List yer unattainable xp customizations

[mraeryceos]

Those settings you can't automate in the unattended media. These are my unattainables :

- destroy "my documents" once and for all

- always have box checked: advanced search options

- no indexing service setting on files (no I don't want them to be ready to be indexed!)

- auto arrange items on desktop

- open unknown file formats with notepad, yet still have "open with" functionality

- small icons in windows explorer and internet explorer (back, forward, up, folders, refresh, etc).

If anyone has managed any of these, please respond.

[MCT]

hi. they'd be easy 2 do..

turn off WFP & delete registry keys & folders & files related 2 my documents

advanced search options can be done via registry hack

u can turn off indexing service , but windows will apply attributes 2 files & folders anyways, cuz it does it b4 u can change the setting 4 it, i spose if u edit 1 of the setup files it could be done

there is a thread called "Auto arrange desktop icons" search for it

u can do that notepad thing via registry, look in registry tweaks thread

u can do the explorer things via registry i believe

hope this helps

[mraeryceos]

>turn off WFP & delete registry keys & folders & files related 2 my documents

Will need to dig some more, if I get it I'll post.

>advanced search options can be done via registry hack

I've tried to record, and I've searched in the boards. Next I could try is to record thru a restart, or try to do what jrzycrim did.

>u can turn off indexing service , but windows will apply attributes 2 files & folders

>anyways, cuz it does it b4 u can change the setting 4 it, i spose if u edit 1 of the

>setup files it could be done

Could it be part of NTFS?

>there is a thread called "Auto arrange desktop icons" search for it

jrzycrim is the man! Remind me to search again even if its been a couple hours since my last search

>u can do that notepad thing via registry, look in registry tweaks thread

I had tried this:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\unknown\shell]
@="open"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\unknown\shell\open]
@="notepad"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\unknown\shell\open\command]
@="notepad.exe %1"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\unknown\shell\openas]
@="open with..."

when I should have picked up what looks like garbldigook:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell]
@="Notepad"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\Notepad\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
  00,5c,00,6e,00,6f,00,74,00,65,00,70,00,61,00,64,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,\
  20,00,25,00,31,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\openas]
@="open with..."
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\openas\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
  00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,72,00,75,00,\
  6e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,25,00,53,\
  00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,\
  79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,\
  00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,4f,00,70,00,65,00,6e,00,41,00,\
  73,00,5f,00,52,00,75,00,6e,00,44,00,4c,00,4c,00,20,00,25,00,31,00,00,00

>u can do the explorer things via registry i believe

Again, I will try jrzycrim's method, or restart and wade thru reg entries. Tomorrow after some zzzz's

[mraeryceos]

- small icons in windows explorer and internet explorer (back, forward, up, folders, refresh, etc).

answer:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=19138

As for advanced search box always checked, I only found what Neophyte posted:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Search Assistant]

"UseAdvancedSearchAlways"=dword:00000001

from: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=19352

It didn't work for me, I guess cause I use classic search

[mraeryceos]

As for killing mydocs once and for all, perhaps this will help:

regsvr32 /u /s mydocs.dll

references:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1016901218

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=11562

[svasutin]

Here's a thought,

Install xp, however you normally do it.

Export the registry

Make all your changes

Export your registry again

Then apply windiff or whatever to track the changes

This should get you your registry tweaks.

There are a few minor details, you might not want to add, but more less, its the idea.

[mraeryceos]

svasutin, I actually did this, but I would track one change at a time because I want to know what each change is in the registry. It's not as easy as you think, cause there are a lot of changes made in the registry that are routine to the usage of the OS. You have no idea what these changes have to do with, but you know they are irrelevant to the change you want because they tend to show up no matter what you do.