How to determine what reg setting is used for "Show Notifications on Task Bar"

[SD]

I am trying to figure out what registry setting is used by XPe when you
select "Show Notifications on Task Bar" in the User Interface Core
component.

Or in general how can you determine what a component is going to do to
your build? Has anyone tried to figure this type of thing in reverse?

Thanks.
Sean

 

[SD]

OK, so I found the registry setting for the "Show Notifications on Task
Bar" option in the User Interface Core component; its
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]\NoTrayItemsDisplay=dword:00000000

 

[KM]

SD,

Why it took you so long to find out the key? It is mentioned in the "User Interface Core" component script
Most specifically, to affect all and default users in your image, set the
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer], "NoTrayItemsDisplay" (dword).

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Regards,
KM

OK, so I found the registry setting for the "Show Notifications on Task
Bar" option in the User Interface Core component; its
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]\NoTrayItemsDisplay=dword:00000000

I am trying to figure out what registry setting is used by XPe when you
select "Show Notifications on Task Bar" in the User Interface Core
component.

Or in general how can you determine what a component is going to do to
your build? Has anyone tried to figure this type of thing in reverse?

Thanks.
Sean

 

[SD]

I figured the setting out by building two identical (except for this
setting) systems side-by-side and then compared the registries line by
line.

So this is the point of the second part of my original question, how do
you view the component script?

Thanks.

- Sean

 

[KM]

Sean,

Wow. That must have been a lot of work you did if you went through registry hives line by line.
It might be easier to export the hives in .reg files and then do WinDiff on them or etc.

Anyway, here is a few methods you can use to explore CMI scripts of components (btw, not all components have scripts assigned to
them):

- Each QFE from Mircosoft includes an SLD file with updated components. If you open the SLD file in CD, you will be able to
export script for every component there if assigned.
- MS SP2 is also a big "QFE" like package (it is an update to SP1) and therefore huge SLD file is there (nice info about a bunch
of components)
- You can always observe components scripts when you "view" Mantis db with tools like SQL Enterprise Manager, or, after all, you
can explore the scripts in binaries of the MDF file (just keep in mind it is all Unicode)
- [probably easiest] You can use XPeTools package from www.xpefiles.com. A component from the package (DependencyExplorer) will
allow you to export component scripts.