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Mercury

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All about Balloon Tips

Remove folder content Balloon Tips

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000000

Remove Balloon Tips on folder and Desktop items

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShowInfoTip"=dword:00000000

Remove Balloon Tips on Start Menu items

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSMBalloonTip"=dword:00000000

Remove Start Button Balloon Tip

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"StartButtonBalloonTip"=dword:00000000

Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000

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Mercury

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I'm still trying to figure out which one of those registry keys causing this? *see attach pix*

Remove frequently accessed programs list from Start Menu

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoStartMenuMFUprogramsList"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoStartMenuMFUprogramsList"=dword:00000001

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Diabolical82

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Argghh I'm still furious

see anything wrong with this? *still having same problem mention above*

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ServerAdminUI"=dword:00000000
"Start_NotifyNewApps"=dword:00000000
"NoNetCrawling"=dword:00000001
"Hidden"=dword:00000001
"ShowCompColor"=dword:00000001
"HideFileExt"=dword:00000000
"DontPrettyPath"=dword:00000000
"ShowInfoTip"=dword:00000001
"HideIcons"=dword:00000000
"MapNetDrvBtn"=dword:00000000
"WebView"=dword:00000000
"Filter"=dword:00000000
"SuperHidden"=dword:00000001
"SeparateProcess"=dword:00000000
"ListviewAlphaSelect"=dword:00000001
"ListviewShadow"=dword:00000001
"ListviewWatermark"=dword:00000000
"TaskbarAnimations"=dword:00000001
"StartMenuInit"=dword:00000002
"StartButtonBalloonTip"=dword:00000002
"FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000001
"FriendlyTree"=dword:00000000
"WebViewBarricade"=dword:00000001
"DisableThumbnailCache"=dword:00000000
"ShowSuperHidden"=dword:00000001
"ClassicViewState"=dword:00000000
"PersistBrowsers"=dword:00000000
"CascadeControlPanel"="YES"
"Start_ShowControlPanel"=dword:00000001
"Start_ShowHelp"=dword:00000001
"Start_ShowMyDocs"=dword:00000001
"Start_ShowMyMusic"=dword:00000001
"Start_ShowMyPics"=dword:00000001
"Start_ShowPrinters"=dword:00000001
"Start_ShowSetProgramAccessAndDefaults"=dword:00000000
"Start_ShowRecentDocs"=dword:00000000
"CascadeMyDocuments"="YES"
"CascadeNetworkConnections"="YES"
"CascadePrinters"="NO"
"Start_ShowNetPlaces"=dword:00000000
"Start_ShowNetConn"=dword:00000001
"Start_EnableDragDrop"=dword:00000001
"Start_ShowMyComputer"=dword:00000001
"Start_ShowRun"=dword:00000001
"Start_ScrollPrograms"=dword:00000000
"Start_ShowSearch"=dword:00000001
"Start_AutoCascade"=dword:00000001
"Start_AdminToolsRoot"=dword:00000000
"StartMenuAdminTools"=dword:00000000

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SKiTLz

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If anyone is interested I've been putting all USEFUL tweaks into an ADM template to just add to your group policy. Looks alot more professional.

Writing it by hand though so it could take me some time to finish with the amount of tweaks.

Also means you can toggle certain tweaks with only one key. For instance the change to add Services to the My Computer context menu is as follows.

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\services] 
@=hex(2):53,00,65,00,72,00,76,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,73,00,00,00 
"SuppressionPolicy"=dword:4000003c 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\services\command] 
@=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73, 00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6d,00,6d,00,63,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00, 65,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,20,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,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,00,73,00,65,00,72,00,76,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,73,00,2e,00,6d,00,73, 00,63,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,00,00

With my template all you have to do is Change HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Custom "EnableServicesContext" to 1.

Just like normal policies.

If anyone else wants it I'll post when Im done. Save anyone else puting the time in.

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toe_cutter

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I dont know if this has been posted before.

But if you turn off the Rollback feature of msi installs you are not able to install .NET 1.1 SP1 (the slipstreamed version by RyanVM)

And i also figured out how to set a custom theme:

Load your theme

Logoff and logon again

Export these two keys from the registry:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager]

(Be sure you have the right code or whatever it is (mine is: S-1-5-21-1801674531-1343024091-2147089337-500)

[HKEY_USERS\<custom!!!!!!>\Control Panel\Colors\]

And there you have it :)

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evilvoice

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Skitlz, Id like to know how you are doing this...Ive spent a lot of time on my tweaks and they are perfect...if you could let me know how to do these templates, I would appreciate it...and its taken about a month to go through every single tweak that I USE, and fix the data or fix the entire thing...for instance...if anyone is using %systemroot% in a reg setting, you should turn it into reg_expand_sz (thereby prefixing the data with a hex(2)) and you should also convert all c:\whatever to its variable and in turn move it into a reg_expand_sz setting...Ive tested all my tweaks with this setting, yes, its a cumbersome process, but it will ensure that your tweak will work no matter what.

