Configuring the Windows Time Service

This article walks you through the process of setting up an authoritative time server for a Windows Server 2003-based network running Active Directory. The article outlines procedures for syncing to both an internal and external time source, and also lists additional resources for configuring the Windows Time service and troubleshooting time synchronization problems.

The Windows Time service (W32Time) is designed to maintain date and time synchronization for computers running Windows 2000XP/2003. The primary use for such time synchronization is to ensure the security of Kerberos authentication within an Active Directory environment. To prevent replay attacks, Kerberos tickets presented to domain controllers by clients are time-stamped. The authenticating domain controller checks to make sure the timestamp is unique and falls within an allowable skew before accepting the ticket and authenticating the client. To ensure this system works properly, both the client and the domain controller clocks must be loosely synchronized within the allowable skew, and W32Time ensures this is the case.

W32Time is based on the Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) as specified in RFC RFC 1769 (now superceded by RFC 2030). SNTP is designed to ensure loose synchronization only, which in the W32Time implementation means the clocks of all Windows 2000/XP/2003 machines in a forest will agree within 20 seconds of one another (or 2 seconds difference within a particular site). W32Time expresses clock times in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), an atomic time scale previously known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). W32Time is started by default on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 machines regardless of whether they belong to a workgroup or a domain. On Windows 2000 however, W32Time must be manually started on machines belonging to a workgroup.

Time Hierarchy

W32Time synchronizes clocks within a forest using a time hierarchy that begins with the PDC Emulator in the forest root domain, which is considered the stratum 2 time source for the forest. This domain controller can have its own clock controlled several ways:

• By synching to a reliable time server on the Internet.
• By synching to an locally-connected hardware time source such as an atomic clock.
• By relying on its own internal CMOS clock for reliable time.

In the first two examples above, the Internet time server or atomic clock is considered a stratum 1 time source. Other domain controllers in the forest root domain and PDC Emulators in child domains use W32Time to poll the PDC Emulator in the forest root domain periodically to ensure their clocks remain synchronized. Workstations and member servers then poll domain controllers in their domains to synchronize their own clocks, with the result being that all computers in the forest synchronize their clocks, either directly or indirectly, with the PDC Emulator in the forest root domain (and hence the external time server or atomic clock, if present). The following table summarizes how the W32Time hierarchy works, starting from the external source.

Stratum	Description
1	Locally connected hardware clock (optional) Internet time server (optional)
2	PDC Emulator in forest root domain
3	Other domain controllers in forest root domain PDC Emulators in child domains
4	Workstations and member servers in forest root domain Other domain controllers in child domains
5	Workstations and member servers in child domains

The polling process is initiated when W32Time starts on the client and is repeated every 45 minutes by default. If clocks are determined to be synchronized for three consecutive polls, the polling interval is increased to every 8 hours.

Note
Because of changes in the operation of the Windows Time service, the remainder of this article focuses on time synchronization in an Active Directory environment where domain controllers are running Windows Server 2003. For information about configuring W32Time in a Windows 2000 domain controller environment, see the following white paper from Microsoft.

Synching to an Internal Time Source

The simplest solution to time synchronization in an Active Directory environment is to let the PDC Emulator in the forest root domain use its own CMOS clock as the source of reliable time for the forest. To do this, you can simply take no action. The only annoying result is that you will occasionally see the following event logged to the System log in Event Viewer:

Event ID: 12

Event source: W32Time

Event description: Time Provider NtpClient: This machine is configured to use the domain hierarchy to determine its time source, but it is the PDC emulator for the domain at the root of the forest, so there is no machine above it in the domain hierarchy to use as a time source. It is recommended that you either configure a reliable time service in the root domain, or manually configure the PDC to synchronize with an external time source. Otherwise, this machine will function as the authoritative time source in the domain hierarchy. If an external time source is not configured or used for this computer, you may choose to disable the NtpClient.

Basically, what this event means is that the PDC Emulator in the forest root domain has not been configured to synchronize its clock with an external stratum 1 time source, and as a result the clocks on all machines in your forest cannot be considered reliable. Now this may be an issue if employees rely upon their workstations’ CMOS clocks for signing in and out, but as far as Kerberos is concerned it’s a non-issue because Kerberos only requires that clocks on clients and authenticators agree with each other, not that they display accurate time. So if every machine’s clock in the forest is one hour late, Kerberos will still work fine and replay attacks will be prevented, which is the purpose of W32Time anyway.

Synching to an External Time Source

If you want to ensure that the clocks on your machines are more accurate in terms of absolute (and not just relative) time, you can sync the PDC Emulator in your forest root domain to one of the reliable time servers available on the Internet. This is a good idea if your company is a large enterprise with sites spanning several countries, or if your organization has two or more forests linked by forest trusts. The procedure for doing this on a PDC Emulator running Windows Server 2003 in the forest root domain is as follows. Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and configure the following registry entries:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters\Type

This registry entry determines which peers W32Time will accept synchronization from. Change this REG_SZ value from NT5DS to NTP so the PDC Emulator synchronizes from the list of reliable time servers specified in the NtpServer registry entry described below.

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config\AnnounceFlags

This registry entry controls whether the local computer is marked as a reliable time server (which is only possible if the previous registry entry is set to NTP as described above). Change this REG_DWORD value from 10 to 5 here.

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters\NtpServer

This registry entry specifies a space-delimited list of stratum 1 time servers from which the local computer can obtain reliable time stamps. The list may consist of one or more DNS names or IP addresses (if DNS names are used then you must append ,0x1 to the end of each DNS name). For example, to synchronize the PDC Emulator in your forest root domain with tock.usno.navy.mil, an open-access SNTP time server run by the United States Naval Observatory, change the value of the NtpServer registry entry from time.windows.com,0x1 to tock.usno.navy.mil,0x1 here. Alternatively, you can specify the IP address of this time server, which is 192.5.41.209 instead.

Now stop and restart the Windows Time service using the following commands:

net stop w32time

net start w32time

It may take an hour or so for the PDC Emulator to fully synchronize with the external time server because of the nature of the polling method W32Time uses. Depending on the latency of your Internet connection, the accuracy of the CMOS clock on your forest root PDC Emulator may be within a second or two of UTC. If you need more accurate time however, you can purchase a hardware time source like an atomic clock and connect it to your PDC emulator.

Alternatively, if you don’t want to wait for time convergence to occur between your stratum 2 time server (your forest root PDC Emulator) and the external stratum 1 time server, you can run the following command on your PDC Emulator:

w32tm /resync /rediscover

Tip
There are additional registry settings you can configure to ensure external time synchronization operates effectively, see this article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base for details.

Additional Resources

The following resources can be of use in configuring and troubleshooting operation of the Windows Time service in Windows-based environments:

• How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server 2003 - This KB article outlines in further detail how to sync your forest root PDC Emulator to both internal and external time sources. It also has several tips for troubleshooting time synchronization problems involving W32Time.
• How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows XP - This KB article is useful if you need to sync standalone XP machines to an external time source.
• Windows Time Service Tools and Settings - This section of the online Windows Server 2003 Technical Reference describes the tools, registry settings, and Group Policy settings that can be used for configuring the Windows Time service.
• USNO NTP Network Time Servers - This page on the website for the Time Service Department of the United States Naval Observatory lists the different stratum 1 external time servers operated by the USNO that you can use to establish reliable time on your Active Directory-based network.

Final Tip

Be sure to open UDP port 123 on the firewall at your network’s edge if you are syncing your forest root PDC Emulator to an external time source on the Internet. This is because UDP port 123 is the default port used by SNTP, which is the protocol used by W32Time for time synchronization over a network. Furthermore, if you have deployed Windows XP Service Pack 2 then you need to ensure UDP port 123 is also opened on Windows Firewall on your desktop machines as well.

How to change Terminal Server's listening port (RDP Port)

Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

322756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/ ) How to back up and restore the registry in Windows

To change the default port for all new connections created on the Terminal Server:

1. Run Regedt32 and go to this key:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp
   NOTE: The above registry key is one path; it has been wrapped for readability.
   
   
2. Find the "PortNumber" subkey and notice the value of 00000D3D, hex for (3389). Modify the port number in Hex and save the new value.
   
   To change the port for a specific connection on the Terminal Server:
   • Run Regedt32 and go to this key:
     HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\connection
     NOTE: The above registry key is one path; it has been wrapped for readability.
3. Find the "PortNumber" subkey and notice the value of 00000D3D, hex for (3389). Modify the port number in Hex and save the new value.
   
   NOTE: Because the use of alternate ports has not been fully implemented for Terminal Server 4.0, support will be provided as "reasonable effort" only, and Microsoft may require you to set the port back to 3389, if any problems occur.

To Alter the Port on the Client Side

1. Open Client Connection Manager.
2. On the File menu, click New Connection, and then create the new connection. After running the wizard, you should have a new connection listed there.
3. Making sure that the new connection is highlighted, on the File menu, click Export. Save it as name.cns.
4. Edit the .cns file using Notepad changing "Server Port=3389" to "Server Port=xxxx" where xxxx is the new port that you specified on Terminal Server.
5. Now import the file back into Client Connection Manager. You may be prompted to overwrite the current one, if it has the same name. Go ahead and overwrite it. You now have a client that has the correct port settings to match your change Terminal Server settings.

NOTE The Windows 2000 Terminal Server ActiveX client connects only to TCP port 3389. This configuration cannot be changed. The Terminal Server ActiveX client that is available in Microsoft Windows XP and in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 supports the ability to modify the port settings. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

326945 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326945/ ) How to change the listening port in the Windows Terminal Server Web client

NOTE: You must restart the Terminal Server before the new listening port becomes active, or recreate the RDP listener via Terminal Services configuration.

How do I Flush DNS?

Most DNS clients cache the results of name resolution requests. This speeds up name resolution if multiple lookups are done to the same address, such as is common when browsing the web.

Sometimes a bad DNS entry will be cached and you will need to either flush the DNS cache to get rid of it, or wait up to 24 hours for it to be dropped from the cache automatically.

How to Flush DNS in Microsoft Windows

In Microsoft Windows, you can use the command ipconfig /flushdns to flush the DNS resolver cache:

C:\>ipconfig /flushdns

Windows IP Configuration

Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.

You can also use the command ipconfig /displaydns to view the DNS resolver cache.

