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I can't even imagine how horrible it would be to be stuck with Vista, but if you have XP, here are a couple of ideas that can deal with some annoying problems.
The first thing that will annoy the shit out of you will be those balloon tips that the task bar can fart out faster than you can close them. To fix that, first back up your registry, then open 'regedit' and drill down to here:
XKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Current Version -> Explorer -> Advanced
Go up to the edit menu and create a new DWORD value called EnableBalloonTips, which should already be set to 0 for you.
Exit out of regedit, and you're done with nasty balloons, at least for you. This is a user-specific setting, which is why it's good to create an extra privileged account as well as backing up your registry. There are things that you can fuck up and still log in and fix your machine.
The other thing that's a pain in the ass is when you put in a CD, DVD or memory stick and Windows ALWAYS asks what you what you want to do with it, even if you checked "do nothing, always take this action" the last time. This is even easier to fix. Go to administrative tools, services. Find the service called "shell hardware detection", click on it and stop it. Then right-click on it and set it to disabled. This will stop that action for good. These actions are worth at least a case of beer, a tank of gas, or a blow job.
"DENISE! DID YOU REALLY SAY BLOW JOB!"
That was my mom. She can be a real bitch sometimes.
-denise
The first thing that will annoy the shit out of you will be those balloon tips that the task bar can fart out faster than you can close them. To fix that, first back up your registry, then open 'regedit' and drill down to here:
XKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Current Version -> Explorer -> Advanced
Go up to the edit menu and create a new DWORD value called EnableBalloonTips, which should already be set to 0 for you.
Exit out of regedit, and you're done with nasty balloons, at least for you. This is a user-specific setting, which is why it's good to create an extra privileged account as well as backing up your registry. There are things that you can fuck up and still log in and fix your machine.
The other thing that's a pain in the ass is when you put in a CD, DVD or memory stick and Windows ALWAYS asks what you what you want to do with it, even if you checked "do nothing, always take this action" the last time. This is even easier to fix. Go to administrative tools, services. Find the service called "shell hardware detection", click on it and stop it. Then right-click on it and set it to disabled. This will stop that action for good. These actions are worth at least a case of beer, a tank of gas, or a blow job.
"DENISE! DID YOU REALLY SAY BLOW JOB!"
That was my mom. She can be a real bitch sometimes.
-denise
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