[Mercury]

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

[Diabolical82]

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

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•  help.jpg (31.61K)
  Number of downloads: 58

[Mercury]

Diabolical82, on Sep 28 2004, 09:18 PM, said:

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

[Diabolical82]

ah thanks for pointing that out!

EDIT: nope i dont have that.... could it be this?

Quote

"Start_MinMFU"=dword:00000004

[RyanVM]

Anybody have a clue which registry key causes the little user icon to disappear from the start menu?

[RoXoN]

What's the regkey to add control panel in my computer?
The key to auto arrange desktop shortcuts

[Diabolical82]

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

[-= MD =-]

With this key Windows tells you exactly what it is doing when it is shuttig down or is booting

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]
"verbosestatus"=dword:00000001

[SKiTLz]

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.

[toe_cutter]

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

This post has been edited by toe_cutter: 29 September 2004 - 10:18 AM

[evilvoice]

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"

[SKiTLz]

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"

[RogueSpear]

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.

[evilvoice]

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?)

[SKiTLz]

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.

[RogueSpear]

ADM files have their use in managing GPOs in an Active Directory environment. Using them in standalone environments has little if any benefit. The only thing I can think of is if you wanted to use group policy on that standalone machine (not recommended).

To utilize ADM files, all you need to do is simply put them inside %windir%\inf. Then when you are editing a GPO you can right click on "Administrative Templates" for either Computer Settings or User Settings and select Add/Remove Templates. Any ADM files in the inf directory will appear in the resulting pick list.

This is how you would manage Windows Automatic Updates Settings using SUS. PerfectDisk 6 comes with its own ADM file for managing its settings. Microsoft Office XP and 2003 have a host of ADM files that can be found in the Resource Kit Tools for each respective suite.

The beautiful part about using GPOs for settings management is that the settings for users are applied at logon time. Therefore the settings are not permanent or "tattooed" as Microsoft refers to it. But in the end, to use this method of registry management in a standalone or small workgroup environment would certainly be IMHO a waste of time. You would have to find a way to modify the default GPO for the machine, whether it be overwriting some files, or devising a "better mousetrap" to import your settings during setup.

[sleepnmojo]

I should probably add this here. I had a problem with my ati mobility card, and this lil bugger was the culprit. I'm taking it out of my unattended, and you may want to also if you have an ati card.

The following registry key will screw up SP2 with ati mobility and possibly other cards.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
"LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000001

[shaokahn]

;----- Remove frequently accessed programs list from Start Menu
;-----
;[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
;"NoStartMenuMFUprogramsList"=dword:00000001

I have this tweak comment and i still have no list of the frequently accessed programs list in start menu.

i even tryed to to merge this info bellow to registry, rebooted and still the same.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

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

i used the file at the first post of prathapml.

anyone knows why is this happening? tks in advance

[DisabledTrucker]

For those of you trying to figure out what is going on in the start menu, here is what my start menu looks like: September Desktops. And the attached file is my registry entries to match it. Granted you wont get the color scheme with that file but it will give you an idea of what it will look like. I erased my name from the top of the menu for the pic, so no that's not a tweak.

Now for the reason that I actually replied to begin with, in the following code, there are "YES"/"NO" statements which are totally incorrect, they have to be changed to dword:00000001/00000000 respectively.