Turning off DNS Caching under Microsoft Windows

If you experience frequent issues with DNS caching under Microsoft Windows, you can disable client-side DNS caching with either of these two commands:

• net stop dnscache
• sc servername stop dnscache

This will disable DNS caching until the next reboot. To make the change permanent, use the Service Controller tool or the Services tool to set the DNS Client service startup type to Disabled.

Tuning DNS Caching under Microsoft Windows

You can modify the behavior of the Microsoft Windows DNS caching algorithm by setting two registry entries in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters registry key.

The MaxCacheTtl represents the maximum time that the results of a DNS lookup will be cached. The default value is 86,400 seconds. If you set this value to 1, DNS entries will only be cashed for a single second.

MaxNegativeCacheTtl represents the maximim time that the results of a failed DNS lookup will be cached. The default value is 900 seconds. If you set this value to 0, failed DNS lookups will not be cached.

How to Flush DNS in Mac OSX

In Mac OSX Leopard, you can use the command dscacheutil -flushcache to flush the DNS resolver cache:

bash-2.05a$ dscacheutil -flushcache

In Mac OSX versions 10.5.1 and before, the command lookupd -flushcache performed the same task:

bash-2.05a$ lookupd -flushcache

How to Flush DNS in Linux

In Linux, the nscd daemon manages the DNS cache.

To flush the DNS cache, restart the nscd daemon.

To restart the nscd daemon, use the command `/etc/init.d/nscd restart`.

How to flush DNS cache in Linux / Windows / Mac

Flush dns to get a new name resolution. Also flush dns cache when you can’t access a newly registered domain name. You can simply flush your dns cache anytime to get new entry. So, Flush your dns cache now.

To flush DNS cache in Microsoft Windows (Win XP, Win ME, Win 2000):-

- Start -> Run -> type cmd
- in command prompt, type ipconfig /flushdns
- Done! You Window DNS cache has just been flush.

To flush the DNS cache in Linux, restart the nscd daemon:-

- To restart the nscd daemon, type /etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd restart in your terminal
- Once you run the command your linux DNS cache will flush.

To flush the DNS cache in Mac OS X Leopard:-

- type lookupd -flushcache in your terminal to flush the DNS resolver cache.
ex: bash-2.05a$ lookupd -flushcache
- Once you run the command your DNS cache (in Mac OS X) will flush.

To flush the DNS cache in Mac OS X:-

- type dscacheutil -flushcache in your terminal to flush the DNS resolver cache.
ex: bash-2.05a$ dscacheutil -flushcache
- Once you run the command your DNS cache (in Mac OS X Leopard) will flush.

Zenoss and the Art of Network Monitoring

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? This the classic query designed to place your mind into the Zen-like state known as the silent mind. Whether or not you want to hear a tree fall, if you run a network, you probably want to hear a server when it goes down. Many organizations utilize the long-established Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) as a way to monitor their networks proactively and listen for things going down.

At a rudimentary level, SNMP requires only two items to work: a management server and a managed device (or devices). The management server pulls status and health information at regular intervals from the managed devices and stores the information in a table. Managed devices use local SNMP agents to notify the management server when defined behavior occurs (such as errors or “traps”), which are stored in the same table on the server. The result is an accurate, real-time reporting mechanism for outages. However, SNMP as a protocol does not stipulate how the data in these tables is to be presented and managed for the end user. That's where a promising new open-source network-monitoring software called Zenoss (pronounced Zeen-ohss) comes in.

Available for most Linux distributions, Zenoss builds on the basic operation of SNMP and uses a comprehensive interface to manage even the largest and most diverse environment. The Core version of Zenoss used in this article is freely available under the GPLv2. An Enterprise version also is available with additional features and support. In this article, we install Zenoss on a CentOS 5.1 system to observe its usefulness in a network-monitoring role. From there, we create a simulated multisystem server network using the following systems: a Fedora-based Postfix e-mail server, an Ubuntu server running Apache and a Windows server running File and Print services. To conserve space, only the CentOS installation is discussed in detail here. For the managed systems, only SNMP installation and configuration are covered.

Building the Zenoss Server

Begin by selecting your hardware. Zenoss lacks specific hardware requirements, but it relies heavily MySQL, so you can use MySQL requirements as a rough guideline. I recommend using the fastest processor available, 1GB of memory, fast enough hard disks to provide acceptable MySQL performance and Gigabit Ethernet for the network. I ran several test configurations, and this configuration seemed adequate enough for a medium-size network (100+ nodes/devices). To keep configuration simple, all firewalls and SELinux instances were disabled in the test environment. If you use firewalls in your environment, open ports 161 (SNMP), 8080 (Zenoss Management Page) and 514 (if you integrate syslog with Zenoss).

Install CentOS 5.1 on the server using your own preferences. I used a bare install with no X Window System or desktop manager. Assign a static IP address and any other pertinent network information (DNS servers and so forth). After the OS install is complete, install the following packages using the yum command below:

yum install mysql mysql-server net-snmp net-snmp-utils gmp httpd

If the mysqld or the httpd service has not started after yum installs it, start it and set it to run for your configured runlevel. Next, download the latest Zenoss Core .rpm from Sourceforge.net (2.1.3 at the time of this writing), and install it using rpm from the command line. To start all the Zenoss-related dæmons after the .rpm has been installed, type the following at a command prompt:

service zenoss start

Launch a Web browser from any machine, and type the IP address of the Zenoss server using port 8080 (for example, http://192.168.142.6:8080). Log in to the site using the default account admin with a password of zenoss. This brings up the main dashboard. The dashboard is a compartmentalized view of the state of your managed devices. If you don't like the default display, you can arrange your dashboard any way you want using the various drop-down lists on the portlets (windows). I recommend setting the Production States portlet to display Production, so we can see our test systems after they are added.

Almost everything related to managed devices in Zenoss revolves around classes. With classes, you can create an infinite number of systems, processes or service classifications to monitor. To begin adding devices, we need to set our SNMP community strings at the top-level /Devices class. SNMP community strings are like passphrases used to authenticate traffic between devices. If one device wants to communicate with another, they must have matching community names/strings. In many deployments, administrators use the default community name of public (and/or private), which creates a security risk. I recommend changing these strings and making them into a short phrase. You can add numbers and characters to make the community name more complex to guess/crack, but I find phrases easier to remember.

Click on the Devices link on the navigation menu on the left, so that /Devices is listed near the top of the page. Click on the zProperties tab and scroll down. Enter an SNMP community string in the zSNMPCommunitiy field. For our test environment, I used the string whatsourclearanceclarence. You can use different strings with different subclasses of systems or individual systems, but by setting it at the /Devices class, it will be used for any subclasses unless it is overridden. You also could list multiple strings in the zSNMPCommunities under the /Devices class, which allows you to define multiple strings for the discovery process discussed later. Make sure your community string (zSNMPCommunity) is in this list.

Installing Net-SNMP on Linux Clients

Now, let's set up our Linux systems so they can talk to the Zenoss server. After installing and configuring the operating systems on our other Linux servers, install the Net-SNMP package on each using the following command on the Ubuntu server:

sudo apt-get install snmpd

And, on the Fedora server use:

yum install net-snmp

Once the Net-SNMP packages are installed, edit out any other lines in the Access Control sections at the beginning of the /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf, and add the following lines:

##      sec.name  source      community
com2sec local     localhost   whatsourclearanceclarence
com2sec mynetwork 192.168.142.0/24   whatsourclearanceclarence

##  group.name  sec.model  sec.name
group MyROGroup v1         local
group MyROGroup v1         mynetwork
group MyROGroup v2c        local
group MyROGroup v2c        mynetwork

##         incl/excl subtree  mask
view all   included  .1        80

##             context sec.model sec.level prefix  read   write  notif
access MyROGroup ""      any       noauth  exact    all    none   none

Do not edit out any lines beneath the last Access Control Sections. Please note that the above is only a mildly restrictive configuration. Consult the snmpd.conf file or the Net-SNMP documentation if you want to tighten access. On the Ubuntu server, you also may have to change the following line in the /etc/snmp/default file to allow SNMP to bind to anything other than the local loopback address:

SNMPDOPTS='-Lsd -Lf /dev/null -u snmp -I -smux -p /var/run/snmpd.pid'

Installing SNMP on Windows

On the Windows server, access the Add/Remove Programs utility from the Control Panel. Click on the Add/Remove Windows Components button on the left. Scroll down the list of Components, check off Management and Monitoring Tools, and click on the Details button. Check Simple Network Management Protocol in the list, and click OK to install. Close the Add/Remove window, and go into the Services console from Administrative Tools in the Control Panel. Find the SNMP service in the list, right-click on it, and click on Properties to bring up the service properties tabs. Click on the Traps tab, and type in the community name. In the list of Trap Destinations, add the IP address of the Zenoss server. Now, click on the Security tab, and check off the Send authentication trap box, enter the community name, and give it READ-ONLY rights. Click OK, and restart the service.

Return to the Zenoss management Web page. Click the Devices link to go into the subclass of /Devices/Servers/Windows, and on the zProperties tab, enter the name of a domain admin account and password in the zWinUser and zWinPassword fields. This account gives Zenoss access to the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) on your Windows systems. Make sure to click Save at the bottom of the page before navigating away.

Adding Devices into Zenoss

Now that our systems have SNMP, we can add them into Zenoss. Devices can be added individually or by scanning the network. Let's do both. To add our Ubuntu server into Zenoss, click on the Add Device link under the Management navigation section. Enter the IP address of the server and the community name. Under Device Class Path, set the selection to /Server/Linux. You could add a variety of other hardware, software and Zenoss information on this page before adding a system, but at a minimum, an IP address name and community name is required (Figure 1). Click the Add Device button, and the discovery process runs. When the results are displayed, click on the link to the new device to access it.

Figure 1. Adding a Device into Zenoss

To scan the network for devices, click the Networks link under Browse By section of the navigation menu. If your network is not in the list, add it using CIDR notation. Once added, check the box next to your network and use the drop-down arrow to click on the Select Discover Devices option. You will see a similar results page as the one from before. When complete, click on the links at the bottom of the results page to access the new devices. Any device found will be placed in the /Discovered class. Because we should have discovered the Fedora server and the Windows server, they should be moved to the /Devices/Servers/Linux and /Devices/Servers/Windows classes, respectively. This can be done from each server's Status tab by using the main drop-down list and selecting Manage→Change Class.

