GrofLuigi

I like to think of some of these services as "pairs" or "groups" (regardless of the dependencies) and set their start state equal for all of them. You can learn something more about the groups in the dependencies tab, but it's not always accurate. For example, Lanmanworkstation is kind of a sibling of Lanmanserver. They both are used in MIcrosoft Networking (file and printer sharing). It would make no sense to have one started and the other not (except in some marginal high-security situation, where you maybe would want to hide something from your users/slaves). Their third sibling is Browser. Netbios over TCP (or whatever it's name was, I'm not on XP right now) is also their relative. If you use file/printer sharing, you enable them all and have no headaches, it's that simple. Another example is ALG. It serves (rough approximate explanation) to punch holes through Windows Firewall (legitimate ones, although holes can be punched in WF very easily, and every other aplication does that even without it). So it would make no sense to use ALG without WF, while the other way around... I have not tested. Probably could do without, but it always bothers me to see it manual and started, so I let it have it its way and set it to automatic - on computers where I use WF, which is very rare. Again, from memory, another group is Com+ Event System, System Event Notification and... I forgot which one, maybe WMI (but WMI is also associated with some others). Remote Access Connection Manager and Remote Access Auto Connection Manager (that was easy ), but also Telephony. They usually start each other. SSDP Discovery and/or Universal Plug and Play Device Host - if you use UPNP. By the way, even if you don't, one of them always gets started by itself no matter what, so I must set it to disabled. And so on and so on... Ask about any service, I have investigated most of them and roughly know what they are for. GL

It reminds me of this... GL

1. Good old Font Thing (works on XP) 2. Lately I use ttfviewer Total Commander plugin for previewing fonts. I think both fullfill all of your needs, except... I don't understand the second criterium - do you need to compare two fonts or non-installed fonts (is the keyword in your sentence comparison or NON-installed? ) If the need is comparison, I just open two instances (windows) of the program, position them on the same place on screen and switch between them. *Edit: of course, they both can preview non-installed fonts. *Edit 2 : Font thing can preview multiple fonts in a page, it that's what you meant. GL

You mean to say Windows waits for Protected Storage on boot? I've never seen anything like that. I consider Protected Storage to be well-behaved if set to Manual on every XP and 7 versions (service pack levels) I have tried so far. It starts when needed (when IE or Outlook is started). If they are not started, it doesn't start. Maybe it doesn't stop by itself, but I think that's irrelevant. But maybe Windows waits for something else on boot. It's usually the network to come alive. Google for the following keywords: "synchronous group policy" "WaitForNetwork" ("Fast Logon Optimization") and check this. I admit I've seen long boot delays after tweaking, but they were solved with more tweaking . Only in one case with a laptop which had many network adapters (two wired, wireless and bluetooth) the waiting was unavoidable (I suspect the proprietary bluetooth stack). GL

DiskView or this maybe? * Edit: Found something more GL

Is this an actual file you used with nLite? It's very different than usual, many names are different and look like translations, sections are out of order... Anyway, try not to remove that many services. GL

1. You worked with very old version of .net framework (without service pack). While it's not a requirement, newer version might work better. 2. Maybe Defragmenter is needed for Bootvis (you removed it). 3. I think WMI is also needed for Bootvis (you did not remove it, but maybe you disabled the service). 4. Check your prefetching (the registry value EnablePrefetcher). If I read Nlite's Last Session correctly, you enabled only boot prefetching. Maybe boot+program prefetching is needed for Bootvis. This can be easily corrected now. * edit : maybe this can help. GL

Wouldn't the simplest solution be to grant ourselves full privileges under the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SECURITY\Policy\Accounts\S-1-5-21-645709764-2570854657-2333822770-500\Privilgs or whatever the SID of our account is? But one has to figure out first what the format of the key is, or, if brave enough, to copy the registry value from another overprivileged account. I imagine it as a quick guerilla operation: Change permissions, get in, change value, get out, restore permissions. What do you guys think about that? GL

Very slightly bettered, I'm posting it here in case anyone ever needs it. Now it prints the offending line in the dialog box and puts it in the clipboard, so it will be ready for searching. Line count is tricky, and I couldn't find a solution, because I guess Word paginates, so there is no absolute line count, or nowhere to be found easily. At the end there is a weird If... Endif statement because without it, the macro bombs out if there is no offending line. Sub CountQualifiedLines() Dim CharCount As Integer Dim tCount As Integer Dim LineCount As Integer Dim Qualifier As String Dim DaLine As String Dim MyData As DataObject Set MyData = New DataObject Qualifier = InputBox("Enter minimum line length:", "Line Length", 1) tCount = ActiveDocument.ComputeStatistics(wdStatisticLines) Selection.HomeKey wdStory Do While tCount > 0 Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdLine, Extend:=wdExtend CharCount = Selection.Characters.Count tCount = tCount - 1 If CharCount > Qualifier Then LineCount = LineCount + 1 DaLine = Selection End If Selection.Collapse wdCollapseStart Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdLine, Count:=1 Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdLine, Extend:=wdExtend Loop Selection.HomeKey wdStory MsgBox "There are " & LineCount & " qualified lines, line " & DaLine If DaLine = "" Then MyData.SetText "" MyData.PutInClipboard Else MyData.SetText DaLine MyData.PutInClipboard End If End Sub

