Re: Visual Effects
Ramesh, MS-MVP
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:
If you're a programmer, these two links might help.
SystemParametersInfo:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/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.
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Ramesh Srinivasan
MS-MVP, Windows Shell
Windows XP Troubleshooting
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"Rich Holmes" <RichH...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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!
> --
> Network Engineer
> MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
Rich Holmes
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Network Engineer
MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
Ramesh, MS-MVP
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Ramesh, MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Windows XP Troubleshooting
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Windows XP Newsgroup Setup Instructions for Outlook Express:
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"Rich Holmes" <RichH...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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