Small increase in performance by having NTFS not note down the time of each file access.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate"=dword:00000001
ntfs-disable-last-access-time.reg (150 bytes, 92 hits)If you have the ATi Catalyst Control Center installed then you may have come accross hundreds if not thousands of event viewer records from “amdkmdag” with a single line of data “UVD Information”.
This is supposedly the graphics driver notifying you that a peice of video has not passed HDCP checks (read: DRM for video).
To disable this and suppress the messages, make the following registry change,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Atierecord
eRecordEnable = 0 (dword)
Or download and run the following file to make the change automatically.
amdkmdag.reg (137 bytes, 506 hits)I wanted a Windows XP client which was not a member of the domain to have the same look and feel as the rest of the domain member clients. Part of creating this effect was to enable the Ctrl-Alt-Del to login prompt at startup.
In order to enable the Ctrl-Alt-Del prompt at startup in Windows XP you need to set or create the DWORD registry entry “DisableCAD” to 0.
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
DisableCAD = “0″
You can download this registry file to set this for you.
Enable Ctrl-Alt-Del Login Prompt for WinXP (140 bytes, 979 hits)
See more information at Microsoft Technet.