Devxexec works very well. It can launch cmd.exe or regedit.exe as Trusted Installer or as System. I don't really need anything more for my sabotages against the system. GL

Thank you, I will try it. GL

The version I had (found) crashed for me. GL

Does such a thing exist? Preferably like regshot, which I don't think can "see" the registry from native x64 view. Requirements: 1. Free (not mandatory, but preferred) 2. To work in two stages: 1. snapshot registry and filesystem; wait; 2. snapshot registry and filesystem again 3. To be aware of x64 and Windows7 registry and filesystem redirections (mandatory). I don't like the newer versions of Total Uninstall at all, I think they are focused on other things and became too complex. I haven't tried Revo Uninstaller or similar programs yet, but from their description I conclude this also isn't their focus (two-stage snapshots). GL

That would be no different than current situation - they exist and they are empty. I made a .reg file to undo changes, but as far as I can see, all of the updates are different. For example, some restore tablet (ink) CLSIDs with empty keys. The bloat is unbelievable. GL

I'm screwed. The information is inside manifests in WinSxS. (Most of) the listed values above belong to IE, so with every cumulative update they will get restored. Also other updates reinstall whatever they like. Windows 7 really really really doesn't want you to walk astray from defaults. :realmad: GL

You mean like this? (click on Attachment1) I think you need to set the value "Shell Icon BPP" to something other than 16. I would try 24, 32 and 8 (in that order). It was counterintuitive, higher value brought older icons. Clear icon cache and restart Explorer (or reboot) in between. This is from memory, so I might have gotten something wrong. Or just use TweakUI 2.10 for XP anyway... (direct link). Just go directly to the last tab, do "rebuild icons" and pray... GL

Yeah, that's not it. It's about physical corruption, and this feature "repairs" when it sees something it doesn't like. GL

Well, I'm not that good at scripting to find out if the first link contains the part that I need or how to extract it. It seems to me it has hardcoded values, but I might be wrong. The second link lists the changes someone/some program did. I want to do something like muicache does, at first just to see the descriptions, and later maybe to replace them. Not necessarily to kill muicache (but I will try... Soon B) ). Additionally, I want to find a quick way to read these resources which are in many places in Windows, not only in MUI descriptions/strings/whatever they are. I think they are also in .lnk files and elsewhere. GL

I guess they are MUI names. For example, under the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip] there are values: "Description"="@%SystemRoot%\system32\tcpipcfg.dll,-50003" "DisplayName"="@%SystemRoot%\system32\tcpipcfg.dll,-50003" I want to: 1. See the strings. 2. Maybe replace them in some places. 3. (optionally) work from CLI - I just give it the parameter Can Resource Hacker do it? Does it even work on Windows 7? (such strings are present in other versions of Windows, but their number in 7 has increased.) Does anyone know if there is an automated software to replace in bulk? (with necessary checks, of course, maybe after visual inspection.) GL

I've mentioned this before, but now it really gets on my nerves and I want to know something more about it. It isn't system restore, it's happening every time Windows Modules Installer is started (for example, upon visiting Windows update and/or installing updates). Many registry keys that I've deleted previously, and (I suspect) some that should be gone forever through the way of removing components with WinToolkit, are restored, often with only empty keys and no values inside. This is a very small sample of what gets restored (these are useless registry keys that I don't want to ever see in my registry): The question is: where are the values stored? And the most important, is there a way to edit this list? Disabling fully the Windows Resource Protection (i guess this is a part of it) is out of question for me, because many things will stop to work (Windows Update, installing updates, possibly other things). And besides, I want to deal with the registry part only. Thank you for any information on this. GL

To these options, obviously, but i'm not sure in which order (although I can guess up to the third value). [image courtesy of -X-] GL

Would N/C mean Not Connected by any chance? GL

Many settings of flash player are stored in mms.cfg file. Even the recent installers create it when you answer during the install that you don't want to check for updates. You can google for "mms.cfg" to see many of the entries. GL

I have done all of them, even @sys:doesnotexist Please notice that my registry entry, which I found with Process Monitor... [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\cdrom\Parameters] Autorun=dword:0 ...is different than the most usually mentioned entry [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom] Autorun=dword:0 ...which doesn't work on 7 (in the sense that it doesn't stop the polling), but also doesn't break the CDRom driver. Additionally, Win7 also looks for the following key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\Parameters\Parameters] ...Which I've just created, so in the next boot tracing I'll see what it will look for underneath. It smells like a bug. GL

Yeah, but that's "that other Autorun" which is looking for autorun.inf. Microsoft isn't helping too much with the confusion either (in the past the two terms were used interchangably). I'm talking about the registry value in my first post, which is obviously at a driver level. As I said, the drive light shows it's polling the CD drive. So I want it to stop polling, which "the other autorun" can't do. GL