On another note...I think it should be noted that

;-----  When windows will not set hard drives or optical drives to DMA mode

tweak does not mean that windows will automatically place your optical drives in dma mode, because it wont, your cd burner and whatever will still be set in PIO mode only when you do a new install (after installing about 6 times with this tweak and having to change the mode every time, it leads me to believe that this tweak is ONLY for forcing windows to allow you to change the mode setting from PIO to DMA...but you still have to do this youself)...now, I guess some people will get that idea from the label, but maybe a clearer message...something like "this tweak does not mean that your drives will be in DMA mode, you will still have to do that yourself"

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SKiTLz

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No problem. Their just basic ADM templates. Theres alot of info around on formatting them. Main thing with them is for a large amount of tweaks they are quite time consuming to write.

Here is just a portion of mine. Do a google on ADM templates and read up then compare to mine and it may make it easier to understand them off the bat.

CLASS MACHINE
   CATEGORY "System"
      KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Custom"
      POLICY "Disable BSOD Automatic Restart"
         #if VERSION >= 3
         EXPLAIN "Control if the system should automatically restart in the event of a system crash."
         #endif
         VALUENAME "DisableBSODRestart"
         VALUEON NUMERIC 1
         VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
         ACTIONLISTON 
            KEYNAME "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl"
               VALUENAME "AutoReboot"
               VALUE NUMERIC 0
         END ACTIONLISTON 
         ACTIONLISTOFF 
            KEYNAME "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl"
               VALUENAME "AutoReboot"
               VALUE NUMERIC 1
         END ACTIONLISTOFF 
      END POLICY; Disable BSOD Automatic Restart
   END CATEGORY; System
   CATEGORY "Network"
      KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Custom"
      POLICY "Disable Participating in Master Browser Election"
         #if VERSION >= 3
         EXPLAIN "Stops this computer from participating in the elections process to store available network nodes."
         #endif
         VALUENAME "DisableBrowserElection"
         VALUEON NUMERIC 1
         VALUEOFF NUMERIC 1
         ACTIONLISTON 
            KEYNAME "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters"
               VALUENAME "MaintainServerList"
               VALUE "No"
               VALUENAME "IsDomainMaster"
               VALUE "False"
         END ACTIONLISTON 
         ACTIONLISTOFF 
            KEYNAME "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters"
               VALUENAME "MaintainServerList"
               VALUE "Yes"
               VALUENAME "IsDomainMaster"
               VALUE "True"
         END ACTIONLISTOFF 
      END POLICY; Disable Participating in Master Browser Election
   END CATEGORY; Network
   CATEGORY "File System"
      KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Custom"
      POLICY "Disable NTFS last-access timestamp"
         #if VERSION >= 3
         EXPLAIN "Determines whether NTFS updates the last-access timestamp on each directory when it lists the directories on an NTFS volume."
         #endif
         VALUENAME "DisableNTFSLastAccess"
         VALUEON NUMERIC 1
         VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
         ACTIONLISTON 
            KEYNAME "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem"
               VALUENAME "NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate"
               VALUE NUMERIC 1
         END ACTIONLISTON 
         ACTIONLISTOFF 
            KEYNAME "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem"
               VALUENAME "NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate"
               VALUE NUMERIC 0
         END ACTIONLISTOFF 
      END POLICY; Disable NTFS last-access timestamp
      POLICY "Disable NTFS 8.3 Name Creation"
         #if VERSION >= 3
         EXPLAIN "This setting controls whether MS-DOS compatible 8.3 file names should be generated on NTFS partitions."
         #endif
         VALUENAME "Disable8dot3"
         VALUEON NUMERIC 1
         VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
         ACTIONLISTON 
            KEYNAME "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem"
               VALUENAME "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"
               VALUE NUMERIC 1
         END ACTIONLISTON 
         ACTIONLISTOFF 
            KEYNAME "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem"
               VALUENAME "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation"
               VALUE NUMERIC 0
         END ACTIONLISTOFF 
      END POLICY; Disable NTFS 8.3 Name Creation
   END CATEGORY; File System
   CATEGORY "Windows Components"

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RogueSpear

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You can also open up some of Microsoft's included ADM files to get a feel for them. Also, I have a book by Microsoft Press "The Windows XP Registry" which has a chapter about making your own ADM files.

This really does make for some easy easy tweaking network wide. You just need to make sure you apply them at the OU level, unless you want to inflict some serious pain on any servers.

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evilvoice

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now, as I understand it, CLASS MACHINE is HKLM and CLASS USER is HKCU...but what about HKCR? There are quite a few reg settings I apply for HKCR and with using ADM, I dont see a way to do this...The reason I want to use ADM is because its more professional, and it also has an undo, that is easily configured...honestly, its not that hard to read...I did do a search to find out about CLASS ROOT (what I think it would be called), but other than that, pretty simple to figure out.

Also, how would you apply the adm template in runonceex (or during windows setup) so that at the end of your unattended you could just add some reg settings to the policy key to turn on and off the tweaks...or can this be accomplished (what I mean is, is there a way to add the adm unattendedly, or must it be attended?)

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SKiTLz

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HKCR is HKLM\Software\Classes

As for importing the template automatically Im still working that one out.

I personally have all my workstations on a domain so I set the GPO at the OU level. Im still going to work out howto import auto during install though.

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