[Registry Tweaks, Part-1]

correct me if im wrong, but I think some of the values in "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer" are referenced in the group policy editor, whereas "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced" is at a lower level?  Think the keys in the former can be used to overwrite the later...

anyway the

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ControlPanelInMyComputer"=dword:00000001

doesn't work for me..

i don't know. you've got me on that one

thanks for trying that control panel one. i didn't think it would work, so i've marked it as "probably worthless"

[Registry Tweaks, Part-1]

looks like if i don't want anything i should set

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]

"UserPreferencesMask"=hex:00,00,00,00

??

[Registry Tweaks, Part-1]

I referenced these from shell32.dll -->

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ListviewAlphaSelect"=dword:00000000 - 30540, "Show translucent selection rectangle"
"ListviewShadow"=dword:00000000 - 30541, "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop"
"ListviewWatermark"=dword:00000000 - 30543, "Use a background image for each folder type"
"TaskbarAnimations"=dword:00000000 - 30530, "Slide taskbar buttons"

"StartMenuInit"=dword:00000002

theres a thread about this here --> http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=ST&f=70&t=20735

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"UserPreferencesMask"=hex:9e,3e,01,80

seems to control another set of visual effects as well, these links may be helpful in your understanding (but then again, you might already have come across them!)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techi...entry/55198.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/6232.asp

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideMyComputerIcons]
"{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000

just controls whether the Control Panel item shows up in "My Computer"

this is my set of tweaks to enable classic search...but the advanced part of it is never checked..a bugger I haven't figured out. maybe the pros can help us out ? 

;---------------------------------Windows Search-------------------------------------


;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
;Classic search, full path in title bar and address bar.
;Also Disables Search Dog
;Also opens each folder in the same window

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CabinetState]
"FullPath"=dword:00000001
"FullPathAddress"=dword:00000001
"Use Search Asst"="no"
"Settings"=hex:0c,00,02,00,1b,01,e7,77,60,00,00,00


;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
;Make Sure windows searches for all files (including those that are not registered)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex]
"FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions"=dword:00000000


;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
;Change Default Search Options (1 = ON, 0 = OFF)

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"SearchSystemDirs"=dword:00000001
"SearchHidden"=dword:00000001
"IncludeSubFolders"=dword:00000001
"CaseSensitive"=dword:00000000

i have down (i didn't get this on my own - i found it somewhere else) that this also shows control panel in my computer?

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]

"ControlPanelInMyComputer"=dword:00000001

this shows some clearly defined keys...

http://members.fortunecity.com/marskarthik/regwinme.htm

but notice they mostly all operate out of

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

and most of ours are

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]

it looks like the Policies ones (i assume that the ME ones are the same as XP, since i have a couple of them already) actually help enforce or disable the options to change back settings using dialog boxes and such.

wondering now if just using the Policies ones will set it how we want it -and- disable it from being changed.

if i find the energy today i actually want to create a full registry documentation engine. where it has the entire tree of everything so users can leave notes, caveats, etc, etc.

[Registry Tweaks, Part-1]

Hmm I don't know what version yours and mine IE are, but I don't have the

- Don't display online media content in the media bar - selected

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Media]

"SuppressOnlineContent"="yes"

The rest are actually in my list ..think you missed it

you know what they say, highly detailed work also leaves room for missing some details?

or at least i'm trying to make up some excuse for missing them originally:)

i have a normal windows XP w/ sp1 integrated + fully patched using windowsupdate IE6.

6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633

128 bit cipher

(don't ask me why it's saying xp sp2 already... i think someone's jumping the gun labeling some of the patches)

[trying to change the default icon for "my pictures]

bump. no help here?

oh, and i'd like to change the default view for "my pictures" and it's subfolders to be DETAILS view. including inside of Comdlg32 boxes...

[Registry Tweaks, Part-1]

i want to figure out what any of these correspond to... or any help clarifying the definitions (like what certain examples of the Desktop UserPrefsMask do for example...)

