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Those power settings are probably not working since its HKCU. You need to apply it at T-12.

I feel a little dumb, but I keep seeing T-12 and other such things

how do I know where that is in the installation process?

T minus twelve, is the point during setup where the status (on left) shows "12 minutes remaining".

And most of these terms are explained in the guide.... just have a good read of the guide (which has been revised to explain things more clearly).

very well, I'll read that

However, I'm still looking to find the regtweak to disable the personalized menus so I don't have to manually do it.

Also, looking for a way to automatically show favorites as well so that's not a manual thing also

I searched the entire forum for +personalized +menus, and only came up with this thread

both those things which you are looking for, can be found in the registry tweaks topic here.

great. both threads are over 60 pages long, and my searches have turned up nothing useful

but thanks for no help anyway

There's that file attached to first-post in that thread, where I clearly remember having added that tweak.

yeah, I read thru that one as best I could, and also searched the text for personalized. didn't find the tweak for removing personalized menus, but I'll look again

I did however find the thing to add the favorites, so I'm going to test that very soon :-)

3) How do I change my XP account photo to my own photo file?

i have made a small tool for this purpose using autoit script .

Place it into $OEM$\$$\system32

If you want to use an account pic provided by the winxp ,double click the ChPic.exe or use "ChPic.exe /?" to see the switches,which stand for the currently available account pics in the OS

If you want to use a custom pic, place the pic(must be a Bitmap) into "$OEM$\$Docs\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default Picture"

then use the following code only during RunOnceEx or GUIRunOnce,it will change the account pic based on the current logon user

ChPic /xxx

xxx stands for the bitmap name,not including the .bmp extension

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 

;Removes Language Bar
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{540D8A8B-1C3F-4E32-8132-530F6A502090}]
@="Language bar"
"MenuTextPUI"="@%SystemRoot%\\System32\\msutb.dll,-325"

;Deactivate Language Bar
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CTF\LangBar]
"ShowStatus"=dword:00000003

;disable the "search-dog"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CabinetState]
"Use Search Asst"="no"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"StartMenuFavorites"=dword:00000001
"CascadeControlPanel"="YES"
"CascadeMyDocuments"="YES"
"TaskbarGlomming"=dword:00000000
;Moves Outlook to system tray when minimized. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Preferences] 
"MinToTray"=dword:00000001

there's some I found to be useful

Nice, they all work :-)

well, this is what I've found after searching google

No, I didn't find it on msfn with the search button as who would have known to search for IntelliMenus

and the key wasn't explained as to what it would do.

so thanks to all of you for telling me to search and not bother helping at all.

it's so frustrating to be yelled at to search when the search terms that would make sense to me don't return results

but at http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/package_one.htm they are saying it's the registry key

p = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\"
p = p & "IntelliMenus"
itemtype = "REG_SZ"
n = "No"

so I'd assume the correct entry that indeed was in the registry tweak file is:

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

"IntelliMenus"=dword:00000000

So now I can rest easy knowing I figured it all out myself