mike503

you mean the reboot AFTER guirunonce runs? i did apply the reg file again, during the guirunonce first boot - and it appeared to have fixed a couple things (dropshadows on menus and cleartype stuff, which have simple registry keys but didn't seem to work properly applying them twice during cmdlines.txt -and- guirunonce ...) it didn't fix this though. this stupid detail view will drive me bonkers.

can someone help me with Q817778.exe? i've tried it with both guirunonce -and- svcpack.inf. i've tried -q -u -z, i've tried /u /q /z, i've tried /quiet and those switches. when i do it on my already-installed windows i can get it silent. however, no matter what switches i try, it does the install silently except it pops up with a usage dialog - it's almost like it has a package or command run INSIDE of the package that has the wrong usage inside of it. anyone have any pointers or anything you can help with possibly?

raja i'm having the same issues. what keys are you using for details view? i've tried a variety - even applying the registry settings during cmdlines.txt -and- at guirunonce, just to try it, to both HKEY_CURRENT_USER -and- HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT before, and after i create the account i actually use. just to help push it in even harder. yet it still defaults to icons AND won't save it when i try to apply detail view using the conventional steps! it's driving me NUTS. perhaps i can take your setting and try it on my own so i can try applying it at all the points i apply it, and see if it takes for me. this is p***ing me off a lot - wish microsoft would have made a simple DWORD of showiconview or something. this is one of the main unresolved issues i have with my unattended CD...

ok. i've got the framework for an application built; i have all my tweaks in a database and a way to output them properly using a php script. however, a few are specific to my needs, and need to be called out that way. i also went through and looked at MSDN for every single one i could find in a specific group to find the real nice "description" of what it does and such. i want to get the app online though so i can get the general public to voice off whether or not some tweaks are good, adding in others, helping classify misclassified ones, etc. i did a pretty good job, there should be no dupes (or maybe only a couple left) and tried my best to confirm all the data before committing it. question: if i have numeric data like a 1 in REG_SZ, and the field really "wants" a DWORD of 1, is that the same thing? or is datatype truly important. obviously you can't put text in a DWORD, but sometimes numbers (even boolean type stuff) is in a REG_SZ field. just wondering. here's the output of my first run today. i will add on better classifications and groupings and hopefully the ability to solicit feedback about specific ones to either modify their value, change description, or remove unneeded/bad ones. i will also add classifications like "memory" "filesystem" "third party" etc. - and then also a classification for generic setting or personal setting. hopefully then, i can have a script where you can pick and choose the components you want and generate a .reg file off of that. for example, if you don't want some of your special folders on D:\ like i have mine setup in the file below, you'd be able to skip that. http://mikehost.com/~mike/tmp/tweaks.txt please note, i applied this to a vanilla XP box and now i get an error on logon: "cannot load the user's profile" .. "not enough storage is available to process this command" so, one of these is messed up. possibly one of the memory ones, i think i aimed it more towards my athlon 64 machine - and i tried these tweaks on my p4 2.4 machine. any feedback is appreciated - just email me mike@mike2k.com, and i'll have more information up soon on the registry engine.