Shannon

What extra services are installed with SP2? I just installed SP2 and noticed the 'Security Center' service (the thing that monitors your firewall/antivirus and is pretty useless to me). Anyway, I have a a .reg file that automatically tweaks my Windows services and this got me thinking, what other services does SP2 install, so that I can ammend my reg file. Thanks.

MSN Messenger 6.2 Feature list: Launch Site renamed "Fun & Games" Shared Browsing Enabled for MSN Subscribers MSN Messenger "Connection Troubleshooter" (automatically solve many network connectivity problems) Minor : 'Real time' emoticon displaying when typing messages (e.g. : ) -> whilst you type) Minor : Ability to hide the standard buttons at the top of the messenger window, ala MS Messenger Minor : Mobile grouping on the main pane; for mobile contacts they are grouped asides from normal contactsp As you can see, Micrsoft dissapointed everyone (well, me anyway) by not including animated display pictures like they said and making as wait so long for nothing virtually. That realtime emoticon thing is more annoying than it sounds (it stuffs up with some of the other emoticons and such). I ended up downgrading to 6.1 again.

Hey, do you know of anything that will unpack NSIS installers?

Awesome! I'm making my first unattended install and this will come in handy. Thanks.

I did search and come across numerous results. I copy and pasted into a reg file and merged it into the registry, but the effects are still checked - even after a reboot. What am I doing wrong? Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects]"VisualFXSetting"=dword:00000003 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\AnimateMinMax]"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ComboBoxAnimation]"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\CursorShadow]"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\DragFullWindows]"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\DropShadow]"DefaultValue"=dword:00000001"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\FontSmoothing]"DefaultValue"=dword:00000001"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListBoxSmoothScrolling]"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListviewAlphaSelect]"DefaultValue"=dword:00000001"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListviewShadow]"DefaultValue"=dword:00000001"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListviewWatermark]"DefaultValue"=dword:00000001"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\MenuAnimation]"DefaultValue"=dword:00000001"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\SelectionFade]"DefaultValue"=dword:00000001"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\TaskbarAnimations]"DefaultValue"=dword:00000001"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\Themes] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\TooltipAnimation]"DefaultValue"=dword:00000001"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\WebView]"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000BTW - this is my first post on MSFN.