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]

"ListviewAlphaSelect"=dword:00000000

"ListviewShadow"=dword:00000000

"ListviewWatermark"=dword:00000000

"TaskbarAnimations"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]

"StartMenuInit"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]

"Filter"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]

"HideIcons"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]

"UserPreferencesMask"=hex:9e,3e,01,80

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideMyComputerIcons]

"{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000

also trying to trace the exact tweak to enable advanced classic search in explorer (not IE) - i have some leads but i hate this binary crap

[Registry Tweaks, Part-1]

hmm my last post didn't go through..

well i was saying that I know nothing about editing Hives, too advanced for a newbie like me   your tweak list is very impressive, I saw that it contained the entire list of windows explorer-->view tab tweaks, thought i've found a fellow obssessive tweak collector here hee, no offence intended!

anyways, here's the entire IE-->advanced tab...hope it's of some use to some people at least, comments welcome

nice but it's missing:

- Don't display online media content in the media bar - selected

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Media]

"SuppressOnlineContent"="yes"

- Enable Install on Demand (IE) - selected

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]

"NoJITSetup"=dword:00000000

- Enable Install on Demand (Other) - selected

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]

"NoWebJITSetup"=dword:00000000

- Enable Offline Items to be Synchronized - unselected

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Webcheck]

"NoScheduledUpdates"=dword:00000001

there, i looked up some missing ones (that i didn't read on the first scan of yours and i was still missing)

[Registry Tweaks, Part-1]

Hi, great list you got there 

I noticed you didn't list some of the tweaks you made a note of, did you deliberately leave it out or..?

I have the entire section of IE-->advanced options if you're interested.

sure why not.

and yes, some i left out because i didn't care to explicitly force them on or off by default

a couple are still blank (such as taskbar settings and the other binary type ones that are a pain) because i'm trying to find in all the numerous registry captures i've done the best one(s) to reference.

then i'm going to test it, heh

i really want to put these into my own HIVE file though - that would be the goal. the problem is, if i put these in a HIVE, it seems like IE settings and some explorer settings and such get created sometime after the HIVE files are read; i wonder if some things you can't put in HIVEs...

[Registry Tweaks, Part-1]

first i made a list of all the registry hacks, sorted them in excel, removed dupes, and trial and errored some.

some of them seemed to mess up the original point of the customizing - i wanted to default all folders to detail view, ALWAYS, and a few other basic things. but then i went overboard.

anyway, now i've taken a different approach. by establishing desired requirements FIRST, then looking up the registry settings for each one.

please note - some sections (especially towards the bottom) may have dupes or redundancy (i.e. keys in both HKLM and HKCU...) and any comments are appreciated, especially if you see some settings that must be applied at T-13, T-12, or are fine at runonceex ...

http://mikehost.com/~mike/tmp/windows.html

[Hotfixes For Windows XP Professional SP1]

actually

REG ADD %KEY%\065 /VE /D "Hotfix KB817778" /f

REG ADD %KEY%\065 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\install\hotfixes\windowsXP-KB817778-x86-ENU.exe /Q /O /N /Z" /f

now this does not work

it pops up the usage box again! hah.

wonder why it worked once and does not now.

EDIT: now this install, it did.

i wonder if order of command line parameters makes any difference. hrm.

oh well. if it fails on the NEXT try (and i'm not changing any of those command lines) i'll be baffled once more.

[trying to change the default icon for "my pictures]

i set d:\incoming to be the "my pictures" special folder -

however now whenever i access it or see it in explorer or anywhere the icon is the **** "my pictures" icon.

i know there's gotta be a registry hack to define what icon ties to what... or something.

or maybe a program that can alter it and i can regsnap it or compare the registry before/after?

any help or leads is appreciated; thanks.

