Playing with Windows Registry: Part 4D

Welcome to the fourth articles of the "Modifying Desktop and Start Menu" parts. I'm sure you've learned a lot of things in the previous articles, and now you'll get even deeper into it. There are still so many things about modifying desktop and start menu by using Windows Registry and that's why this article is here.

PART IV-4
Modifying Desktop and Start Menu-4

1. Changing "My Computer" text into "Username on ComputerName".
My Computer icon is one of Windows Special Folder that can't be normally removed (deleted), although so it can be easily renamed. But to make it automatically renamed for each user, you will need some special work on it. Well, let's just try to do a simple auto renaming, by renaming it into "username on computername"

- Open Windows Registry Editor
- Go to this path: HKCR-CLSID-{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
- Find the "LocalizedString" value
- Rename in into whatever you like (for backup)
- Create another "LocalizedString" value
- Change the value into "%username% on %computername%"
- Restart your computer or re-login.
- Check out what it looks like.

2. Disabling Info Tip Popup.
When we placed the mouse indicator on an icon, a popup showing some texts about that icon will appear and this is called Info Tip. Sometimes those things are useful, but other times it will feel annoying. So here you'll find out how to disable that setting.

- Open Windows Registry Editor
- Go to this path: HKCU-Software-Microsoft-Windows-CurrentVersion-Explorer-Advanced
- Create a new DWORD Value key
- Find a value named "ShowInfoTip"
- Change the value into "0" to disable it.
- Change it again to "1" to enable it.
- Restart your computer or re-login to see the effects

3. Disable Desktop Cleanup Wizard.

For a user that doesn't care much about appearance and only want to have things easy, they won't care too much when his / her desktop is full. Sometimes Windows will help to clean some useless icons from the Desktop. But for those who think that their Desktop content is important, they'll find this Wizard annoying. Because of that you'll learn how to disable that wizard.

- Open Windows Registry Editor
- Go to this path: HKCU-Software-Microsoft-Windows-CurrentVersion-Explorer-Desktop-CleanupWiz
- Create a new DWORD value
- Name it "Norun"
- Change it to 1 to disable the wizard.
- Change it to 0 to enable it.
- Restart your computer or re-login to see the changes.

4. Remove Username from Start Menu
In default settings username will always be shown on the top of the Start Menu. However, if you don't like it, you can always remove it from there. To do so:

- Open Windows Registry Editor
- Go to this path: HKCU-Software-Microsoft-Windows-CurrentVersion-Policies-Explorer
- Create a new DWORD value
- Name it "NoUsernameInStartMenu"
- Change it to 1 to enable the settings.
- Change it to 0 to disable it.
- Restart your computer or log off to see the effects.

* This is the end of the fourh part of "Modifying Desktop and Start Menu" series.