Command to start/stop Windows Update.

Here is a command which helps to start or stop the windows update on windows.

To start : net start wuauserv

To stop : net stop wuauserv

To Clear recent document on exit in Jump List

Through Registry:
1. Open regedit.
2. Navigate to "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer"
3. Make "ClearRecentDocsOnExit" to 1 to disable recent documents on Jump list.

Through Group Policy:
1. Open Grtoup Policy.
2. Navigate to "User Configuration\AdministrativeTemplates\Start Menu & Taskbar"
3. Click "Clear history of recently opened documents on exit" and disable it to show the recent files in Jump List.

How to change time zone through Command Prompt.

Here are the few commands to change the Time Zone through command prompt:

1. tzutil /g - To get the current time zone.

C:\Windows\system32>tzutil /g
India Standard Time

2. tzutil /l - To get the time zone list.

C:\Windows\system32>tzutil /l

3. tzutil /s "India Standard Time" - to set the specific time zone.
Note: Give the desired zone in between "" to set.

Enable or Disable MMC

To enable or disable Microsoft Management Console, go through the following different ways,

Through Registry Editor:
1. Open Registry Editor.
2. Locate "RestrictToPermittedSnapins" under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\MMC"
3. Modify the value to "0" to enable Microsoft Management Console and viceversa.

Through Group Policy:
1. Open Group Policy.
2. Locate "Restrict users to the explicitly permitted list of snap-ins" under "User Configuration\\Administrative Templates\\Windows Components\\Microsoft Management Console\\Restricted/Permitted Snap-ins"
3. Modify it to enable to access all snap-ins and viceversa.

Enable or Disable Registry Editing Tools.

Here are the few ways to enable or disable registry editing tools, They are:

Through Group Policy:
1. Open gpedit.msc.
2. Navigate to "User Configuration\Administrative Templates\System"
3. Locate "Prevent access to registry editing tools"
4. Enable it to disable.

Registry Editor:
1. Open regedit in administrator mode.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
3. If the value DisableRegistryTools is present modify its value to 0 to enable Registry Editor.
4. If the value is not present create a DWORD and name is as value in the step 3.
5. Inorder to disable Registry Editor modify the value to 1.

Disable/Enable Right Click Context Menu in IE.

Here are few ways which help to disable or enable right click on context menu in Internet Explorer.

Through Regedit:
1. Open Regedit.
2. Locate "NoBrowserContextMenu" under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Restrictions"
3. Change the value of above DWORD to 1 to disable the right click and viceversa.

Through Group Policy:
1. Open Group Policy.
2. Locate "Disable Context Menu" under "User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\Browser menus"
3. Enable it inorder to disable and viceversa.

To disable Run time error dialogues in IE while surfing.

Here are few possibilities, which is used to disable runtime error dialogues in Internet Explorer while surfing.

Through Internet Options:
1. Open Internet Options by using the command "inetcpl.cpl" through run or under "Tools" menu on IE.
2. Go to Advanced tab.
3. Scroll down to browsing and disable the following options to disable runtime error.
    * Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer)
    * Disable Script Debugging (other).

Through Registry Editor:
1. Open Regedit.
2. Navigate to the locations and make the value of "Disable Script Debugger" to "yes" to disable:
    * HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Main
    * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\MAIN
3. Navigate to the locations and make the value of "Disable Script DebuggerIE" to "yes" to disable:
    * HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Main
    * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\MAIN

Through Group Policy:
1. Open gpedit.msc.
2. Go to the location: "User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\Internet Settings\Advanced Settings\Browsing"
3. Select "Turn On Script Debugging" and change the settings to disable.
4. By default it will be as "Not Configured".

How to disable Advanced option in IE.

There are so many options available to change each and every settings in windows component. Among those, here is a settings which can enable or disable "Advanced" option in IE.

Through Registry Editor:
1. Open regedit through run.
2. Locate the DWORD "Advanced" under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Control Panel
3. Make it to "0" to enable the Advanced option and viceversa.

Through Group Policy:
1. Open gpedit.msc.
2. Locate the option "Disable the Advanced Page" under "User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\Internet ControlPanel
3. Enable it to disable the option and vicecersa.

Reset IE Homepage Settings.

Here are few steps to reset the IE homepage settings.

