Registry Tweaks, Part-1

[JPamplin]

Outlook data folder! Finally! Mac, you da man!

I'm incorporating the XP version and I'll tell you how it goes, but I'm also wondering - how to set up a default Outlook profile (with just the PST file in your custom folder). Perhaps it doesn't matter, as it will be created the first time the user opens Outlook, but I'd still like to know.

Thanks again!

JP

[Professor Frink]

What happens if you apply that during cmdlines.txt, and then install Office later? Will an Office reg tweak still hold?

And if anyone has any tweaks for Office 2000 (particularly that PST one), I'd really appreciate it.

[Professor Frink]

Here are two new Adobe Reader one I found. I know this one has been posted before:

;-----Disable Adobe EULA-----
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\6.0\AdobeViewer]
"EULA"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\6.0\AdobeViewer]
"EULA"=dword:00000001

But here are two other ones:

;-----Disable Adobe automatic updates-----
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\6.0\Updater]
"iUpdateFrequency"=dword:00000000

;-----Turn off Adobe splash screen-----
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\6.0\Originals]
"bDisplayAboutDialog"=dword:00000000

[JPamplin]

XtremeMaC,

I just did a clean build with your Outlook tweak (using Office XP SP3), and it DID create an Outlook.pst file in the folder I specified. But unfortunately, Outlook also comes up with a dialog box at startup (but it DOES start up):

IDENTITY SWITCH CANCELLED

The current identity could not be changed because one of the applications was unable to switch.  Close any open dialog boxes in other applications before trying again.

Further, Outlook Express has the same message and won't even start.

Any thoughts? Perhaps this is an Office 2003-only tweak?

Thanks,

JP

UPDATE: Sorry, my bad. Your tweak works fine for Office XP. I had some other registry tweaks in there that was messing up the works.

[DarkBringer]

@ laura:

See page 35 of this thread.

[XtremeMaC]

p 35?

I've only 13 pages (30 posts per page)

@JPamplin I haven't seen that type of error on my install

I dunno if its office 11 stuff..

[DarkBringer]

Oh.

My resolution is 800x600 and I have 39 pages, 9 posts per page.

[neophyte]

Here's one I found, that may be usefull to some people...

You can disable the OS2 Posix / Posix subsystems that gets run by Windows by removing the following entries from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\SubSystems

Delete these entries:

Optional

Posix

This requires a reboot.

Personally, I'm not entirely sure what else it will affect in Windows, but I'm trying it out anyway

[Professor Frink]

Is there a tweak to increase the number of folders that Explorer "remembers" the settings for? It's 100 (I think), and I'd like to increase that number.

I'm pretty sure I read one somewhere once, but I forget.

[Aaron]

Is there a tweak to increase the number of folders that Explorer "remembers" the settings for? It's 100 (I think), and I'd like to increase that number.

I'm pretty sure I read one somewhere once, but I forget.

;Removes Folder settings and then increases the remembering of folder settings from 400 to 1000
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU]
"BagMRU Size"=dword:000003e8
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU]
"BagMRU Size"=dword:000003e8

[Professor Frink]

Thanks! But what should I expect that to do to the rest of the folder settings? Will everything just be at a default level?

[Aaron]

If you want to preserve existing folder settings, remove:

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags]

[gosh]

That would reset folder settings back to defaults, aaron. I think you mean export those registry keys, then import them after you reinstall windows.

SP2 by default remembers a large number of folders, over 400. You don't need the reghack on sp2, you do need it on sp1 or lower.

-gosh

[Professor Frink]

Yeah, I don't want to undo any folder settings. And 400 is pretty good. AND it won't be too long before SP2 is final.... I think I'll wait.

Thanks guys!!!

[FthrJACK]

How to hide hard drives and restrict access to them using the Regsitry.

Dont confuse this as unhiding a drive thats hidden in the MBR, this is in windows only. So you will still need to use something such as PM8 or another disk manager to unhide that as its nothing to do with the OS.

Log in as the user you want to limit access with. go:

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

Create a Dword value called NoDrives - its value will corespond to which drive(s) need to be hidden.

A: 1, B: 2, C: 4, D: 8, E: 16, F: 32, G: 64, H: 128, I: 256, J: 512, K: 1024, L: 2048, M: 4096, N: 8192, O: 16384, P: 32768, Q: 65536, R: 131072, S: 262144, T: 524288, U: 1048576, V: 2097152, W: 4194304, X: 8388608, Y: 16777216, Z: 33554432

With these same decimal values you can also do a different tweak, you can leave the drive letter visible, but make it so the user cant view the content of the drive and also stop them using - Run, Map Network Drive, or DIR.

Create a new Dword value called NoViewOnDrive and use the appropriate decimal value from above.