Monday, March 22, 2010

Tweak Windows XP - Disable User Tracking


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Do you know there is a built in user tracking system in Windows XP which is not beneficialfor the majority of computer user. Approximately 99% of users do not need this feature because there are very few uses for the information collected by user tracking system. Moreover, this feature utilize precious resources to boot so you should have to disable this feature to increase the efficiency of your Windows XP.


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer] "NoInstrumentation"=dword:00000001

To disable this feature, follow these steps:

  • Open Registry Editor from the RUN command by typing "regedit".
  • Browse to the location HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ 
  • Explorer it and find the DWORD NoInstrumentation
  • If this key is not there then you have to create it manually. 
  • The default setting is 0,  but to disable most of the user tracking features of the system set it to the 1.

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