http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Registry Hack? en Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:45:40 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/registry-hack#post-36914 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:21:58 +0000 incog 36914@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Thanks! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/registry-hack#post-36894 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:01:19 +0000 k9 36894@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>You must be talking about verbose startup. Here is what you need to do.</p> <p>1. Go to Start &gt; Run, type regedit and click OK.</p> <p>2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\<br /> System</p> <p>3. Right click at an empty area on the right pane, select New &gt; DWORD Value and type VerboseStatus.</p> <p>4. Now double click on the new verbosestatus key that you just created and enter the value data as 1.</p> <p>5. Again, right click at an empty area on the right pane, select NEW &gt; DWORD Value and type DisableStatusMessages. By default, the value data should be 0. Leave it as it is.</p> <p>Now when you restart your computer, it will very quickly show you the DLL files that is executed during Windows is starting up screen. When you shutdown, it will tell you that it is playing logoff sound, stopping windows file protection, windows is shutting down and etc… </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/registry-hack#post-36886 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:12:48 +0000 incog 36886@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Does anyone know what the reg mod is to make XP display each startup process in the GUI when it is starting up? Normaly you'd see like preparing network connections... etc. This hack also show other items as they are processed.</p> <p>Thanks in advance. </p>