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#1 svasutin

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Posted 21 February 2005 - 04:47 PM

I'm just wondering,
I apply most of my reg tweaks during the cmdlines.txt portion using
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT

instead of
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\

just wondering if there is a difference?

... I am just speaking of keys specific to these sections, not hklm, hkcr, or hkcc

#2 gtaylor

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Posted 21 February 2005 - 05:21 PM

Settings applied to HKU\.Default take effect before a user is logged on. Once a user is logged on it uses the settings in the HKCU key. For example to change the screensaver password you change the following key:

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"SCRNSAVE.EXE"="login.scr"

I generally apply all my patches to the HKCU section of the registry.