Verizon Users:
The biggest thing that I did to my phone to speed it up was to take OFF the Wireless Sync Client. If you dont know what that is,
here is a link, if you do and you can live without it... DO IT! It is amazing how many resources that little program takes.
On with the hacks:
Remove “Message Sent” Notification when sending text messages.
Navigate to
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Inbox\”
Create a key called “Settings”
Create a String Value called “SMSNoSendMsg”
Set the value to “1”
Now when you send a text message, you will feel a little naked.
Change contents of New menu on the “Today Screen”
The “New” button allows you to create various file types directly from the today screen. Adding new items in is tricky but it is easy to remove them.
Navigate to
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\Extensions\NewMenu”
Look in the keys and remove the items you no longer want. Adding them back will be a pain so take caution doing this.
Change which items load at startup.
Navigate to
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\Start Items”
Add or Remove keys according to what you want to run. Not all programs are listed here as some programs are configured in their own settings.
Change the amount of suggested words when inputting data.
Navigate to
“HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Sip”
Find “SuggWords”
Change value to between 0 and 6(4 is the default)
I have been using my device with one word showing since I got my device. This is also configurable through the Settings/Input applet but it did not work for me until I made the registry changes.
Change the location of My Documents to the SD Card.
This one is complicated but possible. I had to play around with this one for a while trying and failing with several methods, succeeding with this one. The order in which you do this is essential.
Please ensure that your SD card and My Documents are backed up. It is recommended that you do this on a fresh install of your ROM. This cleared out my “My Documents” folder but I was able to restore it.
1. Reset your device
2. Synchronise your device with your PC
3. Navigate to
“HKLM\System\StorageManager\Profiles\SDMemory“
4. Change the “Folder” key to “My Documents”
5. Rename your original “My Documents” folder to “My Docs”. This is a crucial step, but it does not matter what you name it.
6. Power off and reset your device.
7. Sync your Device
You should see in “File Explorer that your “My Documents” folder has an SD card icon next to it.
Copy your files back into your My Documents.
I hope these have worked for you. Please put more in the comments as you come across them. There are bound to be hundreds of these tweaks. If tweaking is not for you, check out the rest of Inspect My Gadget for other types of workarounds.
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