If all has gone well, so far we have a functional SNMP monitoring system that is able to monitor heartbeat/availability (Figure 2) and performance information (Figure 3) on our systems. You can customize other various Status and Performance Monitors to meet your needs, but here we will use the default localhost monitors.

Figure 2. The Zenoss Dashboard

Figure 3. Performance data is collected almost immediately after discovery.

Creating Users and Setting E-Mail Alerts

At this point, we can use the dashboard to monitor the managed devices, but we will be notified only if we visit the site. It would be much more helpful if we could receive alerts via e-mail. To set up e-mail alerting, we need to create a separate user account, as alerts do not work under the admin account. Click on the Setting link under the Management navigation section. Using the drop-down arrow on the menu, select Add User. Enter a user name and e-mail address when prompted. Click on the new user in the list to edit its properties. Enter a password for the new account, and assign a role of Manager. Click Save at the bottom of the page. Log out of Zenoss, and log back in with the new account. Bring the settings page back up, and enter your SMTP server information. After setting up SMTP, we need to create an Alerting Rule for our new user. Click on the Users tab, and click on the account just created in the list. From the resulting page, click on the Edit tab and enter the e-mail address to which you want alerts sent. Now, go to the Alerting Rules tab and create a new rule using the drop-down arrow. On the edit tab of the new Alerting Rule, change the Action to email, Enabled to True, and change the Severity formula to >= Warning (Figure 4). Click Save.

Figure 4. Creating an Alert Rule

The above rule sends alerts when any Production server experiences an event rated Warning or higher (Figure 5). Using a filter, you can create any number of rules and have them apply only to specific devices or groups of devices. If you want to limit your alerts by time to working hours, for example, use the Schedule tab on the Alerting Rule to define a window. If no schedule is specified (the default), the rule runs all the time. In our rule, only one user will be notified. You also can create groups of users from the Settings page, so that multiple people are alerted, or you could use a group e-mail address in your user properties.

Figure 5. Zenoss alerts are sent fresh to your mailbox.

Services and Processes

We can expand our view of the test systems by adding a process and a service for Zenoss to monitor. When we refer to a process in Zenoss, we mean an active program, usually a dæmon, running on a managed device. Zenoss uses regular expressions to monitor processes.

To monitor Postfix on the mail server, first, let's define it as a process. Navigate to the Processes page under the Classes section of the navigation menu. Use the drop-down arrow next to OS Processes, and click Add Process. Enter Postfix as the process ID. When you return to the previous page, click on the link to the new process. On the edit tab of the process, enter master in the Regex field. Click Save before navigating away. Go to the zProperties tab of the process, and make sure the zMonitor field is set to True. Click Save again. Navigate back to the mail server from the dashboard, and on the OS tab, use the topmost menu's drop-down arrow to select Add→Add OSProcess. After the process has been added, we will be alerted if the Postfix process degrades or fails. While still on the OS tab of the server, place a check mark next to the new Postifx process, and from the OS Processes drop-down menu, select Lock OSProcess. On the next set of options, select Lock from deletion. This protects the process from being overwritten if Zenoss remodels the server.

Services in Zenoss are defined by active network ports instead of running dæmons. There are a plethora of services built in to the software, and you can define your own if you want to. The built-in services are broken down into two categories: IPServices and WinServices. IPservices use any port from 1-65535 and include common network apps/protocols, such as SMTP (Port 25), DNS (53) and HTTP (80). WinServices are intended for specific use with Windows servers (Figure 6).

Figure 6. Zenoss comes with a plethora of predefined Windows services to monitor.

Adding a service is much simpler than adding a process, because there are so many predefined in Zenoss. To monitor the HTTP service on our Web server, navigate to the server from the dashboard. Use the main menu's drop-down arrow on the server's OS tab arrow, and select Add→Add IPService. Type HTTP in the Service Class Field. Notice that the field begins to prefill with matches as you type the letters. Select TCP as the protocol, and click OK. Click Save on the resulting page. As with the OSProcess procedure, return to the OS tab of the server and lock the new IPService. Zenoss is now monitoring HTTP availability on the server (Figure 7).

Figure 7. Monitoring HTTP as an IPService

Only the Beginning

There are a multitude of other features in Zenoss that space here prevents covering, including Network Maps (Figure 8), a Google Maps API for multilocation monitoring (Figure 9) and Zenpacks that provide additional monitoring and performance-capturing capabilities for common applications.

Figure 8. Zenoss automatically maps your network for you.

Figure 9. Multiple sites can be monitored geographically with the Google Maps API.

In the span of this article, we have deployed an enterprise-grade monitoring solution with relative ease. Although it's surprisingly easy to deploy, Zenoss also possesses a deep feature set. It easily rivals, if not surpasses, commercial competitors in the same product space. It is easy to manage, highly customizable and supported by a vibrant community.

Although you may not achieve the silent mind as long as you work with networks, with Zenoss, at least you will be able to sleep at night knowing you will hear things when they go down. Hopefully, they won't be trees.

Play with Windows Registry

A couple Tips of registry below only dedicated for Windows XP User.
Before you play with your Registry, it is better to do backup first.
1. Click Start > Run.
2. Type regedit and press Enter after Run Window emerge.
3. Inside Registry Editor, choose menu File > Export.
4. After Export Registry File showed up, insert file name to File Name part, ex backup-registry and so on.
5. Press Save button.

To Speed up Registry Update
Go to Start > Log Off > Log Off.

Change Wallpaper
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop
Double click at wallpaper and insert the desired path picture in Value Data.

Change Recycle Bin Name
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
Double click at option (Default value) give new desired name in Value Data.

Show Rename In Recycle Bin
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}/ShellFolder
Double click at Attributes > Edit Binary Value. In Value Data, change those value into 0000 50 01 00 20.

Hide Recycle Bin
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Desktop/NameSpace
Delete subkey {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}, then Restart computer to see the result.
To show it back, make again the digit number combination {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}.

Adding Shortcut Content Menu In Recycle Bin
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}/ShellFolder
Double click Attributes and change digit number in Value Data with the following:
0000 50 01 00 20 > Rename
0000 60 01 00 20 > Delete
0000 70 01 00 20 > Rename & Delete
0000 41 01 00 20 > Copy
0000 42 01 00 20 > Cut
0000 43 01 00 20 > Copy & Cut
0000 44 01 00 20 > Paste
0000 45 01 00 20 > Copy & Paste
0000 46 01 00 20 > Cut & Paste
0000 47 01 00 20 > Cut, Copy & Paste

Adding Shortcut Content Menu In Recycle Bin With Selection Menu
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}/Shell
Click Edit > New > Key give the desired name (ex: Go To Windows Explorer).
Under those new key, go to menu Edit > New > Key again make another new key called Command.
Double click option (Default), and in Value Data, fill with Windows Explorer path(C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.exe).

Restore The Missing Folder Documents In My Computer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/DocFolderPaths
Click Edit > New > String Value and give appropriate name with username which is used in Windows (Ex: W5A)
Double click at those value and insert location path where your Documents is (Ex: D:\Documents)

Removing File Stored from My Computer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/MyComputer/NameSpace/DelegateFolders
Delete subkey {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee} by pressing Del button.

Hide My Recent Documents
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
Click Edit > New > DWORD Value and give name NoRecentDocsMenu.
Then double click at those DWORD Value, and once again give value 1 to activated.

Hide Find Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
Click Edit > New > DWORD Value and give name NoFind.
Then double click at those DWORD Value and give value 1 to activated. Restart computer.

Hide Help And Support
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value - Menu Edit > New > DWORD Value, and give name NoSMHelp.
Then double click at NoSMHelp and fill with value 1 in Value Data. Restart computer.

Hide Run Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoRun. Double click and insert value 1 as Value Data.

Hide Run Menu From Start Menu (2)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Advanced
Find value called Start_ShowRun, double click and insert value 0 in Value Data.


Hide Log Off
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
Click Edit > New > Binary Value and give name NoLogOff.
Double click at NoLogOff and insert value 01 00 00 00 in Value Data.

Hide Turn Off Computer Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
Click Edit > New > DWORD Value and give name NoClose.
Double click NoClose and give value 1 in Value Data.

Cleartype At Logon Screen
HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Control Panel/Desktop
Double click FontSmoothingType and insert value 2 in Value Data.

Make Different Looks At Logon Screen
HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/ThemeManager
Double click ColorName and insert Metallic text in Value Data.

Show Administrator At Welcome Screen
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserLis t
Make a new DWORD Value and give name Administrator.
Double click Administrator and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Automatic Login
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Winlogon
Double click AltDefaultUserName and insert chosen username account.
Double click AutoAdminLogon and insert value 1 in Value Data.
Make a new DWORD Value ad give name DefaultPassword.
Double click DefaultPassword and insert chosen password account in Value Data.

Hide Printer Icon & Faxes from Start Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Advanced
Find value called Start_ShowPrinters and give value 0 in Value Data.

Hide Control Panel From Start Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Advanced
Find value called Start_ShowControlPanel and double click at those part.
Insert value 0 in Value Data.

Hide My Pictures From Start Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Advanced
Double click at Start_ShowMyPics and insert value 0 in Value Data.

Show Administrative Tools Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Advanced
Double click at StartMenuAdminTools and give value 1 in Value Data.

Minimize Start Menu Icon
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Advanced
Double click at Start_LargeMFUIcons and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Erase Username At Start Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
Choose Edit > New > DWORD Value and give name NoUserNameInStartMenu.
Double click NoUserNameInStartMenu and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Prevent Any Change from Start Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoChangeStartMenu.
Double click NoChangeStartMenu and insert alue 1 in Value Data.

Hide My Recent Documents
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Advanced
Double click Start_ShowRecentDocs and insert value 0 in Value Data.

Change Important Default Shortcut Name In Desktop
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/CLSID
Double click at default value for each subkey below:
My Network Places:
{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
My Computer:
{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
My Documents:
{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}
Recycle Bin:
{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
Default IE Icon:
{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}
Insert unique name as the substitute default name.

