Visual Effects

[Guest]

Greetings,

Does anyone know how to adjust Visual Effects through the registry? I have
tried the following reg setting
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\VisualFXSetting
and although it changes the checkbox, no settings are applied even after a
reboot. I'm hoping to be able to force all computers in my Domain not to use
Visual Effects and if I knew how to enforce it in the registry then I could
either export a reg file and merge it through a script or maybe create an
..adm template.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Rich,

Settings of this sort need to be done by a program (which calls an API).
Steven Liu [MSFT] confirms that this setting cannot be deployed using the
Group Policy:

http://groups.google.co.in/group/mi...olicy/msg/57165fb95e346948?dmode=source&hl=en

If you're a programmer, these two links might help.

SystemParametersInfo:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...y/en-us/sysinfo/base/systemparametersinfo.asp

The Old New Thing : Using SystemParametersInfo to access user interface
settings:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/03/09/390706.aspx

May be you can ask one of your friends to compile a program using VB, that
uses an API call and applies the visual effects changes instantly.

--
Ramesh Srinivasan
MS-MVP, Windows Shell

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com

 

[Guest]

Thanks man! Great Response.


--
Network Engineer
MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+

Rich,

Settings of this sort need to be done by a program (which calls an API).
Steven Liu [MSFT] confirms that this setting cannot be deployed using the
Group Policy:

http://groups.google.co.in/group/mi...olicy/msg/57165fb95e346948?dmode=source&hl=en

If you're a programmer, these two links might help.

SystemParametersInfo:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...y/en-us/sysinfo/base/systemparametersinfo.asp

The Old New Thing : Using SystemParametersInfo to access user interface
settings:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/03/09/390706.aspx

May be you can ask one of your friends to compile a program using VB, that
uses an API call and applies the visual effects changes instantly.

--
Ramesh Srinivasan
MS-MVP, Windows Shell

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Very welcome Rich.

--
Ramesh, MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com

Windows XP Newsgroup Setup Instructions for Outlook Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx

Thanks man! Great Response.


--
Network Engineer
MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+

Rich,

Settings of this sort need to be done by a program (which calls an API).
Steven Liu [MSFT] confirms that this setting cannot be deployed using the
Group Policy:

http://groups.google.co.in/group/mi...olicy/msg/57165fb95e346948?dmode=source&hl=en

If you're a programmer, these two links might help.

SystemParametersInfo:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...y/en-us/sysinfo/base/systemparametersinfo.asp

The Old New Thing : Using SystemParametersInfo to access user interface
settings:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/03/09/390706.aspx

May be you can ask one of your friends to compile a program using VB,
that
uses an API call and applies the visual effects changes instantly.

--
Ramesh Srinivasan
MS-MVP, Windows Shell

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com

Greetings,

Does anyone know how to adjust Visual Effects through the registry? I
have
tried the following reg setting
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\VisualFXSetting
and although it changes the checkbox, no settings are applied even
after a
reboot. I'm hoping to be able to force all computers in my Domain not
to
use
Visual Effects and if I knew how to enforce it in the registry then I
could
either export a reg file and merge it through a script or maybe create
an
.adm template.

Thanks in advance!