[userprofile, my documents, etc...]

i think "my videos" isn't setup by default but it will work if you add it

search for "user shell folders" in your registry.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

here's how mine is setup, sans the videos one. these are keys/values inside of that ^

AppData = %USERPROFILE%\Application Data

Desktop = %USERPROFILE%\Desktop

Favorites = D:\My Documents\Favorites

NetHood = %USERPROFILE%\NetHood

Personal = D:\My Documents

PrintHood = %USERPROFILE%\PrintHood

Programs = %USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs

SendTo = D:\My Documents\Configs\SendTo

Start Menu = %USERPROFILE%\Start Menu

Startup = %USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Templates = %USERPROFILE%\Templates

Local Settings = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings

Local AppData = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data

Administrative Tools = %USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools

Recent = %USERPROFILE%\Recent

Cache = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

Cookies = %USERPROFILE%\Cookies

History = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\History

My Music = D:\My Documents\Music

[HKCU or HKU\.DEFAULT?]

yeah, i've been hunting around, i think i do have a few things mixed with HKLM and HKCU (duplication or misplacement)

however, i have taken some settings from virgin XP boxes so the datatypes and keys/locations are 100% correct.

i will be trying those on this trial, and i will only be using HKCU from now on... not HKU\.DEFAULT, from what it sounds like.

[Hotfixes For Windows XP Professional SP1]

@mike503

Sorry, I got you and RuNnaH confused on the XML bit. I thought you were the one posting the image, but either way it was the Neworking Pack. RuNnaH is using XPlode so his is XML. My bad..... but you are right on the kiss a$$ thing. There really isn't a need to post that But atleast Solid did learn his lesson from his mistake the last time he thought he was sure.

Did you get it working?

yes i did, thank you.

apparently i must not have ever put down the /O switch before (but believe me - i tried so many combinations and attempts i couldn't remember which ones i had tried; if i would have known it would be so troublesome i would have written down each trial, but i always thought "oh the next one will work")

i'm actually switching now to a runonceex method for the majority of things.

it appears my first trial of it skipped a ton of svcpack.inf entries... all of them were applied prior to this too. very odd. unless one of the runonceex things overwrote those files...

haven't had much time to investigate that one. only thing i changed was from using the start.cmd method to runonceex.cmd method to enter in the stuff into the registry.

[Hotfixes For Windows XP Professional SP1]

NEVER say to alanoll/GM/Wraith you're sure. thats the lesson i have learn here.... 

heh alanoll...... 

once again, i ask you to refrain from posting anything unless it's going to be useful.

[HKCU or HKU\.DEFAULT?]

see, i was doing it just to be on the safe side.

i.e.:

1) add tweaks.reg FIRST, just in case the "mike" user inherits the settings as-is when the add user command is issued

2) add user "mike"

3) add tweaks.reg AGAIN, just in case i need to make it stick...

however before all this i was not using RunOnceEx - so now i just need to figure out which regedits i can hack into the HIVE*.INF's manually, which i need to apply during t-13, and which can be applied anytime after that (perhaps during RunOnceEx...)

i've got over unique 600 tweaks i've captured from the thread(s) here, MSDN, and my own registry snooping. so it's a daunting task

[Interesting HotFix Switches]

Which is why I, and probably many others, take them and repackage them into iexpress packages with the switches built in.

I save them on my network, after testing, and then I no longer have to worry about which one uses which switch.

i wound up doing that with a couple of the hotfixes (although not the Q/KB ones, i did it for things like the sharepoint migration and msjavawu.exe because i could not get the normal executables to behave with command line switches)

i was thinking i might have to investigate using iexpress for q817778...

edit: no longer needed. q817778 works with the switches (must have been that missing /O or whatever) and runs perfect in runonceex.

[? question ?]

could this:

"A problem is preventing Windows to accurately checking the license for this computer. Error code:0x80004005".

be because it's trying to activate windows? or possibly one of the 3 programs (i don't believe any of those do any "license checking" though)

*perhaps* norton antivirus...

i'd try making sure in winnt.sif (at least for testing purposes) that autoactivate is NOT ="Y" - just to make sure it's not windows activation which is fouling you up.

[HKCU or HKU\.DEFAULT?]

they're as correct as i can tell.

i tried comparing them against existing machines, as well as looked up as many as i could on MSDN.

also reverse engineered some by taking snapshots of virgin XP boxes prior manual tweaking, and then comparing the registry to that virgin snapshot and capturing the diffs.

[HKCU or HKU\.DEFAULT?]

hmm.

i'm also thinking of editing the default HIVE*.INF files - i don't think i can get much more into the source than that.

i'm still listening to any replies about my first post, as well as any feedback on editing the HIVE files directly...