Hide Icon In Desktop
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Advanced
Double click at HideIcons and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Cleaning All Icon At Desktop
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoDesktop.
Double click at NoDesktop and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Make Desktop More Stable
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name DesktopProcess.
Doubl click DesktopProcess and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deleting Program List On Run Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/RunMRU
At the right window, you will see many software in a row (marked as alphabet a, b, c, d, etc).
To erase it, simply by choosing 1 of (or all) existed program name and press Del button
If it show confirmation window to deleting data, choose Yes.

Cleaning Recent Documents
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoRecentDocsHistory.
Double click at NoRecentDocsHistory and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Vanishing Info Tip At Folders Icon In Desktop
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Advanced
Double click FolderContentsInfoTip with value 0.

Lock Taskbar
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Advanced
Double click at TaskBarSizeMove and insert value 0 in Value Data.

Deleting Past Items Icons In Taskbar
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify
Erase IconStreams and PastIconsStream, then open Task Manager, at Tab Processes right click at explorer.exe and choose End Process.
Click File > New Task (Run) and re-type explorer and press OK.

Hide System Tray
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
If Explorer key not exist yet, make a new DWORD Value and give name NoTrayItemsDisplay.
Double click NoTrayItemsDisplay and insert value 1 in Value Data.
To return it back System Tray insert value 0 in Value Data.

Deactivated Right-Click In Desktop
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoViewContextMenu.
Double click NoViewContextMenu and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Change Delay Time When Open up Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop
Double click at MenuShowDelay and change milisecond value from 400 into different one. The More its small the more its faster.

Arrange Icon Size In Desktop And Start Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop/WindowMetrics
Doubl click Shell Icon Size and change value 32 into different one, ex 10.

Change Windows Color
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Colors
Double click Window and insert RGB combination color (Use Adobe PhotoShop to define appropriate combination color).

Change Text Color On Windows
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Colors
Double click WindowText and insert RGB combination color

Vanishing Screen Saver Tab
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoDispScrSavPage.
Double click NoDispScrSavPage and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Change Screen Saver By Registry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop
Double click SCRNSAVE.EXE then insert desired Screen Saver file location path.
Ex: C:\WINDOWS\ScreenSaver.scr

Deactivated Default Screen Saver
HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Control Panel/Desktop
Double click ScreenSaveActive and insert value 0 in Value Data.
To return it back insert value 1 in Value Data.

Vanishing Small Arrow Mark On Shortcut Icon
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Inkfile
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/piffile
Change name IsShortcut into IsShortcuts.

Change Wallpaper Style
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop
Double click at WallpaperStyle and insert value as the following in Value Data:
1 > Center
2 > Stretch
3 > Tile

Deactivated Low Disk Space Warning
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoLowDiskSpaceChecks.
Doubl click NoLowDiskSpaceChecks and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Properties Menu My Computer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoPropertiesMyComputer.
Double click NoPropertiesMyComputer and insert value 1 in Value Data.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoPropertiesMyComputer.
Double click NoPropertiesMyComputer and insert value 1 in Value Data.
If Explorer key not existed yet, make a one by clicking menu Edit > New > Key and give name Explorer.

Change CoolSwitch Size
(Try press Alt+Tab, that is what it called CoolSwitch)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop
HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Control Panel/Desktop
Click CoolSwitchColumns and set how far this CoolSwitch will displayed by inserting desired value in Value Data.
Then click CoolSwitchRows and do the same thing.

Deactivated CoolSwitch Function
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop
HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Control Panel/Desktop
Doubl click at CoolSwitch and insert value 0.

Deactivated Animation On Windows XP
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop/WindowMetrics
Double click at MinAnimate and insert value 1 to deactivated, and 0 to re-Activated.

Change Left Click Button into Right Click Button In Mouse
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Mouse
Doubl click SwapMouseButtons and give value 1 in Value Data.

Change Scroll Lines On Scroll Mouse
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop
Double click at WheelScrollLines insert desired value (accordance with desired scroll line) in Value Data.

Hide System Properties In Control Panel
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/don't load
make a new String Value and give name sysdm.cpl.
Double click sysdm.cpl and type Yes at Value Data.

Deactivated Display Properties
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies
On subkey Policies, make a new key with Edit > New > Key and give name System.
Then in subkey System, make a new DWORD Value and give name NoDispCPL.
Double click NoDispCPL ad insert value 1 in Value Data.

Arrange Repeat Speed Rate Keyboard
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Keyboard
Double click KeyboardSpeed and insert desired value. The more higher value, the more faster the Repeat Rate.

Underline Text In Notepad
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Notepad
Double click lfUnderline and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Word Wrap Mode In Notepad
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Notepad
Double click fWrap and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Status Bar In Notepad
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Notepad
Double click StatusBar and insert value 1 in Value Data.

DVD In Windows Media Player
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/MediaPlayer/Player/Settings
Choose Edit > New > String Value and give name DVDUI.
Double click DVDUI and insert text Yes in Value Data.

Adding Windows Media Player Identity
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Policies/Microsoft
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Policies/Microsoft/Windows
Click Edit > New > Key and give name WindowsMediaPlayer.
Click Edit > New > String Value and give name TitleBar.
Double click TitleBar and insert desired text in Value Data.

Change Stop Button Into Play Button In Windows Media Player
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/MediaPlayer/Objects/StopButton
Double click onclick and insert text player.controls.play() in Value Data.

Choose Default CD Turning Audio
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/AudioCD/Shell/Play/Command
Double click (Default) and insert path software that you want it as CD Audio turning by default.
Ex: C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe

Restoring Access To CD-ROM
After uninstalling a burning CD program, there is a situation where CD-ROM cannot be access anymore, the solution:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Delete subkey LowerFilters and UpperFilters by pressing Del button.

Minimize Thumbnail Size For Windows Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer
Choose Edit > New > Binary Value and give name ThumbnailSize.
Double click ThumbnailSize and insert value 20 in Value Data.

Make Private Shortcut Menu In Windows Explorer
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Drive/Shell
Choose Edit > New > Key and give name Winamp as for example.
Double click option (Default) at right side from registry editor and insert text Winamp.
Click subkey Winamp and choose Edit > New > Key and give name Command.
Double click option (Default) and insert path C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe in Value Data.


Encryption By Context Menu
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Advanced
Make a new DWORD Value and give name EncryptionContextMenu.
Double click EncryptionContextMenu and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Change Icon On Drives
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer
If it's not existed yet, choose Edit > New > Key and give name accordance with desired drive [ex: C for drive C:]
At those value, make a new Key again and give name DefaultIcon.
Double click option (Default) anmd insert location path where those icon exist (ex:D:\Documents\CDrive Icon.ico)

Hide A Drive
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
Choose Edit > New > DWORD Value and give name NoDrives.
Double click NoDrives and determine which drive that you want to vanish in Value Data.
Ex: If you wish to vanishing drive E:, insert value 16 in Value Data.
The combination value in Value Data are the following:
A: > 1
B: > 2
C: > 4
D: > 8
E: > 16
F: > 32
G: > 64
H: > 128
I: > 256
J: > 512
K: > 1024
L: > 2048
M: > 4096
All: > 67108863

Make Tip Of The Day Windows Explorer
To activated open Windows Explorer then choose View > Explorer Bar > Tip of the Day.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Tips
In right side window there will be many tips in a row that stored in value 0 - 49.
2 thing you can do is change the tips by double click each value with desired text.
Second is adding new tips started with row after value 49 (ex 50 and so on.).
Choose Edit > New > String Value and give name with digit number form that continues from last digit number in tips (ex 50 and so on.).
Double click at those new value and fill with deisre text in Value Data.

Hide Advanced Settings In Folder Options Windows Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer
Under Explorer key there'll be subkey called Advanced. Right click and choose Rename. Change name Advanced into Advancedx.

Cheat Code Playing Game Hearts
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Applets
Click Edit > New > Key and give name Hearts.
Click Edit > New > String Value and give name ZB and fill with value 42 in Value Data.
Open game Hearts in Start Menu > All Programs > Games. After inserting player name, press the following combination:
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+F12 and all card will be opened.

Cleaning Registry Trash
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Application
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE
Choose one of subkey which is software name that you want to deleted, then press Del button.

Cleaning Uninstall Trash
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Uninstall
Delete subkey that have the same name with the uninstalled software.

Deleting Unnecessary Program List From Add/Remove Programs
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Uninstall
Delete subkey that has unnecessary program by pressing Del button.

Running Program When StartUp
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run
Choose Edit > New > String Value with Winamp for example.
Double click at those value and insert path where those program installed (C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe).

Deleting StartUp Items In MSCONFIG
Click Start > Run > type msconfig, then click on startup tab, uncheck the check box in program deleted from startup list.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run
Delete subkey that has unwanted program by pressing Del button.

Speed Up Shutdown Windows XP Process
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control
Double click WaitToKillServiceTimeout and change the value into something more lower than 2000.

Change AM And PM Into Morning and Afternoon
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/International
Double click s1159 and change text AM with MORNING.
Double click s2359 and change text PM with AFTERNOON.

Deactivated AutoRun Function
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer
Double click NoDriveTypeAutoRun and insert value 95 in Value Data.

Turn Off Automatically Not Responding Program
HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Control Panel/Desktop
Double click AutoEndTasks and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Displaying My Computer Hidden Option
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Internet Settings/Zones/0
Double click Flags then change into Decimal and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Function New Window In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Policies/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Restrictions
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoOpeninNewWnd.
Double click NoOpeninNewWnd and insert 1 in Value Data.

Change Toolbar Background Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Toolbar
Choose Edit > New > String Value and give name BackBitmap.
Double click BackBitmap and fill with location path where bitmap is (.bmp) that will turn into toolbar background in Value Data. Ex: C:\WINDOWS\Wallpaper.bmp

Change Internet Explorer Version
To define what version your Internet Explorer have: Help > About Internet Explorer on Internet Explorer browser.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Internet Explorer
Double click Version and insert desired value in Value Data.

To checking Internet Explorer ProductID
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Registration
Look for ProductID on key ProductId, at those value there'll stated what Internet Explorer ProductID you using it.

Full Screen Mode In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main
Double click FullScreen and insert text Yes in Value Data.

Change Internet Explorer Title
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main
Choose Edit > New > String Value and give name Window Title.
Double click Window Title and insert desired text in Value Data.

