failed to get drop shadows for desktop icons.

[one4other]

hi all

i used nlite to make my unattended cd.every things works fine.except this shadows for desktop icons.

so i did a lot of search to solve this problem.and found following solution.

but non of them worked PERFECTLY.

1----

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

"ListviewShadow"=dword:00000001

2----

pls check following attachment(1.reg)

3--

visual effect changer xp tool.which apply visual effects at first boot through runonceEX.(it working some times.and failed a lot of times.)

so,can u ppl suggest me a sure shot method for this problem?

pls help me

thanks.

** where to change windows shutdown screen.is it shell32.dll?

1.reg

[rikgale]

Try adding this to your regtweaks file

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ListviewWatermark"=dword:00000000
"ListviewShadow"=dword:00000001
"ListviewAlphaSelect"=dword:00000000

Seemed to work ok for me

[bmn]

hey iam also getting this problem.is it worked for u?

from where ur applying this regtweak? is it cmdlines? or runonceEX?

Edited August 29, 2005 by bmn

[rikgale]

My regtweaks are applied at the beginning of RunOnceEx.

I just dropped those three lines in at the end of the file of tweaks and it seemed to work ok. I have only tested it once, but I am assuming that it will work again.

[Shark007]

I've recently experienced this also.

I think nlite B6 is at fault.

shark.

[rikgale]

Dont jump and blame nlite straight off. That program gets blamed for alot of things that are not it's fault.

Can you prove nlite is at fault?

I do however think that you might be right, I just wanted to defend nlite as it does get blamed for alot of things. I fiddle about with the tweaks section and could not get it to work thru that way. I.e I did not tick the box "Disable: Use drop shadows..." and they were still disabled anyways, and I am 99.9% sure that I have not disable them anywhere else

[bmn]

its ok.when we can solve this problem just using a simple regfile.

why to balme nlite.as it got a lot of good options compared to othet such tools.

[rikgale]

@one4another

Just to add, that the reg tweak that I posted does work everytime and works perfectely!

[slimzky]

i am also having problem in removing "Windows Catalog" from the start menu.. the tweak isnt working since beta 5

[bmn]

@rikgale

thanks.it worked for me.(abt desktop shadows).but the problem is regfile is applied only for current user.when i created another useraccount after installation.iam again getting shadows for desktop icons.

so how to apply this tweak for all accounts?

**can u post ur runonceEX file

thanks

Edited August 31, 2005 by bmn

[rikgale]

@bmn

I'm currentley unable to post RunOnceEx as away from main computer atm, on holiday...

I call my regtweaks at the beginning of RunOnceEx.cmd if that helps.

I'm unable to check and see if it works with other users as well, for the same reason, if you do get it working in the next week, pls post how.

Rik

[bmn]

actually iam not using runonceEX.

thats why iam asking ur runonceEX file,so that i can follow that.

pls do post ur runonceEX.

(ofcourse after ur vacation)

[bmn]

ok here what i did to apply regtweak(for shadows) for every new account we create after unattended installation.

i created one regfile(setstartup.reg) and applied it through cmdlines.txt

setstartup.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce]"Set Visual Effects"="visual.cmd"

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

"Set Visual Effects"="visual.cmd"

and placed 2 files (visual.cmd,visual.reg) in my $OEM$\$$\system32 folder

visual.cmd

cmdow @ /HID

@echo off

REM Special registry tweak for visual settings

regedit /S "%systemroot%\system32\visual.reg"

exit

visual.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

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

"ListviewWatermark"=dword:00000000

"ListviewShadow"=dword:00000001

"ListviewAlphaSelect"=dword:00000000

so when ever i create a new accout.visual.cmd is running (one time) thus applying visual.reg to the registry.

this worked like charm .but procedure is lengthy.so is there any other way to apply regtweak when ever a new account is created.

bmn

[bmn]

ok.i found the solution.actually we have to use another regtweak with the below one.

ie

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

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

"ListviewShadow"=dword:00000001

"ListviewAlphaSelect"=dword:00000000

now download below regfile and apply both of them through cmdlines.txt.

it worked like charm for all useraccounts created after unattended installation.

visual.reg

[Takeshi]

There's something not quite right.

The icon label drop shadows are applied by default in XP, so there must be a reason for not getting applied. Perhaps it conflicts with something in the uA.

Only the ListviewShadow"=dword:00000001 is relevant.

In my computers with drop shadows applied, the other values (ListviewWatermark and ListviewAlphaSelect) are both set to 1. They're also 1 in the VisualEffects subkey (as in the 2nd reg above).

Edited September 15, 2005 by Takeshi