shell-things/Windows/Windows.reg.markdown

This file is supposed to explain Windows.reg.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin"=dword:00000002
"ConsentPromptBehaviorUser"=dword:00000002

• Ask admins yes/no on UAC
  • 1 would also ask for password, 0 disable entirely.
• prompt standard users for username and password.
  • The other option (1) doesn’t even give them UAC prompt so you must always login as admin to do anything.

"dontdisplaylastusername"=dword:00000000
"shutdownwithoutlogon"=dword:00000001
"undockwithoutlogon"=dword:00000001
"VerboseStatus"=dword:00000001
"HideStartupScripts"=dword:00000000
"HideShutdownScripts"=dword:00000000
"EnableFirstLogonAnimation"=dword:00000000

• Display the user list.
• Allows shutdown without being logged in
• Allows undocking without logging in
• Shows verbose information on login (starting service…)
• Shows output of startup scripts
• Shows output of shutdown scripts
• Disables the first logon animation on Windows 8*

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation]
"RealTimeIsUniversal"=dword:00000000
"RealTimeIsUniversal"=qword:00000000

• Sets hardware clock to UTC time (doesn’t affect system clock!)
  • qword for 64-bit, dword for 32-bit systems. The latter might override earlier one.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters]
"AddrConfigControl"=dword:00000000

• be able to resolve IPv6 even when connection isn’t native.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\TCPIP\v6Transition]
"Teredo_DefaultQualified"="Enabled"
"Teredo_State"="Enterprise Client"
"Teredo_ServerName"="teredo.trex.fi"

• Enable Teredo
• Enable Teredo even when joined to domain.
• Use teredo.trex.fi as Teredo server as it’s in Finland where I am.

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard]
"InitialKeyboardIndicators"="2147483650"

• Enable numlock on boot.