Cleaning URL List On Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/TypedURLs
Delete value url1, url2 and so on by pressing Del button.

Hiding Go Button On Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main
Choose Edit > New > String Value and give name ShowGoButton.
Double click ShowGoButton and insert value 0 in Value Data.

Change Internet Explorer Icon Name
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}
Double click at value (Default) at right side, insert desired text in Value Data.

Adding Domain .Gov On Searching Website
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main/UrlTemplate
Choose Edit > New > String Value and give name with value which is constanly continues from existed value.
Double click at those value and type %s.gov in Value Data.

Tweaking Memory On Windows XP
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session Manager/Memory Management
Double click at DisablePagingExecutive and insert value 1 in Value Data.
If its activated, Windows will not doing paging file into hard drive. The System Operation and program will become more responsive. Suggested for computer that has bigger memory more than 128MB.
Double click at LargeSystemCache and insert value 1 in Value Data.
If its activated, the system will alocating all memory (except 4 MB for disk caching) for file caching. Computer will do caching kernel XP inside memory so that Windows XP can run more faster.

Unload .dll For Speed Up Memory Access
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer
Choose Edit > New > Key and give name AlwaysUnloadDLL.
On Default Value Option insert value 1.

Deleting Pagefile When Shut Down
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management
Double click ClearPageFileAtShutdown and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Moving Pagefile
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session Manager/Memory Management
Double click PagingFiles then change path to new desired location.
Ex: D:\pagefile.sys 1024 1024

Restoring Search Function Into Old Display
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/CabinetState
Choose Edit > New > String Value and give name UseSearchAsst.
Double click UseSearchAsst and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Hiding Device Manager
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies
Choose Edit > New > Key and give name System.
In subkey System make a new DWORD Value and give name NoDevMgrPage.
Double click NoDevMgrPage ad insert value 1 in Value Data.

Optimized Hard Drive While Computer On Idle Condition
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\OptimalLayout
Make a new DWORD Value and give name EnableAutoLayout.
Double click EnableAutoLayout and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deleting Run As Option In Context Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value baru and give name HideRunAsVerb.
Double click HideRunAsVerb and insert value 0 in Value Data.

Deactivated Windows XP Tour
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Applets\Tour
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Applets\Tour
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet and give name RunCount.
Double click RunCount and insert value 0 in Value Data.

Store Notepad Configuration Changes
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad
Make each new DWORD Value and give value fSavePageSettings and fSaveWindowPositions.
Double click at fSavePageSettings and fSaveWindowPositions and insert value 1 on each Value Data.

Specific Information In Device Manager
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Environment
Make a new String Value or change existed String Value called DEVMGR_SHOW_DETAILS.
Double click DEVMGR_SHOW_DETAILS and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Show All Hidden Devices In Device Manager
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Environment
Make a new String Value and give name DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES.
Double click DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Task Manager
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\System
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\System
Make a new DWORD Value and give name DisableTaskMgr.
Double click DisableTaskMgr and insert 1 in Value Data.

Using Smooth Scrolling On Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
If it's not existed yet, make a new DWORD Value and give name SmoothScroll.
Double click SmoothScroll and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Image Preview Using Windows Picture & Fax Viewer
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\She llEx\ContextMenuHandlers\ShellImagePreview
Double click at Default value and clear the value (delete {e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066})

Change Thumbnail Setting
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer
If it's not existed yet, make a new DWORD Value and give name ThumbnailSize and ThumbnailQuality.
Double click ThumbnailSize and insert desired value accordance with size in pixel.
Double click ThumbnailQuality and insert desired value accordance with the presentation quality (50% - 100%).

Deactivated Cache On Thumbnail
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Make a new DWORD Value and give name DisableThumbnailCache.
Double click DisableThumbnailCache and insert 1 in Value Data.

Change Color On Encrypted File
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer
Make a new Binary Value and give name AltEncryptionColor.
Double click AltEncryptionColor and insert desired RGB Color.
Hints: RR GG BB 00 (Default 00 80 40 00)

Change Color On Compression File And Folder
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer
Make a new Binary Value if it's not already yet and give name AltColor.
Double click at AltColor and insert desired RGB Color.
Hints: RR GG BB 00 (Default 00 00 ff 00)
Note: In order to activated this feature in Folder Options give check mark at Show encrypted or compressed NTFS in color.

Alternative Color At Compression File
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Make a new DWORD Value and give name ShowCompColor.
Double click ShowCompColor and insert 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Web Content In Explorer And Desktop
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name ClassicShell.
Double click ClassicShell and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Removing My Computer From Desktop And Start Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\NonEnum
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\NonEnum
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet and give name {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}.
Double click {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} and insert 1 in Value Data.

Choose The First Desktop Icon
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}
Make a new DWORD Value and give name SortOrderIndex.
Double click SortOrderIndex and insert the following value in Value Data as selection:
48 > My Documents
54 > My Computer

Show Windows Version In Desktop
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet and give name PaintDesktopVersion.
Double click PaintDesktopVersion and insert 1 in Value Data.

Show Descriptions Pop-up In Explorer And Dekstop Item
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet and give value ShowInfoTip.
Double click ShowInfoTip and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Desktop Cleanup Wizard
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Desktop\CleanupWiz
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoRun.
Double click NoRun and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Hiding Internet Explorer Icon
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give value NoInternetIcon.
Double click NoInternetIcon and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Removing My Documents From Desktop
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\ShellFolder
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\ShellFolder
Change value on Attributes key into 0xf0500174. Press F5 to see the result.

Deleting Directly Without Using Recycle Bin
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoRecycleFiles.
Doubl click NoRecycleFiles and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Recycle Bin
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\BitBucket
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NukeOnDelete.
Double click NukeOnDelete and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Activated Advanced File System And Sharing Security
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Lsa
Make a new DWORD Value and give name ForceGuest.
Double click ForceGuest and insert 0 in Value Data.

Deactivated NTFS Last Access Time Stamp
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\FileSystem
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet and give name NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate.
Double click NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated 8.3 Name Creation (NTFS)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\FileSystem
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation.
Double click NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Activated 48-bit Support LBA For Large Harddrive Capacity
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Atapi\Parameters
Make a new DWORD Value and give name EnableBigLba.
Double click EnableBigLba and insert value 1 in Value Data.
Note: Only for Windows XP user before SP1.

Deactivated CD Burning Function
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoCDBurning.
Double click NoCDBurning and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Change Logon Screen
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Make a new DWORD Value and give name LogonType.
Double click LogonType and insert value as the following at Value Data:
0 > Classic Mode
1 > Welcome Screen

Activated Fast User Switching
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Make a new DWORD Value and give name AllowMultipleTSSessions.
Double click AllowMultipleTSSessions and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Activated Power-off Monitor In Logon Screen
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
Double click PowerOffActive and ScreenSaveActive and insert value 1 at each Value Data.
Double click SCRNSAVE.EXE insert text (None) to Value Data.
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\PowerCfg
Double click CurrentPowerPolicy and insert value 0 in Value Data.

Deactivated Passport Balloon Reminder
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MessengerServ ice
Make a new Binary Value and give name PassportBalloon.
Double click PassportBalloon and insert 0a 00 00 00 to Value Data.

Change Wallpaper In Logon Screen
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
Change value key Wallpaper and insert desired bitmap location file path (.bmp). (ex: D:/Documents/Wallpaper.bmp)

Limitation of Automatic Login Amount
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Make a new DWORD Value and give name AutoLogonCount.
Klik ganda AutoLogonCount and insert desired value accordance with desired Limited login amount.

Dialog Box Before Logon
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Doubl click LegalNoticeCaption and insert desired text title (ex: WARNING).
Double click LegalNoticeText and insert desired text (ex: Do Not Attempt to Logon to this system unless you are an authorized user).

Customize Windows Logon And Security Dialog Title
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Make a new String Value and give name Welcome.
Double click Welcome and insert desired text.

Pushing Automatic Login Used
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Make a new String Value and give name ForceAutoLogon.
Double click ForceAutoLogon and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Activated Automatic Login By Using Shift Button
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Make a new String Value and give name IgnoreShiftOverride.
Double click IgnoreShiftOverride and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Hiding Usernames From Logon Screen
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserLis t
Make a new DWORD Value and give it name accordance with desired username.
Double click at those value and insert value 0 in Value Data.

Activated Start Menu Scrolling
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Make a new String Value and give name StartMenuScrollPrograms.
Double click StartMenuScrollPrograms and insert Yes input in Value Data.

Removing Undock Computer Option From Start Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoStartMenuEjectPC.
Double click NoStartMenuEjectPC and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Sorting New Program In Start Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet and give name Start_NotifyNewApps.
Double click Start_NotifyNewApps and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Start Menu Folders Modification
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Make a few DWORD Value if it's not existed yet and give name Start_ShowControlPanel, Start_ShowMyComputer, Start_ShowMyDocs, Start_ShowMyMusic, Start_ShowMyPics and Start_ShowNetConn
Start_ShowControlPanel - Control Panel
Start_ShowMyComputer - My Computer
Start_ShowMyDocs - My Documents
Start_ShowMyMusic - My Music
Start_ShowMyPics - My Pictures
Start_ShowNetConn - Network Connections
Double click at each key and give selection value as the following:
0 = Hidden
1 = Open When Clicked
2 = Expand Contents

Removing Program Access And Defaults From Start Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoSMConfigurePrograms.
Double click NoSMConfigurePrograms and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Removing Disconnect Item Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoDisconnect.
Double click NoDisconnect and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Removing Step In Run Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\RunMRU
Delete a few desired key by pressing Del button.

Activated Favorites In Start Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Make a new DWORD Value and give name StartMenuFavorites.
Double click StartMenuFavorites and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Removing Pinned Programs From Start Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoStartMenuPinnedList.
Double click NoStartMenuPinnedList and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Removing All Programs From Start Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoStartMenuMorePrograms.
Double click NoStartMenuMorePrograms and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Determine Respond Time For Not Responding Application
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
Make a new String Value if it's not existed yet and give name HungAppTimeout.
Double click HungAppTimeout and insert time input on milliseconds (1000 = 1 seconds).

