DavesSleeping

I have been looking through the registry for a couple days now for the visual effects settings. I then got tired of looking for it so I decided to set them the way I want them, backup the entire registry, set all the visual effects options to on, and then restore the registry. After I restored the registry they were all still set to on wich leads me to believe the visual effects settings are not stored in the registry. Does anyone know where they are stored? <<<<<EDIT I am thinking they are in the Documents and Settings\%username%\NTUSER.DAT I will run a few tests to find out. <<<<<EDIT Just finished the test. I took and replaced C:\Documents and Settings\Windows XP\NTUSER.DAT with the one from C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\NTUSER.DAT and it indeed changed all of the visual effects from my settings to windows xp default, along with alot of other things. I took my original ntuser.dat and put it back everything was back to normal. So I took ntuser.dat and put it in $OEM$\$Docs\Windows XP\ cause a user account called Windows XP is created automatically during setup. When unattended install finshes I have nothing to configure. This also stores folder settings like the status bar and sound scheme. Anything that you can set in the registry and it looks like it is set in the control panel but isn't accually set is stored here aswell.