Some notes for setting up Windows

[Yoni]

While installing Windows, I put together a file with quick reference of a few non-obvious things that are nice to do when you install Windows.

http://yoni.valhallalegends.com/stuff/CRnotes.txt

These notes are written for installing Windows Server 2003 and getting it to work more like Windows 2000 Professional... Some/all of them may apply to Windows XP as well. Also, almost all of them are biased towards my preferences, adjust as you wish.

[idoL]

Windows, boo!

[hismajesty]

What's wrong with autorun?

[iago]

What's wrong with autorun?

Some music cds these days will automatically install anti-piracy software on your computer.  That, and some auto-runs are just annoying.

[hismajesty]

Oh, agreed music cd autoruns are annoying. I hate when it runs an annoying interactive flash thing when all I want to do is rip the CD.

[Spht]

I usually hold shift when I put in a CD which I don't want to autorun.  Otherwise, the feature is quite useful for when inserting commonly used music CDs.

[Yoni]

Autorun is nothing but annoyance. It's never useful, sorry.

Edit: Added a few more things to the gpedit.msc list (removal of recycle bin, removal of Themes tab from Display control panel). See link above for updated notes.