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lolololol I done that and it takes maybe a millisecond to open Notepad either way, I don't notice any difference on XP. What are you running? NT, just a guess cause most Corps are still running that. We have a few 2000 and all time clocks and Office personnel have XP Pro. lol yes I remember those delays Back on a 486 50mhz SX running 3.1 WFW, nowadays we're talking milliseconds with XP. It grunts and wants to delete or it goes out and finds it in very short time. I'm not talking shortcuts to the Network or other computer's either by the way. My shortcuts are to applications installed to either %ProgramFiles%\APP I want A Quicklaunch or to another drive on my PC which remains the same since I'm formatting my C or D partition for my tests. These things work for Intended purposes. They also work for most the people who download and run my program that know what they are doing. I'm sorry Nois3 but I think that what you're saying is yesterday's news if you running XP.

hmm, It don't have to be RunoncEX Heres what I do to start something after the reboot. In this example I'm opening the Fonts folder which register's the Fonts I have added. Shouldn't be too hard to modify that to call your *.cmd file Just add it to your cleanup.cmd right before the Shutdown NOTICE: Its not RunoncEX but simply Runonce I have experimented and added like 10 things there as a test, all work just fine as long as they are correct Path's. This also goes to the Current User and can be applied to other Users. REG ADD HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Runonce /V RegisterFonts /D "%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,/root,%systemroot%\Fonts" BTW, The reason I don't use Runoncex is I have had occasions where certain software added something there and i don't want to Jack with it... Bing Bada Boom

This is what I do. Notice the HKCU which means for the Current User which is you. REG EXPORT of these 2 keys HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\SmallIcons I then merge them during Cleanup.cmd. After reboot Explorer looks the way I want it. I can care less if one key is not needed cause we talking of just a few bytes. It Works this way every time, maybe not in a VM cause I don't test with such garbage. I do actual Install's

Sure I set my Explorer Toolbar the way I like then export the reg key's for it.

Can't see that - do you also realize that it is off during the normal day for most? When you boot each day during the first couple minutes is when it creates an RP and then its virtually off unless called. Nothing running, no resources lost and it doesn't affect anything except maybe a few seconds, during my tests I seen typicaly 10-15 seconds but that was during boot only so no one knows the wiser because it was also doing the other boot things. I'd like to know what the devil you adding as audio that would need them 10-15 seconds, nothing I've heard I'm sure. I also know nothing is RUNNING during that boot time so whats the point? Ok but after the fact is not any good, it has to be running to be any good and as I said it work's in a limited mode.Yep some even remove it with methods. Thats their problem. I simply allready know that, that's why i gave you my reg stuff above to turn it off and enable it to be turned back on.At the time I was simply looking for something to turn it off/on all drive's and I did not want someone to have to reboot to make it happen and telling me that t did not work, it does, I think with my method's you can apply them and not the script and it's off after reboot. I'd have to test that.

When I tried Kishiro method and then turned it back on I don't get that using mine. When I set this up I wanted several things, disable it for all drives = WHY? cause that deletes all the Restore Points Immediate Gratification without Reboot necessary = WHY? To visually see that it was off [Windows Key] and [Pause] and then System Restore Tab Only with Kishiro method, not with mine I'd have to work up something given time to do it. It just involves the above reg things by me and a simple script.Personally I use System Restore because its gotten me out of a bind before but thats less these day's cause I recognize the crap before it happens to mess things up, I leave it running but limit the day's it keeps restore points which in turn limit's the HD space cause I know how to set it I also don't monitor anything but my system drive. It works and I am surprised that it does.

Heres another pic to show you what I'm talking about. http://maxxpsoft.com/media/maxxpsoft_restore.jpg

Perhaps you not reading this right. What I do does exactly that. Lol its a combination of those things including turning the service off.What I do is just like going in and checking disable for all drive's but its immediate and don't need to reboot. Btw http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...Q295299&sd=tech is what I used to disable all drives, I just made it do all instead of 1

works fine for me on XP here

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=51753 might be an option for some.

Yzöwl that last one worked for me perfectly But I only have 1 user on this PC

%SystemDrive% = C:

Look's like an XP CD root to me They must change a lot of files within. take a lot of work on your part .

