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If "Default User" is the profile template used to create new users, what is "C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile"? Also, is HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT the "default User" NTUSER.DAT? Many thanks for any help. EDIT: Re my previous post: I think some settings didn't work because the inf file data type entry was 0x00020002, which I believe has the "no clobber" bit flag set so that it will not change the value if it exists. I changed it to 0x00020000 and it worked this time. However, a lot of folders were created in the original locations as well.

@GreenMachine OK thanks. Most settings work when imported except the visual effects which I disable most of. Things like animated windows, shadows, fades and slides... that sort of thing. I tried changing some settings in the HIVEDEF.INF before building the CD. I changed some shell folder locations and again, some worked, some didn't.

jbm, Thanks a lot, I'll give it a go then. At the moment I've got a more critical problem where I get an error during setup: "can't load a file needed for setup" or something similar. I'ts driving me nuts at the moment. Thanks again.

@locobox Sorry I didn't reply to this, I got sidelined and I haven't tried it yet. @all Is there any problem loading the default registry hive and adding settings from the cmdlines.txt stage of setup? Many thanks. EDIT: I suppose there is no way to load the hive then. Maybe the answer is to edit the HIVEDEF.INF file directly beforehand. any problems doing this?

A quote from ms Everyone clear on that? Unbelievable.

@locobox You know, I thought I'd be flooded with replies pointing to something quite obvious. I still haven't got it to work -- glad I'm not the only one. EDIT: Perhaps it only happens to forum members with 'box' in their names

@jbm Quite sure. I have reg files for different things like services, visual effects, Taskbar & Start Menu etc. Still, I did a search though all the files for one of the settings that didn't work just to make sure, and it only appears in one file. I just don't understand it. Thanks again.

@Dahi I'm calling a .cmd file that then calls any reg files it finds. @jbm I have that setting at the top of one of my reg files (Visual Effects.reg). Thanks for trying though. @all Any ideas welcome.

@jbm and @all I'm really confused now. I just checked the install again and it seems that some of the current user tweaks 'are' working, while others are not. Example. This didn't work: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics] "MinAnimate"="0" Nor this: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "DragFullWindows"="0" Whereas others like this did: ;--------------------------------------- ; control panel -- display as a menu ;--------------------------------------- [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "Start_ShowControlPanel"=dword:00000002 Any ideas?

@jbm I appreciate your help, but if it were the batch command that was wrong then none of the tweaks would have been applied. As it is, it's just the current user ones. Thanks anyway.

I tried again with regedit /s and still none of the current user tweaks took. I tried creating a new account after installation as well and still no tweaks were applied. The local machine settings were applied. Has anyone any idea what I'm doing wrong? cmdlines.txt: "tweaks.cmd" "useraccounts.cmd" tweaks.cmd: for %%i in ("TWEAKS\*.reg") do ( regedit /s "%%i" ) Many thanks.

@DigeratiPrime That's what I did so I must have done something else wrong as the settings didn't take. Thanks for confirming that this is the right way to do it, I'll try again. EDIT: Ah, I see what I've done. I used reg import instead of regedit /s. Don't ask me why. Thanks again.

Well I must say I am surprised. I thought this was going to be one of those easy questions, but it seems as though no-one knows the answer. Isn't anybody adding custom registry tweaks to their unattended CDs to, say, change or remove their wallpaper for example? This seems very strange.

This is really bugging me now. How do I add user specific registry entries during setup? I've tried running a batch file from cmdlines.txt with both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and .DEFAULT entries but none of the settings take. Thanks for any help.

Thanks a lot Coolsights2000. Just to be sure, Can I create an account straight after adding the entries to HKEY_CURRENT_USER without rebooting?