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Does anyone know how to set hardware acceleration to full in Windows 2003 unattended?

I allready tried to search the registry using tools like RegMon or RegShot. But it seems like the information on hardware acceleration is not stored in the registry. Anyone know where windows stores these values?

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Right... It's that Properties -> Settings -> Advanced -> Troubleshoot --> Hardware Acceleration thing. But I want to activate / set it to full unattended. So I need to know where this information is stored... registry? Could you help? :)

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:cry: I had not seen that it was 2003, totally thinking that its xp

ok here are some registry values to be DELETED

its for xp

HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\GraphicsDrivers\DisableUSWC
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\GraphicsDrivers\DisableUSWC
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\DisableUSWC

delete these to enable write cache.

delete these babies for enabling acceleration

HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Video\{67F3F09B-CA88-4DA0-A69D-0F82A6085E39}\0000\Acceleration.Level: 0x00000005
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Video\{67F3F09B-CA88-4DA0-A69D-0F82A6085E39}\0000\Acceleration.Level: 0x00000005
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{67F3F09B-CA88-4DA0-A69D-0F82A6085E39}\0000\Acceleration.Level: 0x00000005

those random nums should be same

u have to restart for write cache i'm not sure about the accel

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:cry:  I had not seen that it was 2003, totally thinking that its xp

ok here are some registry values to be DELETED

its for xp

HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\GraphicsDrivers\DisableUSWC
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\GraphicsDrivers\DisableUSWC
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\DisableUSWC

delete these to enable write cache.

delete these babies for enabling acceleration

HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Video\{67F3F09B-CA88-4DA0-A69D-0F82A6085E39}\0000\Acceleration.Level: 0x00000005
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Video\{67F3F09B-CA88-4DA0-A69D-0F82A6085E39}\0000\Acceleration.Level: 0x00000005
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{67F3F09B-CA88-4DA0-A69D-0F82A6085E39}\0000\Acceleration.Level: 0x00000005

those random nums should be same

u have to restart for write cache i'm not sure about the accel

Thanks for your interest but this doesn't do it. These "random numbers" do not equal my registry entries. DisableUSWC is not even included in my registry...

Maybe these numbers depend on the device installed but somewhere a default value for hardware acceleration must be stored. I cannot find it :cry:

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Is there no registry solution to this at all?

Searched the forums (but it would help a lot more to find

this if this topic said "Server 2003" and not "win2003" :})

It seems to depend on the display adapter that is in the system?

If that is the case, I guess it is impossible to turn the hardware

acceleration up to full with a registry tweak? Hmmmm, OK then

the next question is - what command or what exe in system32

will bring up the screen:

Right click Desktop then...

Properties > Settings [tab] > Advanced [button] > Troubleshoot [tab]

If I can find which exe to run, or a function in a DLL or something,

from a command line to at least bring up the "Troubleshoot" screen,

I can write an AutoIt script then and hey, I will give it away here, lets

solve this stupid problem once and for all!

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ok, on my Server 2003 machine with default acceleration the reg entry dword value was 4.

Found as above but in {B1A73194-13C4-49F4-A275...} as Acceleration.Level

Changing the slider on the props/settings tab change the dword value to 0.

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