Turn Off Not Responding Application Automatically
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
Double click AutoEndTasks and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Activated Shutdown Event Tracker
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Reliability
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name ShutdownReasonUI.
Double click ShutdownReasonUI and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Save Function On Desktop Configuration & Setting
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoSaveSettings.
Double click NoSaveSettings and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Creation Of LastKnownGood Configuration Function
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Make a new String Value if it's not existed yet, and give name ReportBootOk.
Double click ReportBootOk and insert value 0 in Value Data.

Automatic Restart On BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\CrashControl
Change value in AutoReboot and insert value 1 at Value Data.

Activated Automatic Daylight Savings Adjustment
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\TimeZoneInformation
Make a new DWORD Value and give name DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet.
Double click DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Update Device Driver Wizard
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name NoDevMgrUpdate.
Double click NoDevMgrUpdate and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Hiding Computer Management Option (Right Click at My Computer menu Manage)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoManageMyComputerVerb.
Double click NoManageMyComputerVerb and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Automatic Windows Update Configuration
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\WindowsUpdate\AU
Make a few DWORD Value with the following name:
NoAutoUpdate
0 - Enable Automatic Updates (Default)
1 - Disable Automatic Updates
AUOptions
2 - Notify for download and notify for install
3 - Auto download and notify for install
4 - Auto download and schedule the install
ScheduledInstallTime
0 to 23 - Install time of day in 24-hour format

Activated Windows Key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Keyboard Layout
Make a new Binary Value and give name Scancode Map.
Double click Scancode Map and insert input as the following at Value Data:
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 5B E0 00 00 5C E0 00 00 00 00

Change Power Management Configuration
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\PowerCfg
Make a new String Value if it's not existed yet, and give name CurrentPowerPolicy.
Doubl click CurrentPowerPolicy and insert value input as the following at Value Data:
0 - Home/Office Desktop
1 - Portable/Laptop Computer
2 - Monitor On Presentations
3 - Network Computer (No Wake-On-LAN)
4 - Optimized For High Performance
5 - Optimized For Power Saving

Registry Size Limit Configuration
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l
Make a new DWORD Value and give name RegistrySizeLimit.
Double click RegistrySizeLimit and insert input 0xffffffff in Value Data.

Determine Displayed Error Popup Messages
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Windows
Double click ErrorMode and insert desired value input as the following at Value Data:
0 - All Errors Appear In Popups (Default)
1 - System Errors Disabled, Application Errors Still Using Popups
2 - Neither System Or Application Errors Use Popups

Selection For Running 16-bit Program At VDM (Virtual DOS Machine)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name MemCheckBoxInRunDlg.
Double click MemCheckBoxInRunDlg and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Used Priority Virtual Machine Selection
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\WOW
Double click DefaultSeparateVDM and insert value Yes or No in Value Data.

Change Paged Size And Non Paged Pool Memory
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management
Make a few new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give each name PagedPoolSize and NonPagedPoolSize.
Double click PagedPoolSize and NonPagedPoolSize and insert desired value input (in bytes) at Value Data.

Automatic Administrative Logon At Recovery Console
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Setup\RecoveryConsole
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name SecurityLevel.
Double click SecurityLevel and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Full Access Through Floopy Disk At Recovery Console
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Setup\RecoveryConsole
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name SetCommand.
Double click SetCommand and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Change NumLock Status
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard
Double click InitialKeyboardIndicators and insert value input as the following at Value Data:
0 - NumLock is turned off after logon
1 - NumLock is turned on after logon

Activated Remote Assistance
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Terminal Server
Make a few DWORD Value and give each name AllowTSConnections, fDenyTSConnections, and fAllowToGetHelp.
Double click at each value and insert value input as the following in Value Data:
AllowTSConnections > 1
fDenyTSConnections > 0
fAllowToGetHelp > 1

Deactivated Warning In Startup
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoPopUpsOnBoot.
Double click NoPopUpsOnBoot and insert value 1 in Value Data.
Make a new DWORD Value again and give name Error Mode.
Double click Error Mode and insert value input as the following:
0 = No Error Suppression
1 = Suppress System Errors
2 = Suppress All Errors

Change Icon Cache Size
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer
Make a new String Value and give name Max Cached Icons.
Double click Max Cached Icons and insert value 2000 (100 - 4096 = in bytes) at Value Data.

Windows Error Reporting Configuration
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PCHealth\Err orReporting
Make a few DWORD Value and give value:
DoReport - Enable error reporting
ShowUI - Show user interface
IncludeKernelFaults - Include kernel errors in the report
IncludeMicrosoftApps - Include Microsoft applications in the report
IncludeWindowsApps - Include Windows components in the report
Double click each value and insert value 1 (enable) or 0 (disable) in Value Data.

Stepping Mode On Windows Update Process
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup
Make a new String Value and give name SteppingMode.
Double click SteppingMode and insert Y in Value Data.

Change Active Desktop Background On Safe Mode
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\General
Double click Wallpaper and insert desired wallpaper location path in Value Data.

Deactivated Properties Menu On Recycle Bin
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoPropertiesRecycleBin.
Double click NoPropertiesRecycleBin and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Restore Windows Folder Function On Startup
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name PersistBrowsers.
Double click PersistBrowsers and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Removing Shared Documents From My Computer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoSharedDocuments.
Double click NoSharedDocuments and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Speed Up Access On .AVI File
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}
Change key name {87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E} and placed minus sign ( - ) in the front.
ex: -{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}

Adding Selection Copy To Menu And Move To Folder On Context Menu
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\Con textMenuHandlers
To make subkey choose menu Edit > New > Key.
Make a new subkey and give name Copy To then double click (Default value) and input {C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13} in Value Data.
Make a new subkey and give name Move To then double click (Default value) and input {C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13} in Value Data.


Adding Option Send To On Context Menu
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\Con textMenuHandlers
To make subkey choose menu Edit > New > Key.
Make a new subkey and give name Send To then double click (Default value) and input {7BA4C740-9E81-11CF-99D3-00AA004AE837} in Value Data.

Show Hidden Folders And Files
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Double click Hidden and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Show Hidden File Operating System
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Make a new DWORD Value and give name ShowSuperHidden.
Double click ShowSuperHidden and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Change Program And Common Files Directory
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion
Double click ProgramFilesDir and CommonFilesDir and insert new desired location path in Value Data.

Launch Folder Window At Different Process
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name SeparateProcess.
Double click SeparateProcess and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Automatically Expand Folders In Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name FriendlyTree.
Double click FriendlyTree and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Make Your Own Tips When 1st Time Login To Windows
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\Tips
Make a new or few String Value depended on continues from current tips (ex 50 and so on) and input tips with desired text.

Change Instalation File Location Windows
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Setup
Double click SourcePath and insert new desired location path.

Using Windows Update Without Doing Registration
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
Make a new String Value if it's not existed yet, and give name RegDone.
Double click RegDone and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Activated Reserved QOS Bandwidth
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\Psched
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name NonBestEffortLimit.
Double click NonBestEffortLimit and insert value 0 (hexadecimal) in Value Data.

Removing Hand Icon At Shared Resources
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Network\SharingHandler
Double click (Default value) and erase the value in Value Data.
To turn back icon, insert ntshrui.dll at Value Data.

Activated Network Adapter Onboard Processor
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters
Make a new DWORD Value and give name DisableTaskOffload.
Double click DisableTaskOffload and insert value 0 in Value Data.

Pushing Active Desktop Using
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name ForceActiveDesktopOn.
Double click ForceActiveDesktopOn and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Restriction On Active Desktop
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop
Make a new or few DWORD Value with the following name:
NoChangingWallpaper - Disable the ability to change wallpapers.
NoComponents - Disable components.
NoAddingComponents - Disable the ability to add components.
NoDeletingComponents - Disable the ability to delete components.
NoEditingComponents - Disable the ability to edit components.
NoCloseDragDropBands - Prevents adding, dragging, dropping and closing the Taskbar's toolbars.
NoMovingBands - retrict adjustments to desktop toolbars
NoHTMLWallPaper - only allow bitmaps (BMP) as wallpaper
and insert value 1 for each Value Data.

Prohibit Setting Active Desktop Changes
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoActiveDesktopChanges.
Double click NoActiveDesktopChanges and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Active Desktop Selection From Setting Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoSetActiveDesktop.
Double click NoSetActiveDesktop and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Active Desktop
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoActiveDesktop.
Double click NoActiveDesktop and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Restriction of Desktop Theme Controls
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\System
Make a new or few DWORD Value with the following name:
NoVisualStyleChoice - Disable the "Windows and buttons" style control
NoColorChoice - Disable the "Color scheme" control
NoSizeChoice - Disable the "Font size" control
To activated those restriction, insert value 1 on each Value Data.
To activated default style, make a new String Value and give name SetVisualStyle.
Double click SetVisualStyle and insert desired location file path .msstyles.

Hiding Theme Configuration Tab
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name NoThemesTab.
Double click NoThemesTab and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Hiding Navigation Keyboard Configuration
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoChangeKeyboardNavigationIndicators.
Double click NoChangeKeyboardNavigationIndicators and insert value 1 in Value Data.
Restriction of Animation Configuration Changes
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, ad give name NoChangeAnimation.
Double click NoChangeAnimation and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Hiding Configuration Display Tab
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoDispSettingsPage.
Double click NoDispSettingsPage and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Hiding Background Display Tab
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoDispBackgroundPage.
Double click NoDispBackgroundPage and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Hiding Display Appearance
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoDispAppearancePage.
Double click NoDispAppearancePage and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Increment Printer Function
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoAddPrinter.
Double click NoAddPrinter and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Erasing Printer Function
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoDeletePrinter.
Double click NoDeletePrinter and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Restriction of Security In Desktop
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
Make a new DWORD Value and give name SecureDesktop.
Double click SecureDesktop and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Removing Security Tab
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoSecurityTab.
Double click NoSecurityTab and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Removing Hardware Tab
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoHardwareTab.
Double click NoHardwareTab and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated New Item Menu
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D969A300-E7FF-11d0-A93B-00A0C90F2719}
Change key name {D969A300-E7FF-11d0-A93B-00A0C90F2719} and add minus sign ( - ) in the front.
Ex: -{D969A300-E7FF-11d0-A93B-00A0C90F2719}

