Invisible users

If you have a Vista Workstation and you want to share files there are two ways to do it :

1. Safely with a login account and password
2. Unsafely with the guest account

Vista recommends the first method, but all the users also appear on the logon screen of Vista. Using the next Vista tweak you can hide users on the logon screen :

1. Open regedit
2. Open the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon
3. Create a new key “SpecialAccounts”
4. Within this key create another key “UserList”
5. Within this key go to the right pane and create a new DWORD (32-bit) and give it the name of the user you want to hide on the logon screen.  Leave the value to its default value which is “0”.

Now if you go to your logon screen you will see that the selected accounts are disappeared.

Better view on the map-window

If you open Explorer, and use it to browse through you folders, the left pane will automatically update itself  to a visual view of the place you are in.  If you don’t like it or don’t find it very clearly you can change this to a nicer tree view.

1. Open regedit
2. Open the registrykey KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\advanced
3. Doubleclick the DWORD “FriendlyTree”
4. Change this from the default value “1” to “0”

Keeping OS in RAM

If your computer has enough RAM, you can use a registry hack to keep the most important system processes in memory instead of the virtual memory on your hard disk.

1. Open regedit
2. Open the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
3. Doubleclick on the DWORD “DisablePagingExecutive” and change its value from “0” to “1”.

Now all the pure system resources will be kept in memory which can give you a great performance boost.
Remark : only do this when you have enough RAM memory.