The System profile holds settings for programs and services that run
under the Local System account, these programs and services can run when
no one is logged on. The best example of some of these settings would
be the wallpaper/background color and screen saver that you see when you
are at the Windows logon screen.
John
Eric wrote:
> Thank you John
>
> In my case, it will be too complicated to edit the ntuser.dat of the
> "default user" as I wanted to integrate this modification into my MSI
> deployed by Landesk.
>
> Just for my comprehension, what is the "system (or Machine) profile" ?
> what is the difference between this and the HKLM so ?
>
> Thank you !
>> Eric wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We would like to add a registry key to the HKCU to apply it to every
>>> new users.
>>>
>>> The registry will stop the activity of the Kaspersky icon.
>>>
>>> What I did was to create the registry key under :
>>>
>>> HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\KasperskyLab\AVP6\settings\
>>> ("EnableTrayIconAnimation"=dword:00000000)
>>>
>>> BUT when I am logging with a new (local) user, the icon is still
>>> active, so the registry value is not taken into consideration.
>>>
>>> If I go to the HKCU\software\KasperskyLAB\AVP6, the
>>> EnableTrayIconAnimation has not been created.
>>>
>>> If I create this key manually to the HCKU, I can see that it works.
>>>
>>> So I am not sure to understand what is the purpose of the
>>> HKEY_Users\.Default registry key.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help
>>>
>>
>> That (HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT) is the System (or Machine) profile, it
>> isn't the "Default User" profile. If you want to add an entry to the
>> Default User profile load the C:\Documents and Settings\Default
>> User\NTUSER.DAT hive.
>>
>> Easy to follow instructions for remotely editing the registry:
>> http://www.rwin.ch/xp-live/regedit.htm
>>
>> John
>
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