Through Registry Editor.
1. Open Registry Editor.
2. Proceed with the following steps to enable homepage change.
  * Make the DWORD HomePage to 0 under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Control Panel
  * Make the DWORD NOSaveSettings to 0 under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\Explorer
  * Make the DWORD HomePage to 0 under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Control Panel
3. Inoder to disable change all the above values to 1.

Through Group Policy:
1. Open Group Policy.
2. Go to the Location: User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer.
3. On the right panel, select "Disable changing homepage settings" and make it to enable and select the particular url.
4. If you want to enable, select disable.

Change Internet Options under tools menu on IE.

Here is few keys to enable or disable Internet Options under tools menu on IE.

Through Group policy:
1. Open gpedit.msc.
2. Navigate to : User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\Browser menus
3. Enable the option: Tools menu: Disable Internet Options… menu option

Though Registry Editor:
1. Open regedit.
2. Navigate to the following paths:
    * "HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions"
      * "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions"
3. If the DWORD "NoBrowserOptions" is already present modify the value to "0" to enable Internet Options.
4. If the DWORD "NoBrowserOptions" is not present, create it.
5. Inorder to disable make the value to 1.

Note: Enabling the value to 1, will disable the Internet options only under tools menu.

Enable / Disable First Run Customize Settings.

Here are the few options to enable or disable "First Run Customize Settings" during IE installation.

Through Group Policy:
1. Open gpedit.msc through run.
2. Locate to User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer.
3. Select "Prevent Performance of First Run Customize Settings"
4. Click Enable to enable prevention.
5. When you click enable "Select your choice" will be enabled under options panel.
6. Choose your desired option and enjoy the settings.

Through Registry Editor:
1. Open Registry editor.
2. There are few keys to be modified. Here are those.
   i. DisableFirstRunCustomize:
   >This key may reside under any of the following paths
      * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
      * HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
      * HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
      * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
   > Choose the Value the DWORD, DisableFirstRunCustomize and modify:
      * 0 to show the First Run page;
      * 1 to show the First Home Page or Start Page;
      * 2 to show the Welcome to Internet Explorer page
   > By Default the value will be 0.
   ii. RunOnceComplete and RunOnceHasShown
   >This key may reside under any of the following paths
      * HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
      * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
  > Choose the Value the DWORD, RunOnceComplete and RunOnceHasShown and modify
   > By Default the value will be 0.

Note: For IE8 and IE9, the Dword will be as, IE8RunOnceComplete, IE8RunOnceHasShown and IE9RunOnceComplete, IE9RunOnceHasShown.

Show or Hide Internet Explorer Icon From Desktop on Vista.

There is an option available to remove Internet Explorer icon from desktop:

Through Group Policy:
1. Open gpedit.msc through run.
2. Navigate to: User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Desktop.
3. On the right panel, select "Hide Internet Explorer Icon on Desktop"
4. Enable it to remove the icon.

Enable or disable Games Explorer.

Here are the few ways to enable or disable Games Explorer in Windows.

Through "Windows Features":
1. Search "Turn windows features on or off".
2. Once processed deselect the checkbox left to "Games" inorder to disable.

Enable or Disable Explorer.exe.

Here is the registry key to enable or disable explorer.exe on windows.

1. Open Registry editor.
2. Navigate to the location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon
3. By default the value of "Shell" on the right pane will be "explorer.exe".
4. If you want to disable change it to some other values.

Note: For a system to work effectively, explorer.exe is essential.

Through Task Manager:
1. Open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc).
2. Select explorer.exe and click end process.
3. Then restart your machine.
4. If you want to enable it again, press Ctrl+Alt+Del.
5. Open Task manager, Click New and open explorer.exe and restart your machine.

Enable or Disable CD/DVD drive in windows.

To enable or disable CD/Dvd drive, Here are the few step.

Through Gpedit:
1. Open gpedit.msc through run.
2. Navigate to User Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Removable Storage Access.
3. On the right pane click "All Removable Storage Classes:Deny all access"
4. Inorder to enable it chose disable and viceversa. (By default it will be as "Not Configured" which means it is enable)

Through Device Management:
1. Open devmgmt.msc through run.
2. Scroll down to DVD/CD-ROM Drives.
3. Select the drive on which you want to disable and click the icon which is present on the top.

Through Registry Editor:
1. Open regedit through run.
2. Navigate to the paths:
 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Class\\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318
3. Inorder to disable delete the keys "Upper Filters" and "Lower Filters"

This may or may-not require reboot.