No matter which version of Windows you are using, Windows Registry is of utmost importance. Using it, we can customize the working of Windows. Every time we need to make any change in Windows, it is done through Registry Editor. Windows Vista offers its users an alternative way, by which it is not necessary to open the Registry Editor. The alternative is Windows Vista Registry Shell Namespace Extension. This extension allows the interaction of Windows Registry with Windows Explorer. It is a freeware and can be freely downloaded from the internet. Through this extension one can search, delete or create registry information through Windows Explorer.
How it works:
This extension works by opening the Windows Registry.
- Click HKEY_CURRENT_USER
- Click Control Panel
- Go to desktop
- In the right pane, double click MenuShowDelay
- Change the value of string to zero
So this is how the Windows Vista Registry Shell Namespace Extension allows Windows Explorer to interact with Registry Editor.
Hi, thanks a for nice tutorial.
There is much interesting to learn when start to digg inside Windows registry. As from the beginning been quite protected from discoverys by all this fine symbolic names and words and meanings.
Let me help a bit, when right-click in Windows (without connection to dependencies of which version we use, XP, Vista or Win7) it’s common we see one or more lines in the menu which can be opened in a new extended menu like a “sub-menu”. It’s not unusual that this extended feature become activated with the consequence that it slows down the average loading process of the whole right-click menu. So by this in mind MS created the possibility for us to stick in a small delay so we can reach the main-menu a little bit faster instead. That’s what we can do by the key; MenuShowDelay were we also able to change this delay in milliseconds were 400 is default value i suppose.
Yep when look a little bit further on internet there are 100′s of Registry Shell Namespace Extension tool’s available to download but prefer do these tweaks on my own without get all the pre-made stuff.
When discus right-click menus in browsers there’s for the moment actually only IE that has integration with Windows registry and open for some tweaks in my own experience but might be more.