[Hotfixes For Windows XP Professional SP1]

I was missing the /O in the last set of switches.

My only guess is that you're doing something wrong. Sorry...

Sorry what was that again?

I knew it was the advanced networking package that caused the error, but you didn't read the post...

NOT SVCPACK.INF SUPPORTED - Anything shown below must not be processed by svcpack. Instead, these should be installed on first logon to process silent unattended installations of these updates.

But....then again, you did say you ran it from GUIRunOnce, but as I said, user error. It may be an error in the XML your using...never know. But that'd still be user error

Looks like I was right, right?

i'm not using XML. i'm not using xplode.

and no, i said i was missing it from THIS trial; not altogether.

i'm pretty sure i've used it in the past. like i said, i've tried using the type 1 and type 2 and my own investigation of -q -u -z or whatever, and none of them seemed to work.

i'm sure i included the /o in a past trial, we shall see if it works.

and FWIW, i copied all the command line switches originally from the HOWTO/thread examples. so it wasn't my personal fault of doing anything wrong; i blame it on the original documentation for this specific service pack. even microsoft's site example for it didn't work properly (IIRC) - so i had to try to take it into my own hands.

[HKCU or HKU\.DEFAULT?]

i'm having a problem getting some settings to "stick"

i apply them once before i do any net user adds.

then i apply them AFTER that. both in t-13.

THEN i apply them during GuiRunOnce even as well; yet some do not seem to stick even after that.

i even repeat them - i apply them to HKCU as well as HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT just in case... before i even add my first user.

yet some still do not stick.

will just adding it to HKCU during t-13 work? or should i be using HKU\.DEFAULT, or should i be adding to both?

[Hotfixes For Windows XP Professional SP1]

yeah, i was running it from guirunonce.

i was missing the /O in the last set of switches. i'll add that to this build and see if it makes any difference. pretty sure i've tried that before.

by the way, putting this line as the first [setupHotfixesToRun] in svcpack.inf applies this patch properly without needing to use it in guirunonce... i had problems with that one too, but this seems to work good (thanks to whomever i got this line from somewhere!)

[setupHotfixesToRun]

"Q832483.exe /C:""dahotfix.exe /q /n"" /q:a"

[Hotfixes For Windows XP Professional SP1]

I've attached an image that shows the error during T-12. It doesn't matter what file name is used, so that confirms what Alanoll already said. Apparently the problem seems to be coming from something that gets executed from inside the hotfix package. Installing it with RunOnceEx causes trouble as well, where QFECheck says that it needs to be reinstalled (which validates after doing a manual install and reboot).

this is exactly the screen that pops up.

no matter where i execute it, no matter what switches.

if anyone has got it to work, please paste your guirunonce line or svcpack line.

nobody has posted yet that it works with proof. just "i've done it in the past" which doesn't help me right now.

i meant to say "you're both wrong with some of your assumptions" -

"My only guess is that you're doing something wrong. Sorry... " was wrong.

"i guess he have Wm9 and is trying to install a hotfixes for Wm8.... " was wrong.

obviously the first one might have some merit, but it is pointless to post unless you're going to try helping.

like i said i've done it -as suggested- and even tried improvising with other things i've learned through this process, and -none- of them seem to work.

so, unless someone can show us proper switches or make your own .msi that somehow applies this properly (i was looking into that but this update seems to be really odd...) then any post here is useless regarding (KB|Q)817778.

[Hotfixes For Windows XP Professional SP1]

hi.

you're both wrong.

Q817778 (Switch: Same as "type 1" switches) (23rd July 2003)

Advanced Networking Pack for Windows XP - 1.21 MB

that is the one, and i've tried the suggested "type 1" switches as well.

go ahead, someone try it out on their CD. or someone show me how they launch it and that it doesn't popup ANYTHING. because it pops up a usage error no matter how i do it, as stated above (but it's a usage error AFTER it runs the installation up front... so it's a second embedded setup command it runs or something it seems. and looking at the .infs and such i see no place to modify anything that looks like it will help.)