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Hacks For XP and Vista- not all may work on Vista  

Please back up your registry before attempting these  

(1) Renaming you’re my computer icon  

Hkey_classes_root\cslid\20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309

Rename localizedstring value localizedstring.old

Right click and choose create expandable string value

Value data= %Your Windows USERNAME% on %The NAME you want%

Effective after reboot

(2)Listing Your Favorites in Alphabetical order

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Favorites

Delete the favorites key and reboot

(3) Force Internet Explorer to run full screen (this is a 2 step process)

Step 1

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console
Find value full screen and change it to a 1 instead of 0

Step 2

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Main
create a string value and name it full screen
Type is yes in the Value date

(4) Settling down Windows Vista’s User Control

 This is one of my favorites. This disables alerts for administrators. This keeps the UAC from popping up every time you run a program but at the same time keeps the important protection measures intact. Some programs might not like this but that’s ok because you can always change it back

Pull up this key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin

Change this value to 0

re-enable it with a 2

Hacks for Faster Performance- Careful with this one!!  

Find the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]

There are several entries in here you can tweak

ForegroundLockTimeout:

This is the time, the system keeps applications from moving into the background after you are done with them.

To speed this up change value to: 00000000

MenuShowDelay

This will speed up the start menu

Try 300 to 400

WaitToKillAppTimeout

This one effects shutdown. This is how long the system waits for user processes to end before logging off.

Try 4000 -5000  

Hungapptimeout

This one relates to selecting end task on a process. It controls the time it takes for the program to shutdown

Recommended setting: 4000