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Hacks & tweaks

Experimental Windows tweaks: registry edits, Group Policy notes, an Excel VBA logger, and a bookmark to ANSICON. Apply at your own risk — many of these poke at system-level settings.

Heads up

Registry tweaks (.reg files) modify Windows system state. Read them before double-clicking, and back up the relevant keys first (File → Export in regedit).

Excel VBA

File Purpose
Excel-VBA-script-to-log-every-change-in-a-sheet.js Logs every cell change in a sheet (default name Use Cases) to a password-protected Change Log sheet.

Bookmarks

File Purpose
ansicon.url Shortcut to the ANSICON GitHub repo (ANSI color support for Windows terminal).

Registry tweaks

CMD-experience tweaks:

File Purpose
AutoRun.reg Sets CMD completion chars, delayed expansion, auto-runs doskeys.cmd.
CommandProcessorAll.reg Configures CMD completion, default color, extensions, delayed expansion, auto-runs doskeys.cmd.
DelayedExpansion.reg Enables delayed expansion in CMD.

System / UI tweaks:

File Purpose
ActivateWindowOnHover.regedit.txt Pointer to "activate window by hover" Control Panel setting.
LastActiveClick.reg Explorer setting: record last active click for UI state.
RemoveAutoPinningInTaskbar.regedit.txt Reference to taskbar shell folder layout XML.
ShowSecondsInSystemClock.regedit.txt Reference for showing seconds in the system clock.
TaskbarCopilot.regedit.txt Reference for the Copilot taskbar button setting.
TurnOffWindowsCopilot-Disabled.reg Sets TurnOffWindowsCopilot=0 (Copilot enabled).

Power & sleep:

File Purpose
ScreenSaveTimeOut.reg Sets screen-saver timeout to 300 seconds (5 min).
SystemUnattendedSleepTimeoutAttribute1to2.reg Reveals the unattended sleep-timeout option in Power settings.
hibernate.regedit.txt Reference for hibernation power-setting registry path.

Other:

File Purpose
WSLExtendedKey_ForOptionWithoutShift.reg Adds WSL context-menu entry; access without holding Shift.
update.reg Windows Update policy: version 2004, auto-update disabled, quality updates paused.

Folder: Hacks/registry/

Group Policy notes

Reference snippets describing settings under gpedit.msc. Documentation only — no automation.

File Topic
Sleep Settings - Require-a-password-when-computer-wakes-up.txt Sleep / wake password policy
Widgets Allow Widgets Set to Disable.txt Disabling Widgets
Screen-saver-timeout.txt Screen-saver timeout under Personalization

Folder: Hacks/Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)/