ByThor

Thank you for your reply, it will help a lot. I have had that discussion with other people I work with, but my feelings are, that a home system is a home system and a work system is a work system. All the complaints I hear about slow systems now, just wait until they have to put up with a resource hog like vista. I work on a military network and we have to beg borrow and steel to get new equipment. I administer the domain using a dell m70 laptop. The users have better systems than I do, but have no idea how to use them. If I hd my druthers, I would put dumb terminals on their desks and be done with it. Again, thanks for the help and please excuse the rant. (Boy I feel better.)

I have been searching for ways to remove the bubblegum in Vista and Office 2007. I will have to roll this out and would like systems that don't look like a video game. My XP systems have had all the XP bubblegum turned off. Can anyone direct me to a good site or thread for turning off all that nonessential BS that is loaded. When "M$ Windows" first came out, the whole selling point was that once you use one Windows program you have used them all. This has been the case until now. When you are dealing with 2000 or 3000 users that can't find their keyboards and mice without help, this is going to be a nightmare. Maybe I am just a dinosaur and prefer to work on a system that is made for work instead of looking like a video game. Any assistance will be very appreciated. I have searched "vista customizing", "vista customization", "vista tweaks", "unneeded vista services", "windows classic in vista" and a few others that are way out there. If I am barking up the wrong tree, I apologize.

If you are using a different model of USB Mouse/Keyboard, the drivers will not have loaded yet. The same thing if you change the USB ports. When hardware is loaded to a USB port, that is the port it is loaded on. If you plug the same hardware into another USB port you will need to load the drivers for the hardware to work on the new USB port. If the user is not an admin of the system, the drivers will not load for new Hardware. We have a USB KVM that is used when loading systems, but when they are given to the users and setup with thier USB Mouse and Keyboard, an admin has to Remote Desktop into the system and the drivers will load with no problem. There is no problem with the Hardware, but how M$ controls the Hardware installation. Hardware can't load until someone logs in.

One of NLites tweaks is to disable the "Press any key". I had the same problem and after no longer checking that tweak I was ok. Double check your NLite settings, I'm sure you'll find it.

i have been a lurker on this board for over a year and thought maybe it was time to say hello and try to add my 2 cents when i can. i would like to extend my thanks to everyone who donates their time and effort here. you make my job easier and my co-workers happy with the cds/dvds i build.

The "Reg Add" is the command line method and the other one is a registry import to be used in the regtweaks.reg file.