Delete Confirmation

[jrzycrim]

I take that back it changed start menu to old style and dumped the icons back on desktop. It did turn off Display Delete Confirmation though. I guess you need to get it the way you want and export key then.

Weird. I don't use the classic start menu. I've used that for some time now and haven't had that problem. Even tested that key before I posted. I manually set the delete confirmation and then applied that tweak. Not sure what the problem is.

[maxXPsoft]

Easy enough

I use the new but some don't, heres export of both with Delete Confirmation off and on. So just set things the way you like and export the key.

I see the only thing changing is the 5th set from 37 to 33 so from looking at your post 37 is off.

"ShellState"=hex:24,00,00,00,37,a8,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\

01,00,00,00,0d,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00

"ShellState"=hex:24,00,00,00,33,a8,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\

01,00,00,00,0d,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00

But whats stranger is their post above shows 3C there. May be wrong but C may mean 3 in Binary or too many 12 oz curls right now, i can write it in Vb but i haven't looked that closely at it.

[imthemp3king]

I tested it, and it did set the Desktop and Start Menu back to Classic. I used this code

;Disable Delete Confirmation (Recycle Bin)[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]"ShellState"=hex:24,00,00,00,37,88,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\01,00,00,00,0d,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00

I'm curious, did you test this during an unattended install or did you just merge it into your existing registry?

[jrzycrim]

Very Strange... I do have that as part of my unnattended install. As far as testing that before I posted, I did just merge that into the regestry after setting the delete confirmation on. It didn't change anything back to classic, however.

The only thing I can think of is maybe the theme file I load during installation is changing it back to the new style menu/desktop. Or possibly I have something else in my registy tweaks that is doing it. I'll have to look at my reg file...

Cheers,

Jim

[jrzycrim]

Easy enough

I use the new but some don't, heres export of both with Delete Confirmation off and on. So just set things the way you like and export the key.

I see the only thing changing is the 5th set from 37 to 33 so from looking at your post 37 is off.

"ShellState"=hex:24,00,00,00,37,a8,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\

  01,00,00,00,0d,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00

"ShellState"=hex:24,00,00,00,33,a8,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\

  01,00,00,00,0d,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00

But whats stranger is their post above shows 3C there. May be wrong but C may mean 3 in Binary or too many 12 oz curls right now, i can write it in Vb but i haven't looked that closely at it.

I'm sure that this will vary from system to system depending on a users particular settings. Of course, I have no clue what the actual numbers represent.

C is 12 in hexadecimal, which is how these values are represented.

So, as you suggest, each user should export that key for their own system. Beyond that, I don't know.

Edit: I did find this page that relates:

XP Start Menu Style

They mention the following reg key:

Hive:  HKEY_CURRENT_USER

Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

Name: ForceClassicControlPanel

Type: REG_DWORD

Value: 1

I tested this out on my system and Rebooted. It didn't make a difference.

[maxXPsoft]

HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

This is what I have its set by policy

[jrzycrim]

HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

This is what I have its set by policy

LOL! I just took a peak at gosh's site and tried this based on the Install4.inf.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

"ConfirmFileDelete"=dword:00000000

This seems to work much better then mucking about with shellstate.

Great site gosh.

[gosh]

Thanks. I'm surprised you used my file, you seemed happy with that shellstyle.

-gosh

[jrzycrim]

Not exactly happy. For whatever reason, the shellstate tweak worked for me. I just wasn't sure how to apply your method until I actually looked at that inf file. Your method is definitely cleaner. Should work for anybody without all the classic menu fuss.

Cheers,

[imthemp3king]

For whatever reason I am unable to get this to apply during unattended setup.

;Disable Delete Confirmation (Recycle Bin)[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]"ConfirmFileDelete"=dword:00000000

I added that to my registry tweaks file that gets applied at the t-12 stage and for the most part, all of my registry settings get applied to the admin account and all other accounts used to access the PC. This is what was listed as being in an INF file that was taken from Gosh's site. Is this something that can be applied using this method (.reg file)?

[maxXPsoft]

ConfirmFileDelete doesn;t work here either at all.

I'd go back to Shellstate under

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]

and just export your key after you get it set the way you want. Then use that in the Unattend