Professional Information Technology-Programming Book part 151 doc

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: Mice and Keyboards

Change Mouse Double-Click Sensitivity (All Windows)
This setting controls the amount of mouse movement allowed between clicks, for
two consecutive clicks to be registered as a double-click.
Change Mouse Wheel Scroll Settings (All Windows)
This tweak determines the number of lines scrolled for each rotation of the mouse
wheel on a Microsoft IntelliMouse (or compatible) when no modifier keys (such as
[Ctrl] or [Shift]) are pressed.
Active Window Tracking (All Windows)
This tweak allows you to bring running programs to the foreground just by moving
you mouse of the application window. This is similar to the X-Mouse feature
found on UNIX operating systems.
Change the Keyboard Preferences (All Windows)
These settings allow you to configure the repeat rate, blink rate and repeat delay of
your keyboard.
Increase Application Keyboard Response Time (Windows 95/98/Me)
When running more than one application at a time, you may find that your system's
keyboard response is slower. To alleviate this, you can adjust the amount of time
allocated to processing keystrokes.
Disable the Windows Key (Windows NT/2000/XP) Popular
This tweak disables the Windows key that is found between the Ctrl and Alt keys
on a Windows enhanced keyboard.
Detect Accidental Double Clicks (All Windows)
This setting is used to control whether explorer should attempt to automatically
detect accidental double mouse clicks.

Change Wheel Mouse Detection (Windows NT/2000/XP)
This setting controls whether the driver should attempt to detect and enable the
wheel on the mouse device. The mouse wheel provides rapid scrolling and other
control features.
PS2 Mouse Port Rate Adjustment (Windows NT)
Ever noticed how your mouse cursor flickers sometimes or doesn't run as smoothly
as you would like? That's because the refresh rate is set too low, modify this key to
speed things up and make your mouse cursor move smoothly.
Change the Keyboard Buffer Size (Windows NT/2000/XP)
Occasionally Windows may report an error relating to an overflow in the keyboard
buffer. This tweak can be used to increase the size of the buffer, and avoid this
problem.
Change the Mouse Buffer Size (Windows NT/2000/XP)
Occasionally Windows may report an error relating to an overflow in the mouse
buffer. This tweak can be used to increase the size of the buffer, and avoid this
problem.
Display Mouse Pointer Trails (All Windows)
This setting allows you to control whether trails are shown behind the movement
of the mouse pointer to increase visibility.
Reverse the Mouse Buttons (All Windows)
By default the left mouse button is the primary mouse button and the right is the
secondary. This tweak lets you swap those buttons around to make the right the
primary, which may be useful for left handed users.
Control the Mouse "Snap To" Feature (All Windows)
When enabled, this setting causes the mouse pointer to snap-to the default button
of the active application window.
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: Network and Modems

Speed-up Modem and Serial Connections (Windows 95/98/Me)
Windows is normally limited to a default maximum speed of 115,200 bps for serial
communications. By using compression and high-speed UARTS modern modems
may reach this limit and not be allowed to operate at full speed. This tweak allows
Windows to communicate with speeds of 230400, 460800 and 921600 bps.
Load Balance Network Adapters (Windows NT/2000/XP)
If you have two or more network cards in your system this setting allows you to
distribute the number of connections, or sessions among the adapters according to
a randomizing algorithm.
Configuring Unimodem Support (Windows NT)
Windows NT 4.0 and greater support Unimodem modems, if your device is not
supported though Windows can be configured to use the MODEM.INF file instead.
PCMCIA Network Power Management (Windows 95/98/Me)
When using a PC Card network adapter you might not be able to connect the
computer to the network, and under Control Panel > System there is a yellow
exclamation mark "!" next to the card.
Enable Random Adapter Responses (Windows 95/98/Me)
For a computer with multiple network adapters, this setting specifies whether to
respond with an IP address selected randomly from the range of addresses on the
computer or whether to return the IP address of the adapter that the request came in
upon.
Enable the Network Adapter Onboard Processor (Windows 2000/XP) Popular
If your network adapter has an onboard processor, designed to offload network
processing from the system CPU, it is disabled by default. This setting allows you
to enable it and increase the processing speed of your system.
Disable Automatic Modem Connections at Startup (All Windows)
If remote connections are enabled in Windows, the system may try to initiate an

