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Customization Tips

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A Quick Tip To Create a Dependable Service: Date - Dec 02, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can create a service dependable on another service.
Alphabetize Start Menu: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2; Author - Wayne Maples
Control Desktop and Explorer Info Descriptions: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.7; Author - Wayne Maples
Desktop Restrictions: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples
Explorer - Hide Common Groups: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3; Author - Wayne Maples
Hide Control Panel, Printers, and My Computer Folders in Explorer: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3; Author - Wayne Maples
Hide Desktop Icons: Date - Mar 22, 2006; Rating - 3.9; Author - Wayne Maples; This tip has been recently updated. It details how to remove desktop icons on various Windows systems.
Hide Folders in Start Menu: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 5; Author - Wayne Maples
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 1.8; Author - Wayne Maples
How to Lock Down Windows NT and Internet Explorer 4.01 Desktop: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2; Author - Wayne Maples
How to Re-create Default Icons Deleted from Desktop: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Wayne Maples
How to run your own application when Windows Starts?: Date - Sep 17, 2008; Rating - 5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains a registry entry which you can use to run your application instead of Windows default Shell (Explorer.exe).
Lockdown right-click on the Start Button: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4; Author - Wayne Maples
Remove Run command from Start menu: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.6; Author - Wayne Maples
Remove Windows NT / Windows 2000 Shut Down button from Start Menu: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.3; Author - Wayne Maples
Restoring .lnk file associations: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 3.4; Author - Wayne Maples
Taskbar does not appear on Start Menu: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 2.6; Author - Wayne Maples