;-----
;-----  Custom Shell Settings
;-----
*******Previous entries in this line are correct*******
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShowCompColor"=dword:00000001
"DontPrettyPath"=dword:00000000
"ShowInfoTip"=dword:00000001
"HideIcons"=dword:00000000
"MapNetDrvBtn"=dword:00000001
"WebView"=dword:00000000
"Filter"=dword:00000000
"SeparateProcess"=dword:00000001
"StartMenuInit"=dword:00000002
"ListviewAlphaSelect"=dword:00000000
"ListviewShadow"=dword:00000000
"ListviewWatermark"=dword:00000000
"TaskbarAnimations"=dword:00000000
"StartButtonBalloonTip"=dword:00000002
"StartMenuAdminTools"="YES"
"StartMenuFavorites"=dword:00000001
"StartMenuRun"=dword:00000001
"StartMenuChange"=dword:00000001
"CascadeControlPanel"="YES"
;----- Enable Cascading My Documents
"CascadeMyDocuments"="YES"
"CascadeNetworkConnections"="YES"
"CascadePrinters"="NO"
"StartMenuScrollPrograms"="NO"
"IntelliMenus"=dword:00000000
"TaskbarSizeMove"=dword:00000001
"TaskbarGlomming"=dword:00000000
;----- don't auto search for LAN folders/printers
"NoNetCrawling"=dword:00000001
"FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000001
"FriendlyTree"=dword:00000000
;-----  Show file extensions
"HideFileExt"=dword:00000000
;-----  display system folder contents
"WebViewBarricade"=dword:00000001
;-----  Disable thumbnail caching
"DisableThumbnailCache"=dword:00000001
;-----  Show hidden files/objects
"Hidden"=dword:00000001
;-----  Show protected OS files
"ShowSuperHidden"=dword:00000001
"ClassicViewState"=dword:00000000
"PersistBrowsers"=dword:00000000
"ServerAdminUI"=dword:00000000
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000001
"Start_ShowNetPlaces_ShouldShow"=dword:00000041
"Start_MinMFU"=dword:00000004
;-----  Show Control Panel as cascaded menu
"Start_ShowControlPanel"=dword:00000002
"StartMenuFavorites"=dword:00000000
"Start_ShowHelp"=dword:00000001
"Start_ShowMyDocs"=dword:00000002
"Start_ShowMyMusic"=dword:00000000
"Start_ShowMyPics"=dword:00000000
"Start_ShowPrinters"=dword:00000000
"Start_ShowSetProgramAccessAndDefaults"=dword:00000000
"Start_ShowRecentDocs"=dword:00000002
;-----  Disable higlighting of new applications in start menu
"Start_NotifyNewApps"=dword:00000000
;-----  Administrative Tools in your Start Menu
"Start_AdminToolsRoot"=dword:00000000
;-----  Startmenu 1 = Large / 0 = Small Icons
"Start_LargeMFUIcons"=dword:00000001

HTH.
@shaokahn
dont add that key at all it's not normally in the registry, could be your problem.

@sleepnmojo
That entry has worked just fine with my ATI AIW for the last couple years since XP was first released.

@Diabolical82
Not sure what Webview is mines always been set to 1
FriendlyTree has always been set to 1 on my machine
CascadeControlPanel should be in form of 00000000(1) if its a real tweak
CascadeMyDocuments same as above
CascadeNetworkConnections same as above
CascadePrinters same as above
Start_ShowNetConn should be changed to Start_ShowNetConn_ShouldShow
Dont forget there are HKLM settings for these as well which also could be the culprit.

Attached File(s)

•  StartMenu.reg (3.82K)
  Number of downloads: 105

[DisabledTrucker]

Diabolical82, on Sep 28 2004, 11:28 PM, said:

ah thanks for pointing that out!

EDIT: nope i dont have that.... could it be this?

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"Start_MinMFU"=dword:00000004

No thats how many programs you allow on your list in the startmenu.

RT click start select Properties
Customize
Number of programs ---> Yours is 4 by that line

I do want to make a note, that more of you are using ones for just the HKCU, if you look in your registry you may find it in HKLM as well, if your wanting that to be a default setting for all users use the HKLM setting instead as it has presidence over the HKCU. If not, it's trial and error as to what will work and what wont for default values in HKLM that works also in HKCU, though most will.

*EDIT*

See attached CustomShellMenu.reg for the correct entries in the regirstry for these settings, note also I took out the ones for the cascade as there is a setting in that line which allows for it, but the ones which were being called were not the correct ones for XP w/SP2. Start_AutoCascade=dword:00000000 is the setting for the Start Menu cascading, the rest are done with # switches like for MyDocs would be dword:00000002 (2) instead of dword:00000001 (1)

Attached File(s)

•  CustomShellSettings.REG (2.28K)
  Number of downloads: 145

This post has been edited by DisabledTrucker: 30 September 2004 - 03:11 AM