Vista Registry Tweaks - Tips to play with Windows Registry

By Arvind Singh

The most important tool available for Vista registry tweaking is the Registry Editor (regedit.exe), which allows you to view and manually edit the contents of Windows Registry. The window of the Registry Editor is divided into two pans of which the left side contains a tree with keys that are represented as folders. The right side shows the values contained in currently selected specific key. There are several tweaks that you can perform using the Registry Editor. Among them, some of the important Vista registry tweaks are:

Appearance tweaks

To remove the annoying ToolTips that appears whenever you mouse over something:

Open the Registry Editor by typing regedit in the Run option of the Start Menu.

Select HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer > Advanced.

Set ShowInfoTip = dword:00000000

Exit from regedit and reboot your system

To get rid of arrows present in shortcuts:



Open regedit and select HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT > lnkfile

Rename isShortcut available in the right pan to AriochlsShortcut

Exit regedit and reboot your system


To change the delay on menus:

Open regedit and select HKEY_ CURRENT_USER > Control Panel > Desktop

Set the value of MenuShowDelay to specify the time you need the menus to be popped up

Exit regedit and reboot your system


Security tweaks

To tweak the User Account Control (UAC):

Open regedit and select HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Policies

Set the value of PromptOnSecureDesktop to 0, which disables the desktop security to provide easy UAC

Exit regedit and reboot your system

User Tweaks

To change the registered owner:

Open regedit and select HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion

Right click RegisteredOwner and select Modify

Enter the correct owner

Exit regedit and reboot your system.


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