Fix: Active desktop recovery with IE7

Having a Active desktop recovery popup suddenly is very annoying, in particular it forces your desktop background turn completely white that hurt my eyes. Different fixes were found but only the following worked for me(as System Admin. disable me from disable the active desktop)

Update the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\Components
Change the value of DeskHtmlVersion to zero instead of decimal 272.

Than logoff and login again

Get it here:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread63865.html

Skip "Compress Old Files" when doing Disk Cleanup

When running Disk Cleanup on Windows 2000 or XP workstations, there is always a long pause for checking how much space will be saved when compression is enabled. As hard disk become so cheap, there is hardy a reason to use Windows XP’s compress and the bigger the disk you have the longer it takes to scan. Here is a windows registry trick that skips the compress check:

http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/automatically-skip-compress-old-files-when-doing-disk-cleanup-in-2000-or-xp