I'll teach you how to learn registry system appearance modification Instance (i) _ Registry

The Start menu, desktop, and taskbar in Windows XP basically follow the styles in Windows 2000, but each user's preferences are different, so you can set your own system skin style by modifying the registry. Here, we will give some examples of registry modifications in this regard.

[ start] Menu-Customized registry modifications

Get rid of the My Recent Documents menu:

Open the Hkey_current_usersoftwaremicrosoftwindowscurrentversionpoliciesexplorer (*) subkey branch in the Windows XP Registry Editor, right-click on it, and select New]| [DWORD] Value, and then name the new value "NoRecentDocsMenu", and the key value is set to 1 to restart the Windows XP system.

Remove the Search menu:

Open the above (*) Subkey branch, right click on the right, select [New]| [DWORD] Value, the new value is named "Nofind", the value is set to 1, restart Windows XP to take effect.

Remove the "Run" menu:

Similarly, a new DWORD value is named "NoRun" on the right side of the (*) subkey branch, with a value of 1, and the restart takes effect.

Remove the Logout menu:

Create a new DWORD value on the right of the (*) subkey branch, named "Startmenulogoff", with a value of 1, and the restart takes effect.

Remove the "Shut Down computer" menu:

Create a new DWORD value on the right of the (*) subkey branch, named "Noclose", with a value of 1, and the restart takes effect.

Remove the Help and Support menu:

Create a new DWORD value on the right of the (*) subkey branch, named "Nosmhelp", with a value of 1, and the restart takes effect.

Remove the My Pictures menu:

Create a new DWORD value on the right of the (*) subkey branch, named "Nosmmypictures", with a value of 1, and the restart takes effect.

Remove the My Documents menu:

Create a new DWORD value on the right of the (*) subkey branch, named "Nosmmydocs", with a value of 1, and the restart takes effect.

Get rid of my Music menu:

Create a new DWORD value on the right of the (*) subkey branch, named "Nostartmenumymusic", with a value of 1, and the restart takes effect.

Remove "Administrator" and other user names display:

Create a new DWORD value on the right of the (*) subkey branch, named "Nousernameinstartmenu", with a value of 1, and the restart takes effect.

Remove the "Settings" menu from the Classic Start menu:

Create a new DWORD value on the right of the (*) subkey branch, named "Nosetfolders", with a value of 1, and the restart takes effect.

Remove the Favorites menu from the Classic Start menu:

Create a new DWORD value on the right of the (*) subkey branch, named "NoFavoritesMenu", with a value of 1, and the restart takes effect.

Remove the line that says "Click here to start" When the mouse is moved to the Start menu:

Create a new binary value on the right of the (*) subkey branch, named "Nostartbanner", and change the default value of 00 00 00 00 to 01 00 00 00, and the restart takes effect.

Set the maximum number of records in my recent documents on the Start menu:

Create a new DWORD value on the right side of the (*) subkey, named "Maxrecentdocs," and the value is the maximum number of records (decimal) you want, and the restart takes effect.

lock [taskbar]:

Create a new DWORD value on the right of the (*) subkey branch, named "Locktaskbar", with a value of 1, and the restart takes effect. At this point, when you right-click the taskbar, the lock taskbar option becomes grayed out and cannot be modified directly by the mouse.

To display any one of the above settings, simply delete the new DWORD value that corresponds to the setting, or change the value to 0, and restart to take effect.

The setup situation is roughly as shown: