Hide your computer from people browsing network
make it so that other people on your network can't see your computer while they browse through the network!
If you have a system that doesn't have anything shared you may want to
completely remove it from your list of computers on the network.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters]
"Hidden"="1"
More secure sharing
By default, on computers
running Windows XP Professional and not joined to a domain, all incoming network
connections are forced to use the Guest account. This means that an incoming
connection, even if a user name and password is provided, has only Guest-level
access to the share. Because of this, either the Guest user account or the
Everyone group (the only group to which the Guest account belongs) must have
permissions on the share and on the directories and files that are shared.
Read the MS docs
here.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa]
"ForceGuest"="0"
Covering your tracks:
Clear the Page File at System Shutdown
Your pagefile basically caches all of the stuff that you have run
recently. If you've been running some things that you don't want in
that cached copy then you'll want to clear that pagefile.
The other big use for this is something sometimes referred to as
"defragging" your pagefile. By deleting all of the old contents when
you restart windows all of your pagefile will be recreated. If you're
like most of us around here and very rarely reboot then turning this on
will probably help your performance out a bit. This will make your
shutdown process take longer since it is often times over 1Gb of data.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory
Management]
"ClearPageFileAtShutdown"="1"
This
will force IE to destroy temporary data stored like images. 0 will
cause the destruction of these files while 1 allows it to leave
everything behind!
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\Cache]
"Persistent"="0"
