Reverse the mouse buttons:~
1) No context menu
What will you see when you right click on the
desktop? You will see a context menu which says arrange icons,
refresh,..and so on. Are you angry at your friend for not wishing you
for you B'day? Do you wanna play a trick on a newbie in your family who
is new to computers? This is a cool trick to play. By this tweak, you
will be able to disable the right click on the desktop or any
icons/files/folders/applications... But right click will work on taskbar
of the start button and registry. So, dont worry!!!
Open your registry and you will see all unknown files like
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT....... and so on. Don't panic. Follow this path.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER>SOFTWARE>MICROSOFT>WINDOWS>CURRENT
VERSION>POLICIES>EXPLORER. On the right side of the registry, you
will see two files(in general) named 'default' and 'NoDriveTypeAutoRun'.
Right click on the empty space in the registry and goto New>DWORD
VALUE and name it as "NoViewContextMenu". Remember, no spaces and
N,V,C,M should be capitals. Right click on this and click modify. The
default value will be 0. Change it to 1. Note: DONOT CHANGE THE
HEXADECIMAL TO DECIMAL. Click OK. Close your registry and logout.
Bingo!!! Once you login again, right click wont work. Your friend will
be perplexed and the next thing he/she does is call the system
administrator not knowing that not all system administrators will be
knowing about registry. Now, to enable it again. follow the same path
and set the value to 0. Logout and then login to see the effect.
2) Reverse the mouse buttons
This
is a cool trick to play on newbies. Actually, there are two ways to do
this. One is changing the settings in the Control panel and the other is
through editing registry. You can do it either way. But I prefer the
second way, which is challenging.
(i) Through Control Panel - goto
Start> Control Panel> Printers and other hardware> Mouse. In
Button configuration, enable the switch primary and secondary buttons
option and click OK. But remember, you have just swapped the mouse
buttons. So, for OK, you have to click the right mouse button. The
newbie will be perplexed. Well, this trick is good for left handers.
(ii)
Editing the registry - By default the left mouse button is the primary
and the right is secondary. Open your registry and follow this path:
HLEY_CURRENT_USER>Control
Panel>Mouse and on the right side of the registry, create this
String value(REG_SZ): 'SwapMouseButtons' and set its value to 1.
Bingo!!! You are done. Log out/Restart the computer.
You can try
this: Combine tricks 1 and 2. That means, this will result in swapping
of the mouse buttons and disabling the left click(once the buttons are
swapped). User is ready to call system administrator cuz he feels that
the system is behaving wildly.
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