Deactivated Customization Toolbar Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoToolbarCustomize.
Double click NoToolbarCustomize and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Removing Selection For Change Or Hiding Toolbar
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoBandCustomize.
Double click NoBandCustomize and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Removing File Menu From Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoFileMenu.
Double click NoFileMenu and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Hiding Network Neighborhood Icon
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value ad give name NoNetHood.
Double click NoNetHood and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Folder Options Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give value NoFolderOptions.
Double click NoFolderOptions and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Removing Function For Modification File
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoFileAssociate.
Double click NoFileAssociate and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Defencing TCP/IP Stack From Denial Of Service Attack
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters
Make a few DWORD Value if it's not existed yet and give name along with each value as the following:
EnableDeadGWDetect = 0
EnableICMPRedirect = 0
EnablePMTUDiscovery = 0
KeepAliveTime = 300,000
NoNameReleaseOnDemand = 1
PerformRouterDiscovery = 0
SynAttackProtect = 2

Deactivated DHCP Router Discovery
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters
Make a new DWORD Value and give name PerformRouterDiscovery.
Double click PerformRouterDiscovery and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Nonactivated Web Printing
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows NT\Printers
Make a new DWORD Value and give name DisableWebPrinting.
Double click DisableWebPrinting and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Nonactivated Recent Shares Function At Network Places
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoRecentDocsNetHood.
Double click NoRecentDocsNetHood and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Closing Accsess To Anonymous User
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\LSA
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name RestrictAnonymous.
Double click RestrictAnonymous and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Hiding Computer From Browser List
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\LanmanServer\Parameters
Make a new DWORD Value and give name Hidden.
Double click Hidden and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Hiding All Network In Network Neighborhood
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoEntireNetwork.
Double click NoEntireNetwork and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Hiding Workgrup Content From Network Neighborhood
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoWorkgroupContents.
Double click NoWorkgroupContents and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Hiding Selection Map And Disconnect Network Drive
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoNetConnectDisconnect.
Double click NoNetConnectDisconnect and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Hiding Share Passwords Function With Asterisk Character
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name HideSharePwds.
Double click HideSharePwds and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Hiding Closer Computer In A Network
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoComputersNearMe.
Double click NoComputersNearMe and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Automatic Hidden Shares
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\LanmanServer\Parameters
Make a few DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give each name AutoShareServer and AutoShareWks.
Double click AutoShareServer and AutoShareWks and insert value 0 on each Value Data.

Change Warning Password Used Period Limit Time
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
make a new DWORD Value and give name PasswordExpiryWarning.
Double click PasswordExpiryWarning and insert desired amount of day (Default = 14) in Value Data.

Blockade SPAM In Messenger Service
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Messenger
Double click Start and insert value 4 in Value Data.

Deactivated Recent Files Function In Media Player
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\P references
Make a new Binary Value if it's not existed yet, and give name AddToMRU.
Double click AddToMRU and insert value 00 in Value Data.

Cleaning Temporary Internet Files When Exit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet Settings\Cache
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Internet Settings\Cache
Make a new DWORD Value and give name Persistent.
Double click Persistent and insert value 0 in Value Data.

Deactivated User Tracking Function
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoInstrumentation.
Double click NoInstrumentation and insert value 1 in Value Data.
Removing Toolbar From Taskbar
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoToolbarsOnTaskbar.
Double click NoToolbarsOnTaskbar and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Restriction On Using Logoff Button Selection In Start Menu
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name StartMenuLogoff.
Double click StartMenuLogoff ad insert value 1 in Value Data.

Secure Access In Removable Drives
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Make a new String Value and give name AllocateDASD.
Double click AllocateDASD and insert desired input as the following in Value Data:
0 - Administrators only
1 - Administrators and power users
2 - Administrators and the interactive user

Change Default Administrator Owner
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Lsa
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoDefaultAdminOwner.
Double click NoDefaultAdminOwner and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Configuration of Security Windows Script Signature
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Script Host\Settings
Make a new DWORD Value and give name TrustPolicy.
Double click TrustPolicy and insert the following input in Value Data:
0 = All
1 = Prompt
2 = Only Trusted

Equipment Conversion IEEE 1394 Into Dynamic Disk Drive
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Dmadmin\Parameters
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name EnableDynamicConversionFor1394.
Double click EnableDynamicConversionFor1394 and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Activated Mode UDMA66 Function In Chipset Intel
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000
Make a new DWORD Value and give name EnableUDMA66.
Double click EnableUDMA66 and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Activated Warning Function On Low Disk Space
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\LanmanServer\Parameters
Make a new DWORD Value and give name DiskSpaceThreshold.
Double click DiskSpaceThreshold and insert input in presentation way (0 - 99 - default 10) in Value Data.

Change Double Click Sensitivity On Mouse
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse
Make 2 String Value and set each name DoubleClickHeight and DoubleClickWidth.
Double click each value and insert input in pixel form from an area selected double click in mouse (ex: each 4 at every value).

Prevent Double Click Accidentally
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Make a new String Value if it's not existed yet and give name UseDoubleClickTimer.
Double click UseDoubleClickTimer and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Change Detection Wheel Mouse Function
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\i8042prt\Parameters
Make a new DWORD Value and give name EnableWheelDetection.
Double click EnableWheelDetection and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Change Keyboard Buffer Size
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Kbdclass\Parameters
Double click KeyboardDataQueueSize and insert input in desired buffer form size (default 64 hex = 100 decimal) in Value Data.

Change Mouse Buffer Size
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Mouclass\Parameters
Double click MouseDataQueueSize and insert input in desiredbuffer form size (default 64 hex = 100 decimal) in Value Data.

Arrange Snap To Function On Mouse
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse
Make a new String Value if it's not existed yet, and give ame SnapToDefaultButton.
Double click SnapToDefaultButton and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Show Trail On Mouse Pointer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse
Make a new String Value if it's not existed yet, and give name MouseTrails.
Double click MouseTrails and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Change Printer Spooler Priority
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Print
Make a new DWORD Value and give name SpoolerPriority.
Double click SpoolerPriority and insert few desired input as the following in Value Data:
0 = Normal Priority
1 = High Priority
0xFFFFFFFF = Idle Priority

Deactivated Notification Print Job At Event Viewer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Print\Providers
Double click EventLog and insert value 0 in Value Data.

Determine Scheduler Priority
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Print
Double click SchedulerThreadPriority and insert desired input as the following in Value Data:
0 = Normal
1 = Above Normal
ffffffff = Less Than Normal

Beep Function In Printer Errors
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Print
Double click BeepEnabled and insert value 1 in Value Data.


Activated Message Notification Print Job
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Print\Providers
Double click NetPopup and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Determine Message Purpose Display Printer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Print\Providers
Double click NetPopupToComputer and insert desired input as the following in Value Data:
0 = Local Computer
1 = Users Computer

Determine Timeout Printer Browser
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Print
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NetPrinterDecayPeriod.
Double click NetPrinterDecayPeriod and insert desired input in milisecond (0 - 4294967295 - default 3,600,000) at Value Data.

Determine Timeout In Print Server Broadcast
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Print
Make a new DWORD Value and give name ServerThreadTimeout.
Double click ServerThreadTimeout and insert desired input in milisecond (default 600,000 = 10 minute) in Value Data.

Show Cascade Function In Folder Printer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Make a new String Value and give name CascadePrinters.
Double click CascadePrinters and insert text Yes input in Value Data.

Optimalization Second Level Cache More Bigger
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management
Double click SecondLevelDataCache and insert input in kilobytes size form in (decimal) at Value Data.
Note: Only for old processor.

See Processor Information
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\Cen tralProcessor\0
Note: Only for see not for edited.

Change Windows Update Text In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte rnet Explorer
Make a new String Value and give name Windows Update Menu Text.
Double click Windows Update Menu Text ad insert desired input text in Value Data.

Deleting Shortcut To Label On Internet Explorer Links
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
Double click Show_FullURL and insert value 0 in Value Data.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Double click Show_FullURL and insert input text yes at Value Data.

Lock Toolbar Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar
Make a new DWORD Value and give name Locked.
Double click Locked and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Using Personalized Favorites Menu Function
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Make a new String Value if it's not existed yet, and give name FavIntelliMenus.
Double click FavIntelliMenus and insert input text Yes at Value Data.
Note: Jf this function activated, url list that rarely used will be hidden at Favorites menu.

Removing Few Toolbar Internet Explorer Button
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name SpecifyDefaultButtons.
Double click SpecifyDefaultButtons and insert value 1 in Value Data.
Then make a few DWORD Value to every button that you want to vanished with the following name:
Btn_Back
Btn_Forward
Btn_Stop
Btn_Refresh
Btn_Home
Btn_Search
Btn_Folders
Btn_Favorites
Btn_Media
Btn_History
Btn_Fullscreen
Btn_Tools
Btn_MailNews
Btn_Size
Btn_Print
Btn_Edit
Btn_Discussions
Btn_Cut
Btn_Copy
Btn_Paste
Btn_Encoding
Btn_PrintPreview
Double click each value and insert value 2 in Value Data.

Show Friendly HTTP Error Messages Function
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Double click Friendly http errors and insert input text Yes in Value Data.

Deactivated Expanding Internet Explorer New Menu Function
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoExpandedNewMenu.
Double click NoExpandedNewMenu and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Automatic Change File Picture Size In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Make a new String Value if it's not existed yet and give name Enable AutoImageResize.
Double click Enable AutoImageResize and insert input text Yes in Value Data.

Deactivated Internet Access
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet Settings
Make a few DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give each name ProxyEnable and ProxyServer.
Double click ProxyEnable and insert value 1 in Value Data.
Double click ProxyServer and insert input in fake proxy address form, ex: 127.0.0.1:1271
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte rnet Explorer\Control Panel
Make new 2 DWORD Value and give each name Connection Settings and Connwiz Admin Lock.
Double click each value and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Change Default Keep-Alive Time-Out On Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet Settings
Make a new DWORD Value and give name KeepAliveTimeout.
Double click KeepAliveTimeout and insert desired input in milisecond (default 120,000) at Value Data.

Change Amount of HTTP Simultaneous
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet Settings
Make 2 new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name MaxConnectionsPerServer and MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server.
Double click MaxConnectionsPerServer and insert desired input (default 2) in Value Data.
Double click MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server and insert desired input (default 4) in Value Data

Connection To Unicode Site (Foreign Language) With Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Wind ows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
Make a new DWORD Value and give name MBCSServername.
Double click MBCSServername and insert value 0 in Value Data.

