”http://the-technocrat.blogspot.com/”

;Set power scheme to ‘Always On’
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\PowerCfg]
“CurrentPowerPolicy”=”3″
;0 = Home/Office Desk
;1 = Portable/Laptop
;2 = Presentation
;3 = Always On
;4 = Minimal Power Management
;5 = Max Battery

;Specify Windows installation directory
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup]
“SourcePath”=”C:\I386″

;Turn off Windows XP fade effect
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
“UserPreferenceMask”=hex:9e,28,07,80

;Disable cache of thumbnail images
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\Advanced]
“DisableThumbnailCache”=dword:00000000

;Remove shortcut arrows from shortcut icons
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile]
“IsShortcut”=-

;Disable Window Animations
[ HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
“MinAnimate”=”0″

;Disable Internet Explorer error reporting
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
“IEWatsonEnabled”=dword:00000000
“IEWatsonDisabled”=dword:00000001

;Disable re-creation of Links folder on favorites menu
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar]
“LinksFolderName”=”"

;Allow QoS scheduling full control over bandwidth, instead of limiting to 20%
;(A program which has bandwidth priority will be allowed access to full bandwidth speed, not 20% of total available bandwidth, as is the default. Note that the NIC may be another story)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Psched[
"NonBestEffortLimit"=dword:00000000

;Turn on ClearType
;(pretty for LCD's)
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
“FontSmoothing”=”2″
“FontSmoothingType”=dword:00000002

;Turn on Active Window Tracking
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Mouse]
“ActiveWindowTracking”=dword:00000001

;Automatically close non-responsive applications when shutting down
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
“AutoEndTasks”=”1″

;Power down the machine after shutdown
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
“PowerdownAfterShutdown”=dword:00000001

;Turn off un-needed services (many settings follow!)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Alerter]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ALG]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AppMgmt]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AudioSrv]
“Start”=dword:00000002

; Need this one for Windows Update – commented out
;[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BITS]
;”Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\cisvc]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ClipSrv]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\COMSysApp]
“Start”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CryptSvc]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dmadmin]
“Start”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dmserver]
“Start”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ERSvc]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventSystem]
“Start”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\FastUserSwitchingCompatibility]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Fax]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\helpsvc]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidServ]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\IISADMIN]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ImapiService]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Iprip]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanworkstation]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LmHosts]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LPDSVC]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Messenger]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\mnmsrvc]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSDTC]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSFtpsvc]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSIServer]
“Start”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSMQ]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSMQTriggers]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetDDE]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetDDEdsdm]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netman]
“Start”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Nla]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtLmSsp]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtmsSvc]
“Start”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PlugPlay]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PolicyAgent]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ProtectedStorage]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RasAuto]
“Start”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RasMan]
“Start”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RDSessMgr]
“Start”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RemoteRegistry]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RpcLocator]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RpcSs]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RSVP]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SamSs]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SCardDrv]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SCardSvr]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Schedule]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\seclogon]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SENS]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ShellHWDetection]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SimpTcp]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SMTPSVC]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SNMP]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SNMPTRAP]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Spooler]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\srservice]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SSDPSRV]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\stisvc]
“Start”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SwPrv]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SysmonLog]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TapiSrv]
“Start”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TermService]
“Start”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Themes]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TlntSvr]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TrkWks]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\uploadmgr]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\upnphost]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UPS]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VSS]
“Start”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\winmgmt]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WmdmPmSp]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wmi]
“Start”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WmiApSrv]
“Start”=dword:00000004

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wuauserv]
“Start”=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WZCSVC]
“Start”=dword:00000002

;Disable Network Scheduled Tasks
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace\{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}]

;Disable SP2 Security Center
;[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center]
;”AntiVirusDisableNotify”=dword:00000001
;”AntiVirusOverride”=dword:00000001
;”FirewallDisableNotify”=dword:00000001
;”FirewallOverride”=dword:00000001
;”FirstRunDisabled”=dword:00000001
;”UpdatesDisableNotify”=dword:00000001
;[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wscsvc]
;”Start”=dword:00000004

;Gets rid of anoying popup for running files you download from internet
;[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download]
;”CheckExeSignatures”=”no”
;”RunInvalidSignatures”=dword:00000001
;[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments]
;”SaveZoneInformation”=dword:00000001
;[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations]
;”LowRiskFileTypes”=”.zip;.rar;.nfo;.txt;.exe;.bat;.com;.cmd;.reg;.msi;.htm;.html;.gif;.bmp;.jpg;.avi;.mpg;.mpeg;.mov;.mp3;.m3u;.wav;”

;Don’t search Windows Update for drivers (when new HW detected)
;[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DriverSearching]
;”DontSearchWindowsUpdate”=dword:00000001
;”DontPromptForWindowsUpdate”=dword:00000001

