Tweaking Windows

[jussij]

This registry entry will add tab complete to the cmd.exe console window:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]
"CompletionChar"=dword:00000009

This registry entry will add an option to open a console window using the mouse right click menu from within Explorer:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\DosHere]
@="Command &Prompt Here"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\DosHere\command]
@="cmd.exe /k cd \"\"%1\"\"\""

These registry entries turn off the 'Hide file extensions' Explorer option:

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\HideFileExt]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"HideFileExt"=dword:00000000

This registry entry allows HTML Help files to be viewed from a network location (for more details see this link):

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\1.x\ItssRestrictions] 
"MaxAllowedZone"=dword:00000001

Cheers Jussi