Advanced Tips for Windows Explorer

There are some useful advanced settings for Windows Explorer that can only be accessed from the Registry. To see them, click Start and type regedit into the Start menu box, Windows XP users will need to type it into the Run box.

Now navigate to:
[code scroll="false"]HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced[/code]

On the right, you’ll see some settings. In many of these values, there is a zero (false) or a 1 (true).
For example, ShowlnfoTip is set to 1, which means true, but if you double-click it and set it to 0, it turns off the pop-up tips you get when you move your mouse over something in Explorer windows.



TaskbarSizeMove changes whether you’re allowed to move or resize the Taskbar. Taskbar SmallIcons should be set to 0 if you want large Taskbar icons or 1 if you want small ones.

To add EnableBalloonTips, select Edit, New, DWORD (32-bit) Value and name it EnableBalloonTips. Double-click this new entry and set it to 1 if you want pop-up balloon messages at the right-side of the Taskbar, or 0 if you don’t want to see these pop-up messages at all.