Configuration System-Wide Proxy Function
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
Make a new DWORD Value and give name ProxySettingsPerUser.
Double click ProxySettingsPerUser and insert desired input as the following in Value Data:
0 = Whole Machine
1 = Per User

FTP Mode In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Ftp
Double click Use Web Based FTP and insert input text Yes in Value Data.

Deactivated Custom Search Page Function In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Double click Use Custom Search URL and insert value 0 in Value Data.

Using Classic Search In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Double click Use Search Asst and insert input text Yes in Value Data.
Search Function With Using Address Bar In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl
Choose menu Edit > New > Key and give name accordance with desired search engine. Ex: Google, Yahoo etc.
Open those new subkey and insert input in (Default) in search engine address form chosen with adding additional %s in the back. ex:
Google = [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]
Yahoo = [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]
Note: Only for Internet Explorer 6

Change Search Assistant In Internet Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search
Make a new String Value if it's not existed yet, and give name SearchAssistant.
Double click SearchAssistant and insert url address from chosen search engine in Value Data.
Ex: [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]

Change Default Search Page In Internet Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Make a new String Value if it's not existed yet, and give name Search Bar.
Double click Search Bar and insert url address from chosen search engine in Value Data.
Ex: [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...]

Deactivated Download File Function In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\3
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\3
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name 1803.
Double click 1803 and insert value 3 in Value Data.

Restriction Installation Program Through ActiveX In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\3
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name 1001.
Double click 1001 and insert desired input as the following in Value Data:
1 = Installations Prompt Enabled
3 = Installations Disabled

Deactivated Local Stylesheets Function In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Styles
Double click Use My Stylesheet and insert value 0 in Value Data.

Restriction For Import And Export Cookies Function And Favorites In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte rnet Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name DisableImportExportFavorites.
Double click DisableImportExportFavorites and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Activated Password Caching Function In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet Settings
Make a new DWORD Value and give name DisablePasswordCaching.
Double click DisablePasswordCaching and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Restriction On Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte rnet Explorer\Restrictions
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Int ernet Explorer\Restrictions
Make a new or few desired DWORD Value with their own name as the following:
AlwaysPromptWhenDownload - Always prompt user when downloading files.
NoBrowserBars - Disable changes to browsers bars.
NoBrowserClose - Disable the option of closing Internet Explorer.
NoBrowserContextMenu - Disable right-click context menu.
NoBrowserOptions - Disable the Tools > Internet Options menu.
NoBrowserSaveAs - Disable the ability to Save As.
NoFavorites - Disable the Favorites.
NoFileNew - Disable the File > New command.
NoFileOpen - Disable the File > Open command.
NoFindFiles - Disable the Find Files command.
NoNavButtons - Disables the Forward and Back navigation buttons
NoOpeninNewWnd - Disable Open in New Window option.
NoPrinting - Remove Print and Print Preview from the File menu.
NoSelectDownloadDir - Disable the option of selecting a download directory.
NoTheaterMode - Disable the Full Screen view option.
NoViewSource - Disable the ability to view the page source HTML.
RestGoMenu - Remove Mail and News menu item.
Double click at each value and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Caching Function On Secure Web Pages
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet Settings
Make a new DWORD Value if it's not existed yet, and give name DisableCachingOfSSLPages.
Double click DisableCachingOfSSLPages and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Activated Content Advisor
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Ratings\.Default
Make a few DWORD Value with each name as the following:
Enabled - (1 = enable content advisor, 0 = disable)
Allow_Unknowns - (1 = display unrated sites, 0 = restrict unrated sites)
PleaseMom - (1 = allow supervisor password, 0 = no supervisor override)
Double click at each value and insert desired input in Value Data.

Removing Content Advisor And Ratings Password Function
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Ratings
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Ratings
Delete subkey below ratings key.

Deactivated Help Menu In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte rnet Explorer\Restrictions
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Int ernet Explorer\Restrictions
Make a new or few desired DWORD Value with their own name as the following:
NoHelpMenu - Disable the entire help menu
NoHelpItemNetscapeHelp - Remove the "For Netscape Users" menu item
NoHelpItemSendFeedback - Remove the "Send Feedback" menu item
NoHelpItemTipOfTheDay - Remove the "Tip of the Day" menu item
NoHelpItemTutorial - Remove the "Tour" (Tutorial) menu item
Double click at each value and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Access To URL File In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD Value and give name NoFileUrl.
Double click NoFileUrl and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Control Panel Function In Internet Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte rnet Explorer\Control Panel
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Int ernet Explorer\Control Panel
Make a few desired DWORD Value with their own name as the following:
Advanced - Prevent changes to advanced settings
Autoconfig - Prevent changes to Automatic Configuration
Cache - Prevent changes to temporary file settings
CalendarContact - Prevent changes to calender and contacts
Certificates - Prevent changes to security certificates
Check_If_Default - Prevent changes to default browser check
Colors - Prevent Color changes
Connection Settings - Prevent changes to connection settings
Connection Wizard - Disable the Connection Wizard
Fonts - Disable font changes
History - Disable changes to History settings
HomePage - Disable changes to Home Page settings
Languages - Disable Language changes
Links - Disable Links changes
Messaging - Disable Messaging changes
Profiles - Disable changes to Profiles
Proxy - Disable changes to Proxy settings
Ratings - Disable Ratings changes
Wallet - Disable changes to Wallet settings
Accessibility - disables all options under Accessibility
GeneralTab - removes General tab
SecurityTab - removes Security tab
ContentTab - removes Content tab
ConnectionsTab - removes Connections tab
ProgramsTab - removes Programs tab
PrivacyTab - removes Privacy tab
AdvancedTab - removes Advanced tab
CertifPers - prevents changing Personal Certificate options
CertifSite - prevents changing Site Certificate options
CertifPub - prevents changing Publisher Certificate options
SecChangeSettings - prevents changing Security Levels for the Internet Zone
SecAddSites - prevents adding Sites to any zone
Privacy Settings - prevents changs to privacy settings
FormSuggest - disables AutoComplete for forms
FormSuggest Passwords - prevents Prompt me to save password from being displayed
Connwiz Admin Lock - disables the Internet Connection Wizard
Settings - prevents any changes to Temporary Internet Files
ResetWebSettings - disables the Reset web Setting button
Double click at each value and insert value 1 in Value Data.

Deactivated Function Installation Program From Website
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains
Make a new key right below Domains and give name accordance with chosen site name. ex
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\InternetSettings\ZoneMap\Domains\forbid den.com
Below those subkey, make a new DWORD Value and give name * and insert value 4 in Value Data.

How to download files from the Linux command line

Wget is a very cool command-line downloader for Linux and UNIX environments. Don’t be fooled by the fact that it is a command line tool. It is very powerful and versatile and can match some of the best graphical downloaders around today. It has features such as resuming of downloads, bandwidth control, it can handle authentication, and much more. I’ll get you started with the basics of using wget and then I’ll show you how you can automate a complete backup of your website using wget and cron.

Let’s get started by installing wget. Most Linux distributions come with wget pre-installed. If you manage to land yourself a Linux machine without a copy of wget try the following. On a Red Hat Linux based system such a Fedora you can use:

# yum install wget

or if you use a Debian based system like Ubuntu:

# sudo apt-get install wget

One of the above should do the trick for you. Otherwise, check with your Linux distribution’s manual to see how to get and install packages. wget has also been ported to Windows. Users on Windows can access this website. Download the following packages: ssllibs and wget. Extract and copy the files to a directory such as C:\Program Files\wget and add that directory to you system’s path so you can access it with ease. Now you should be able to access wget from your Windows command line.

The most basic operation a download manager needs to perform is to download a file from a URL. Here’s how you would use wget to download a file:

# wget http://www.sevenacross.com/photos.zip

Yes, it’s that simple. Now let’s do something more fun. Let’s download an entire website. Here’s a taste of the power of wget. If you want to download a website you can specify the depth that wget must fetch files from. Say you want to download the first level links of Yahoo!’s home page. Here’s how would do that:

# wget -r -l 1 http://www.yahoo.com/

Here’s what each options does. The -r activates the recursive retrieval of files. The -l stands for level, and the number 1 next to it tells wget how many levels deep to go while fetching the files. Try increasing the number of levels to two and see how much longer wget takes.

Now if you want to download all the “jpeg” images from a website, a user familiar with the Linux command line might guess that a command like “wget http://www.sevenacross.com*.jpeg” would work. Well, unfortunately, it won’t. What you need to do is something like this:

# wget -r -l1 –no-parent -A.jpeg http://www.sevenacross.com

Another very useful option in wget is the resumption of a download. Say you started downloading a large file and you lost your Internet connection before the download could complete. You can use the -c option to continue your download from where you left it.

# wget -c http://www.sevenacross.com/ubuntu-live.iso

Now let’s move on to setting up a daily backup of a website. The following command will create a mirror of a site in your local disk. For this purpose wget has a specific option, –mirror. Try the following command, replacing http://sevenacross.com with your website’s address.

# wget –mirror http://www.sevenacross.com/

When the command is done running you should have a local mirror of your website. This make for a pretty handy tool for backups. Let’s turn this command into a cool shell script and schedule it to run at midnight every night. Open your favorite text editor and type the following. Remember to adapt the path of the backup and the website URL to your requirements.

#!/bin/bash

YEAR=`date +”%Y”`
MONTH=`date +”%m”`
DAY=`date +”%d”`

BACKUP_PATH=`/home/backup/` # replace path with your backup directory
WEBSITE_URL=`http://www.sevenacross.net` # replace url with the address of the website you want to backup

# Create and move to backup directory
cd $BACKUP_PARENT_DIR/$YEAR/$MONTH
mkdir $DAY
cd $DAY

wget –mirror ${WEBSITE_URL}

Now save this file as something like website_backup.sh and grant it executable permissions:

# chmod +x website_backup.sh

Open your cron configuration with the crontab command and add the following line at the end:

0 0 * * * /path/to/website_backup.sh

You should have a copy of your website in /home/backup/YEAR/MONTH/DAY every day. For more help using cron and crontab, see this tutorial.

There’s a lot more to learn about wget than I’ve mentioned here. Read up wget’s man page