;Disable Hiding Inactive Icons
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
“EnableAutoTray”=dword:00000000

;Add register / unregister to the context menu for .dll files
;[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.dll]
;”Content Type”=”application/x-msdownload”
;@=”dllfile”
;[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile]
;@=”Application Extension”
;[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\Shell\Register\command]
;@=”regsvr32.exe \”%1\”"
;[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\dllfile\Shell\UnRegister\command]
;@=”regsvr32.exe /u \”%1\”"

;Add register / unregister to the context menu for .ocx files
;[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ocx]
;@=”ocxfile”
;[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile]
;@=”OCX”
;[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\Shell\Register\command]
;@=”regsvr32.exe \”%1\”"
;[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ocxfile\Shell\UnRegister\command]
;@=”regsvr32.exe /u \”%1\”"

;Disable Taskbar Button Grouping
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
“TaskbarGlomming”=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
“TaskbarGlomming”=dword:00000000

;Show Hidden Devices In Device Manager
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment]
“DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES”=”1″

;Set Classic Start Menu
;HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
;”ShellState”=hex:24,00,00,00,33,28,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,; 01,00,00,00,0d,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00

;Speed up shutdown
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control]
“WaitToKillServiceTimeout”=”3000″

;Disable the Desktop Cleanup Wizard
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\CleanupWiz]
“NoRun”=dword:00000001

;Disables Windows Tour bubble popup
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour]
“RunCount”=dword:00000000

;Disable Built in Windows CD Burning
;[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
;”NoCDBurning”=dword:00000001

;Disable Imapi CD-Burning Service
;[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ImapiService]
;”Start”=dword:00000004

;This will add “services” to the right-click menu of “My Computer”
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\services]
@=hex(2):53,00,65,00,72,00,76,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,73,00,00,00
“SuppressionPolicy”=dword:4000003c
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\services\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6d,00,6d,00,63,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,20,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,65,00,72,00,76,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,73,00,2e,00,6d,00,73,00,63,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,00,00

;Prevents Internet Explorer windows from being reused
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
“AllowWindowReuse”=dword:00000000

;Disables Preview of Movie file formats (allowing you to move/rename/delete without errors)
;[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.avi\ShellEx]
;[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mpg\ShellEx]
;[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mpe\ShellEx]
;[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mpeg\ShellEx]

;Disable Automatic Restart in the event of a BSOD
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl]
“AutoReboot”=dword:00000000

;Disables Error Reporting, but notifies when errors occur
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting]
“DoReport”=dword:00000000

;Disable Messenger Service (to stop spam. Does not affect MSN or Windows Messenger)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Messenger]
“Start”=dword:00000004

;Disable Remote Registry Service
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RemoteRegistry]
“Start”=dword:00000004

;Disable Windows Time Service
;[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time]
;”Start”=dword:00000004

;Disable Balloon Tips
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
“EnableBalloonTips”=dword:00000000

;Remove Shared Documents from My Computer
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\DelegateFolders\{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}]

;Max your Internet Explorer’s simultaneous downloads to 10 (default was 2)
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
“MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server”=dword:0000000a
“MaxConnectionsPerServer”=dword:0000000a

;Change MenuShowDelay (Start Menu load speed)
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
“MenuShowDelay”=”4″

;Removes Language Bar
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{540D8A8B-1C3F-4E32-8132-530F6A502090}]
@=”Language bar”
“MenuTextPUI”=”@%SystemRoot%\\System32\\msutb.dll,-325″

;Allow renaming of Recycle Bin
;[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder]
;”Attributes”=hex:50,01,00,20
;”CallForAttributes”=dword:00000000

;Renames The Recycle Bin
;HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]
;@=”Trash Can”

;NoLowDiskSpaceChecks won’t check if you are low on diskspace and pop up a balloon telling you.
;NoRecentDocsmenu removes the recent documents from the start menu.
;[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
;”NoLowDiskSpaceChecks”=dword:00000001
;”NoRecentDocsMenu”=dword:00000001

;Hide My Computer, IE, My Documents, Network Places Desktop Icons
;[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General]
;”WallpaperFileTime”=hex:ee,e0,3d,a6,87,a9,c4,01
;”WallpaperLocalFileTime”=hex:ee,48,02,08,90,a9,c4,01

;[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons]

;[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStartMenu]
;”{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}”=dword:00000001
;”{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}”=dword:00000001
;”{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}”=dword:00000001
;”{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}”=dword:00000001

;[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
;”{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}”=dword:00000001
;”{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}”=dword:00000001
;”{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}”=dword:00000001
;”{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}”=dword:00000001

