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No. 'regsvr32.exe /s /n /i:U shell32.dll' is already executed after the creation of every new profile. It´s already in the registry, it makes part of Windows. Only the registry entries must be added. That entries will define the default configuration of the effects that will be setted by regsvr32. Edmundo.

This is a project to get Win XP unattended installation from network: http://unattended.sourceforge.net I use this to install Win XP from a Samba server. But the way that it's executed is a little restrictive, I boot with a custom MS-DOS floppy loaded trough PXE, the installation gets started by command line and sees only filenames with 8.3 characters. Anyway, I don't know were nlite put these changes or how it does, I use nlite for example to slipstream servicepacks of my installations, but had some problems installing tweaked versions made by nlite, so, my registry tweaks I made by hand and make them get executed by cmdlines.txt. Regards. Edmundo.

Hi. I have looked at the posts in the forum and didn't found any registry tweak to turn off the visual effects, all that I found doesn't work, I saw even people making programs to do that. Even the file with all the tweaks that is in the forum doesn't worked for me. Well, here goes what I have done to make it works. Appears that every time a new profile is created a shell object gets executed to set some defaults in the desktop. regsvr32.exe /s /n /i:U shell32.dll that is at: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4340} This entry will undone all that "appears" to have worked. What it does? Looking with regmon from sysinternals, appears that executing this object some defaults are searched in the registry to decide what will be done. It looks at HKCU for some "DefaultApplied" entries to know if the default was already applied. If "DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000, it looks what is the default (in HKLM). Follows the entries in HKLM that holds the defaults (they was already setted to turn off the visual effects). Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; Adjust to get better performance. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\AnimateMinMax] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ComboBoxAnimation] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\CursorShadow] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\DragFullWindows] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\DropShadow] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 "DefaultByAlphaTest"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\FontSmoothing] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 "DefaultByFontTest"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListBoxSmoothScrolling] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListviewAlphaSelect] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 "DefaultByAlphaTest"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListviewShadow] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 "DefaultByAlphaTest"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListviewWatermark] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 "DefaultByAlphaTest"=dword:00000000 "DefaultByFontTest"=dword:00000000 "MinimumMEM"=dword:00000000 "MinimumCPU"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\MenuAnimation] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 "DefaultByAlphaTest"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\SelectionFade] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 "DefaultByAlphaTest"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\TaskbarAnimations] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 "DefaultByAlphaTest"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\Themes] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\TooltipAnimation] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 "DefaultByAlphaTest"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\WebView] "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 After applied this, when a new profile is created the defaults above will be setted. Regards. Edmundo Valle Neto