Another thing if you wanted immediate results is you have to search through all drives and turn them off This is not complete and may not work for you cause its within my app Dim lDrives&, xZ&, i%, iMaxDrives%, sType$, sDriveLetter$, SRP, eSRP Set SRP = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\default:SystemRestore") lDrives = GetLogicalDrives() iMaxDrives = Int(Log(lDrives) / Log(2)) For i = 0 To iMaxDrives sDriveLetter = Chr$(i + 65) xZ = GetDriveType(sDriveLetter & ":\") Select Case xZ If xZ = 3 Then eSRP = SRP.disable(sDriveLetter & ":\") End If Next i

BTW if you want that to be immediate then you also can open a cmd prompt and issue these 2 things NET STOP srservice NET STOP sr Yes thats manual but I am not sure if it would work unless an application called it. I haven't toyed with that. Nope not that I see, done ran it twicePersonally I Don't disable it I only limit it, I set in my WinNT.sif RestorePointLife = 7 days cause you should know whether something wrong within that time and it saves space, also CheckpointCalendarFrequency = 1 day in between. System Restore does work and it can even be called from recovery console

supertoast I think thats wrong Ive studied this a lot and with my tweaking application I do it this way to disable on all drive's. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore] "DisableSR"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sr] "Start"=dword:00000004 ;It is a sertvice so to disable [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sr] "ImagePath"=\SystemRoot\System32\DRIVERS\sr.sys << When its Disabled otherwise it equals this>> System32\DRIVERS\sr.sys

Another thought, first user created on my XP machine at the very end of SID is S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxxx-1004 perhaps this could be ADMIN or either first user? If they were using same name then read the ProfileImagePath and extract name from it maybe then you know you got the right one. I'm not using cmd's for my application, what I do is it save's the Current User SID to an ini during UACD Creation and then when it's called in setup I read the reg into a tmp and do a Replace(OldSid,NewSid) -> spit it out Oleg_II Yes, but you do need the current Sid in case it changed

Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Protected Storage System Provider\S-1-5-21-xxxxxx is the first and only place I find my SID in reg under HKCU, next place is in HKLM ? is does this key Protected Storage System Provider exist all the time even when someone does some removes. I would think it does. Next place to pull it from would be HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList Would have to parse that for correct user. BTW Boardbabe, before I never could get the exact thing you want to stick so I swapped my keyboard with another of my PCs. I can do this now but not in a cmd

Novi I edited it so look again This is the simple method and it works. If you have your I-net connected when you do this it will go out and try to update. Me I choose to disconnect the Lan when I'm installing.

I386\COMPDATA I386\WIN9XUPG You cannnot delete those if you want recovery console. Add to Runoncex.cmd like this Color 0A @echo off SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "UnattendXP - Installing Applications" /f REG ADD %KEY% /v Flags /t REG_DWORD /d "20" /f REM Adding Recovery Console REG ADD %KEY%\1005 /VE /D "Recovery Console Installing" /f REG ADD %KEY%\1005 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Install\Recovery.cmd" /f and Recovery.cmd @echo off FOR %%d IN (c: d: e: f: g: h: i: j: k: l: m: n: o: p: q: r: s: t: u: v: w: x: y: z:) DO IF EXIST %%d\WIN51 SET CDROM=%%d %CDROM%\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons /unattend Exit EDIT: Thats my layout and it works

Oleg_II I remember reading and using that awhile back when I used Outhouse, now I don't and I'm sure that can be modified to work as a script for Boardbabes key. I've done it myself in a different way in an upcoming version of my program.

Be easier if you just click the 2 links he gives and then upper left of Adobe click the Save a Copy.

I've noticed some software starting to write to the reg down there myself. Guess what's needed is something to parse the reg and get current SID and change your provided reg file on the fly. I've been looking at that myself. The SID can change and I don't know why it does it sometime's and then occasionally stay's the same. Maybe maybe not, need to be carefull with this one if you are creating new User's or you may end up with bogus User named with same name and the computer name attached at end. EX: maxxpsoft.1234567 in Docs and SetsI know with Docs and Sets this can happen so I changed my method's for copying/install them.

@darkstonexa Hes on vacation right now and keep that dll available so maybe you can post it somewhere he can work with it or a link. The ones I d/l used to do that but they don't anymore. I haven't tried any new ones lately.

Nois3 What happens when XP encounters a shortcut thats invalid? Gives you that stuff about removing it or either goes off looking for Target and attempts to correct it. That don't happen with this, never has in as I said about 2 years If the Target is still there then it simply opens it and adjusts anything needing adjusted. I have several pointing to different drive's and they work like a charm. Its the same as modding dlls and pratically all the files on a setup which has been occuring here long before you or I came here and it will continue to happen in a quest for that knowledge. Thats what Msfn is all about.