;Folder Options Stuff, show hidden files, show file extensions etc.
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
“IconUnderline”=hex(0):03,00,00,00
“NoFileFolderConnection”=dword:00000000

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
“Hidden”=dword:00000001
“HideFileExt”=dword:00000000
“NoNetCrawling”=dword:00000000
“FolderContentsInfoTip”=dword:00000001
“FriendlyTree”=dword:00000001
“WebViewBarricade”=dword:00000000
“DisableThumbnailCache”=dword:00000000
“ShowSuperHidden”=dword:00000001
“ClassicViewState”=dword:00000000
“PersistBrowsers”=dword:00000000

;disable unread mail message at welcome screen
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UnreadMail]
“MessageExpiryDays”=dword:00000000

;Recycle Bin Uses 3% of Available Space Rather than 10%
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BitBucket]
“Percent”=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
“IconUnderline”=hex(0):03,00,00,00

;Disable Error Reporting
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting]
“AllOrNone”=dword:00000001
“DoReport”=dword:00000000
“IncludeKernelFaults”=dword:00000000
“IncludeMicrosoftApps”=dword:00000000
“IncludeWindowsApps”=dword:00000000
“ShowUI”=dword:00000000

;Increase Network Throughput
;[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanworkstation\parameters]
;”MaxCmds”=dword:00000064
;”MaxThreads”=dword:00000064
;”MaxCollectionCount”=dword:00000064

;Faster Web Page Loading
;[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ServiceProvider]
;”DnsPriority”=dword:00000001
;”HostsPriority”=dword:00000001
;”LocalPriority”=dword:00000001
;”NetbtPriority”=dword:00000001

;Broadband Network Optimizations for Windows 2000/XP/2003
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]
“DefaultTTL”=dword:00000040
“EnablePMTUDiscovery”=dword:00000001
“EnablePMTUBHDetect”=dword:00000000
“TcpMaxDupAcks”=dword:00000002
“TcpMaxDataRetransmissions”=dword:00000006
“SackOpts”=dword:00000001
“MTU”=dword:000005dc
“Tcp1323Opts”=dword:00000001
“TcpTimedWaitDelay:=dword:0000001e

;Enable Classic Search
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CabinetState]
“FullPath”=dword:00000001
“FullPathAddress”=dword:00000001
“Use Search Asst”=”no”
“Settings”=hex:0c,00,02,00,1b,01,e7,77,60,00,00,00

;Typing Long File Names In DOS
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command Processor]
“CompletionChar”=dword:00000009

;Adds Device Manager to right click of MY Computer
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\DevMgr]
@=”Device Manager”
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\DevMgr\command]
@=”mmc.exe %%SYSTEMDRIVE%%\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM32\\devmgmt.msc”

;Adds Registry Editor right click of My Computer
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\regedit]
@=”Registry Editor”
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\regedit\command]
@=”Regedit.exe”

;Adds Reboot to right click of My Computer
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Reboot\command]
@=”shutdown -r -f -t 5″

;Adds Shutdown to right click of My Computer
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Shutdown\command]
@=”shutdown -s -f -t 5″

;allows boot files to be placed optimally on the hard-drive for faster boots.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction]
“Enable”=”Y”

;Enable XP to pre-load startup programs on boot
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters]
“EnablePrefetcher”=dword:00000005

;Allow software to run or install even if the signature is invalid
;[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download]
;”RunInvalidSignatures”=dword:00000000
;does not check for signatures on downloaded programs
;”CheckExeSignatures”=”no”

;Speed up opening of My Computer and Explorer
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\stisvc]
“Start”=dword:00000004
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
“NoSaveSettings”=dword:00000000
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
“NoNetCrawling”=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
“NoRemoteRecursiveEvents”=dword:00000001

;Speeds up copying/moving of zip files (disable windows built in zip functionality)
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.zip\CompressedFolder]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E88DCCE0-B7B3-11d1-A9F0-00AA0060FA31}]
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CompressedFolder]