Internet connection at Windows startup or at the start of many applications. This
setting disables that behaviour.
Speed Up ISP Logon Time (Windows 95/98/Me) Popular
On some systems it can take a long time to connect to the Internet, you can
decrease the time required to connect to your ISP by trying these simple steps.
Faster Modem Dialing (Windows 95/98/Me) Popular
Waiting to long for your modem to dial? This tip lets you reduce the time it takes
your modem to dial, and increase your overall modem connection speed.
Configure the TCP/IP Settings of a Network Adapter (Windows NT/2000/XP)
Popular
These values control the TCP/IP parameters of the network interface cards.
Configurable parameters include IP Address, Subnet Mask and Default Gateway.
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: Printers and Plotters

Change the Printer Spooler Priority (Windows NT/2000/XP)
Normally the printer spooler runs at the same priority as other services on a
system. If your system is being mainly used for printing or handles a large number
of print jobs you can use this tweak to change the priority class the print spooler.
Enable Wide Text Printing in Microsoft Word (All Windows)
When you print a document that contains extended characters, such as Greek
symbols, to certain printers that do not support Unicode characters, the extended
characters may be printed as square boxes. This tweak should resolve the problem
on most printers.
Disable Web Printing (Windows 2000/XP)
This restriction enables and disables server support for Internet printing. Internet

printing lets you display printers on Web pages so they can be viewed, managed,
and used across the Internet or an intranet.
Disable Print Job Notification in Event Viewer (Windows NT/2000/XP)
By default Windows NT server adds an entry in the event log for every print job
occurring on the spooler. This can quickly fill up the event log with redundant
information.
Define the Scheduler Priority (Windows NT/2000/XP)
This setting controls the overall priority of the printer scheduler.
Disable the Printer Server Browse Thread (Windows NT/2000/XP)
When this option is enabled, the print spooler does not send shared printer
information to other print servers.
Beep on Printer Errors (Windows NT/2000/XP)
When this setting is enabled the machine will beep every few seconds when a
remote job error occurs on a print server.
Changing the Default Printer Spool Directory (Windows NT/2000/XP)
Windows uses the hard drive to store information before sending it to a printer. If
the system is acting as a print server it is possible that the default location may
cause insufficient disk space.
Enable Print Job Notification Messages (Windows NT/2000/XP)
By default Windows notifies a user with a popup message that their print job has
been completed on the printer. This setting controls that behavior.
Specify Where to Display Printer Notifications (Windows NT/2000/XP)
This setting controls whether print job notification should be sent to the local
computer or the computer that the user first logged on to.
Specify the Printer Browser Timeout (Windows NT/2000/XP)
This setting is used to specify the time a network printer should remain in the
browse list before it is removed.
Specify the Print Server Broadcast Timeout (Windows NT/2000/XP)
This setting is used to specify the timeout period between broadcasts of a print
servers resources.

Show Cascading Printers Folder (Windows 2000/Me/XP)
This tweak controls whether the 'Printers' sub-folder under 'Settings' on the Start
Menu, is displayed as a cascading folder.
Change a Users Default Printer (All Windows)
This setting will allow you the change the default printer of a user by modifying
the registry.
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: Processor and Motherboard

Increase the USB Polling Interval (Windows 98/Me/2000/XP)
By default the USB polling interval is once every millisecond (ms). Even if no
USB devices are connected the polling operation is still performed and the
processor may not be able to enter power-saving state. Use this tweak to increase
the polling interval.
Optimize Large Second Level Cache (Windows NT/2000/XP) Popular
Windows is optimized for a 256KB secondary cache by default. With most
computers now having L2 caches larger than that it pays to take the time to change
the setting to correspond to the size of the cache memory installed.
Manage the CPU Task Priority (Windows 95/98/Me)
This setting allows you to manage how the system processor should prioritize
foreground and background tasks.
System Board and Memory Optimizations (Windows 95/98/Me)
These settings allow you to optimize the AGP and PCI buses along with the system
memory by reducing the number of wait states (idle time).