Windows Registry Tips

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Disabling the Blinking Cursor in Computer Applications




If you are using any computer application, for example MS Word or MS FrontPage and you did not like blinking of cursor. You can stop the cursor from blinking in these applications to edit your computer registry keys, but be careful to work with computer registry.

Follow the given steps to stop cursor from blinking:

•First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.

•Here locate the location to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

•Here add the string value with name CursorBlink and value -1

•At the end restart your computer for this change.

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Reduce the shutdown time of Windows 2000 and XP.


You can reduce the shutdown time of windows 2000 and XP using some tricks. Actually windows XP take time to close all running programs and applications before shutdown, but you can minimize this time if you have little knowledge about editing windows registry.

Follow the given steps to reduce the shutdown time:


•First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option. Here locate the location to:

•Go to Hkey_Current_User\Control Panel\Desktop

•Here in right side panel, double click on AutoEndTasks and here its default value is 0. Now change it to 1.

•Now in same side panel double click on value name WaitToKillAppTimeout. Its default value data is 20000; now change this value of WaitToKillAppTimeout to 3500.

•Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.