;Faster reboot time
“EnableQuickReboot”=”1″

;Enable Quick Launch
;[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop]
;”TaskbarWinXP”=hex:0c,00,00,00,08,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,b0,e2,2b,;d8,64,57,d0,11,a9,6e,00,c0,4f,d7,05,a2,22,00,1c,00,0a,01,00,00,1a,00,00,00,;01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,4c,00,00,00,01,14,02,00,00,;00,00,00,c0,00,00,00,00,00,00,46,83,00,00,00,10,00,00,00,a0,b0,48,5e,89,8d,;bd,01,00,d8,9e,e4,2a,8d,bd,01,00,45,fe,5e,89,8d,bd,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,;00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,13,01,14,00,1f,0f,e0,4f,;d0,20,ea,3a,69,10,a2,d8,08,00,2b,30,30,9d,19,00,23,44,3a,5c,00,00,00,00,00,;00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,cd,97,15,00,31,00,00,00,00,00,af,24,5c,;b9,10,80,57,69,6e,6e,74,00,00,20,00,31,00,00,00,00,00,af,24,a3,b9,10,00,50,;72,6f,66,69,6c,65,73,00,50,52,4f,46,49,4c,45,53,00,19,00,31,00,00,00,00,00,;c1,24,08,92,10,00,69,65,35,30,30,2e,30,30,30,00,00,28,00,31,00,00,00,00,00,;c1,24,08,92,10,00,41,70,70,6c,69,63,61,74,69,6f,6e,20,44,61,74,61,00,41,50,;50,4c,49,43,7e,31,00,21,00,31,00,00,00,00,00,c5,22,9d,91,10,00,4d,69,63,72,;6f,73,6f,66,74,00,4d,49,43,52,4f,53,7e,31,00,29,00,31,00,00,00,00,00,d3,22,;32,a6,10,00,49,6e,74,65,72,6e,65,74,20,45,78,70,6c,6f,72,65,72,00,49,4e,54,;45,52,4e,7e,31,00,24,00,31,00,00,00,00,00,db,22,76,ba,10,00,51,75,69,63,6b,;20,4c,61,75,6e,63,68,00,51,55,49,43,4b,4c,7e,31,00,00,00,8d,00,00,00,1c,00,;00,00,01,00,00,00,1c,00,00,00,36,00,00,00,0d,f0,ad,ba,8c,00,00,00,1a,00,00,;00,03,00,00,00,e7,18,2d,23,10,00,00,00,49,45,35,30,30,5f,58,31,43,00,43,3a,;5c,57,49,4e,4e,54,5c,50,72,6f,66,69,6c,65,73,5c,49,45,35,30,30,2e,30,30,30,;5c,41,70,70,6c,69,63,61,74,69,6f,6e,20,44,61,74,61,5c,4d,69,63,72,6f,73,6f,;66,74,5c,49,6e,74,65,72,6e,65,74,20,45,78,70,6c,6f,72,65,72,5c,51,75,69,63,;6b,20,4c,61,75,6e,63,68,00,00,10,00,00,00,05,00,00,a0,1a,00,00,00,a3,00,00,;00,00,00,00,00,08,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,cc,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,;4a,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,40,00,32,00,e6,01,00,00,c4,24,15,9f,20,00,4c,61,75,;6e,63,68,20,49,6e,74,65,72,6e,65,74,20,45,78,70,6c,6f,72,65,72,20,42,72,6f,;77,73,65,72,2e,6c,6e,6b,00,4c,41,55,4e,43,48,7e,32,2e,4c,4e,4b,00,00,00,40,;00,00,00,02,00,00,00,36,00,32,00,48,02,00,00,c4,24,15,9f,20,00,4c,61,75,6e,;63,68,20,4f,75,74,6c,6f,6f,6b,20,45,78,70,72,65,73,73,2e,6c,6e,6b,00,4c,41,;55,4e,43,48,7e,31,2e,4c,4e,4b,00,00,00,36,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,2c,00,32,00,;51,00,00,00,ec,22,46,39,20,00,53,68,6f,77,20,44,65,73,6b,74,6f,70,2e,73,63,;66,00,53,48,4f,57,44,45,7e,31,2e,53,43,46,00,00,00,52,00,00,00,e0,00,00,00,;00,00,00,00,16,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,16,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,01,;00,00,00,01,00,00,00,aa,4f,28,68,48,6a,d0,11,8c,78,00,c0,4f,d9,18,b4,37,02,;00,00,e0,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,16,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,16,00,00,;00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00

;Disable file system indexing
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\CDFS]
“CacheSize”=hex:ac,09,00,00
“Prefetch”=dword:00004000
“PrefetchTail”=dword:00004000

;Disable File System ‘Last Accessed’ logging
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
“NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate”=dword:00000001

;Disable DOS 8.3 filename translation
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
“NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation”=dword:00000001

;Disable use of hard drive for RAM paging
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
“DisablePagingExecutive”=dword:00000001

;Load XP kernel into RAM on boot
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
“LargeSystemCache”=dword:00000001

;Unload DLL’s when you are done with them
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
“AlwaysUnloadDLL”=”1″

;Don’t cache failed DNS lookups
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]
“MaxNegativeCacheTtl”=”0″
“NegativeCacheTime”=”0″
“NetFailureCacheTime”=”0″
“NegativeSOACacheTime”=”0″

;Disable Windows Media Player Updates
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\PlayerUpgrade]
“AskMeAgain”=”No”

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