Windows 2000 - Show Small Icons In Start Menu

[LeveL]

I have searched Google and MSFN, I have found the XP

answer to this but not the Windows 2000 answer.

How can I change the Start Menu from this...

To this:

For such a simple cosmetic change I have never known there to

be a registry tweak that just flat out does not exist! But it doesn't,

I used "ExamDiff Pro" to compare two registry files and it is not

listed in the differences! Most differences were in the CLSID keys

with long random numbers in the key names (nothing to do with

this small icons thing, trust me)

Why is it possible in XP but not possible in Windows 2000?

In XP you can import this tweak to do it...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;Show small icons in Start menu

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2]"Settings"=hex:28,00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff,06,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,3c,00,00,00,1e,\

00,00,00,fe,ff,ff,ff,e4,02,00,00,02,04,00,00,02,03,00,00

That is for XP though - it does not work on Windows 2000.

I also tried "RegShot" and it gave me this as the only differences in the registry...

Regshot 1.7
Comments:
Datetime:2006/11/21 09:02:02  ,  2006/11/21 09:02:18

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Values modified:2
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HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed: D4 60 5A 12 8B FB E7 4A ED A7 A9 A4 BF AF 65 E0 FB E3 8F B4 59 C3 18 85 45 17 12 CB EC 5A 02 7C 1D F2 BC B0 72 B1 3D 00 8B 30 FA A4 24 3E DA BE 18 D6 ED 85 DA AB A8 DA EE 23 40 A5 7A D7 85 24 99 2A A1 9B D9 CA 7E 8F 2C 73 D0 47 17 2F A7 14
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed: 77 66 A7 FD 49 D7 B9 CF AF 66 73 6E 58 B9 73 B3 EA 15 60 63 58 F6 93 72 01 69 09 19 B7 16 0B CC A4 97 90 E8 8F 9F DE F2 27 23 DB 95 83 55 6B 6B 2E 38 71 D5 92 CF AE 69 03 1D 63 10 3E 02 57 8E 8E 1E 54 6A FE D3 13 A8 AC E9 89 AA 93 57 B7 23
HKU\S-1-5-21-2000478354-1326574676-725345543-1000\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Discardable\PostSetup\Component Categories\{00021492-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\Enum\Implementing: 1C 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 D6 07 0B 00 02 00 15 00 09 00 01 00 0A 00 DA 00 02 00 00 00 81 45 E0 01 EE 4E D0 11 BF E9 00 AA 00 5B 43 83 21 BF 5C 0E 5F D1 D0 11 83 01 00 AA 00 5B 43 83
HKU\S-1-5-21-2000478354-1326574676-725345543-1000\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Discardable\PostSetup\Component Categories\{00021492-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\Enum\Implementing: 1C 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 D6 07 0B 00 02 00 15 00 09 00 02 00 0B 00 42 02 02 00 00 00 81 45 E0 01 EE 4E D0 11 BF E9 00 AA 00 5B 43 83 21 BF 5C 0E 5F D1 D0 11 83 01 00 AA 00 5B 43 83

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Total changes:2
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HKLM and HKU

WHERES THE HKCU THOUGH?!

Things like this are enough to drive me nuts!

Its not even a vital tweak its all about the principle of it now!

How can M$ make Windows 2000 so that some setting is completely

independent of the registry? Nothing is independent of the registry

though thats the thing - someone has got to RESCUE ME from this

madness, please, how can you change it with a REG file?

Please tell me, I am actually going crazy here

[LeveL]

Alright, that hex setting DOES work in Windows 2000 but it only

changes to 06 when you manually set the start menu on "show

small icons in the start menu".

If I import a reg tweak then yeah, it also changes to a 06 but

you go back into the registry ten minutes later and its changed

back to a 02 again! In other words the registry resets itself

back again! This is just ridiculous!

I am logged in as "Administrator" too - theres no reason for

a reg file to change the registry then it just changes back

again.

Faced with a new problem then - why the **** does the registry

set the hex setting back to a 02 again when I said 06?

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;Show small icons in Start menu

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2]"Settings"=hex:28,00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff,06,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,3c,00,00,00,1e,\

00,00,00,fe,ff,ff,ff,e4,02,00,00,02,04,00,00,02,03,00,00

STAY ON 06!!!! AAAAGH!!!!!

Edited November 21, 2006 by LeveL

[zlim]

1. Rightclick an empty spot on the taskbar and select Properties.

2. On the General tab, put a tick/checkmark in the box "Show small icons on start menu"

3. Click apply before you close the window using the X in the upper right corner.

[trodas]

I keep wondering why doing that with registers, when clean and easy way exist right in windows...

[LeveL]

I keep wondering why doing that with registers, when clean and easy way exist right in windows...

Because I am doing it unattended and cannot "click" the taskbar if it isn't there.

Thanks for the entertainment, it was worth it.

I worked this out anyway - its the same tweak as XP, it just doesnt work

in an already installed environment, but applied durin unattended, it does

work.