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 |