feel free to not waste your time with this thread! i just engaged in a very complicated goose chase. lol

Edited June 29, 200620 yr by i'm not ophiel

It is great news that you have zeroed in these few files for the stubborn behaviour of visual effects using nlite.

I hope you find a solution pretty soon and we may all be relieved of manually setting the things right.

I don't have any fid* file in drivers.

However, I have reg tweaks I import at T-12 to set my visual settings and I have abolutely no problem with them.

crap. i was afraid of that. it's kaspersky's kernel mode driver. bleh. this is strange. how can altering kaspersky's database change my visual fx settings?? i tested it many times.

argh. just confirmed it IS kaspersky. i'm insane. remind me to not only disable, but completely murder AV when poring over harddrive logs.

with just reg keys i can select the correct setting in the control panel dialog, but the settings aren't actually applied.

are you sure your t-12 method actually applies the settings?

i'm going to try your t-12 idea, but before i do, regedit doesn't work at that stage, right?

Edited June 29, 200620 yr by i'm not ophiel

This is what I use:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\AnimateMinMax]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ComboBoxAnimation]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\CursorShadow]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\DragFullWindows]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\DropShadow]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000
"DefaultByAlphaTest"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\FontSmoothing]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000
"DefaultByFontTest"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListBoxSmoothScrolling]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListviewAlphaSelect]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000
"DefaultByAlphaTest"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListviewShadow]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000001
"DefaultByAlphaTest"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListviewWatermark]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000
"MinimumMEM"=dword:00000054
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\MenuAnimation]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000
"DefaultByAlphaTest"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\SelectionFade]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000
"DefaultByAlphaTest"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\TaskbarAnimations]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000
"DefaultByAlphaTest"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\Themes]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\TooltipAnimation]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000
"DefaultByAlphaTest"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\WebView]
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000000

And regedit works perfectly at this stage. (regedit /s visual.reg)

cool, thanks.

i had trouble before getting regedit to work during setup, but i only tried it once i think.

i can't believe it, but it worked.

then i tried it at t-39, and it didn't work. and of course we all know that after t-12 definitely doesn't work.

**** tux, you rock. i have to try other stubborn settings now. lmao, it censored d-a-m-n

Edited June 29, 200620 yr by i'm not ophiel

Thanks.

And I also know why it doesn't work at T-39.

Take a look at this thread : http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...amp;hl=regsvr32

If you have opened the registry, you certainly noticed a "structure". This structure is not in hives but is in shell32.dll.

Btw, I'll do some benchmarks this weekend. Of course, I did some before posting my idea but I got strange results because I didn't know XPize removes some low resolutions icons.

I'll also see if I can get visual settings to work without reg tweaks.

PS: I think nuhi tried this in RC7/RC8 but somehow it got messed up.

So I have a question : which SP and OS do you run ?

:woot:

7 stars !

(1500th post )

xp corp + sp2

yah, i wasn't surprised that it didn't work at t-39. what is interesting though is that it seems even at t-12 the structure of the registry isn't complete yet either.

i tried doing my normal "other" settings at t-12 and almost all of them got overwritten.

umm, I like cheese too

Particularly provolone

I hate cheese. Except for those square shaped processed slices that come in packages, and Kraft Dinner. Had that for lunch today. MMmm... nothin' wrong with KD. lol...

This topic is weird.

the topic is weird because i'm a confused person.

but wtf is wrong with you. you like those squares of whipped oil? that's not cheese!!!!!

goat cheese 4tw

Cheese. ^_^

Have a look at these :

And that one, but it's to big for me to display it inside my post.

http://recettes.viabloga.com/images/Chevre...de%20laitue.jpg

Indeed, I'm French, and ?

edit : it's 8:40am, I did not take my breakfast yet and I feel like cheese.

Edited June 30, 200620 yr by Camarade_Tux

I could go for some Brie on sourdough bread right about now...

but wtf is wrong with you. you like those squares of whipped oil? that's not cheese!!!!!

Whipped oil? These?