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Ken Chapin

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Dec 10, 2002, 2:11:00 PM12/10/02
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Does anyone know where accessibility settings are located in the registry?
I'm looking to turn off the shortcuts for:
StickyKeys
FilterKeys
ToggleKeys
High Contrast
MouseKeys

I'd also like to make these changes for the logon desktop and new users.

Any help is much appreciated.
THANKS!
Ken


Ken Chapin

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Dec 10, 2002, 5:00:39 PM12/10/02
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OK...I've found the key that each feature uses to store it's settings.
HKCU\Control Panel\Accessibility\[feature]

Where [feature] is one of the following keys:
StickyKeys feature = StickyKeys
FilterKeys feature = Keyboard Response
ToggleKeys feature = ToggleKeys
High Contrast feature = HighContrast
MouseKeys feature = MouseKeys

To disable the "Use Shortcut" option for each feature simply reduce the
"Flags" value by 4:

StickyKeys\Flags:REG_SZ:506 Enabled value = Flags:REG_SZ:510
Keyboard Response\Flags:REG_SZ:122 Enabled value =
Flags:REG_SZ:126
ToggleKeys\Flags:REG_SZ:58 Enabled value = Flags:REG_SZ:62
HighContrast\Flags:REG_SZ:122 Enabled value = Flags:REG_SZ:126
MouseKeys\Flags:REG_SZ:58 Enabled value = Flags:REG_SZ:62

To apply these setting to the Logon desktop change the appropriate values
in:
HK_USERS\Control Panel\Accessibility\[feature]

I cannot for the life of me figure out where the settings are stored for new
users. I've tried loading the default user into a new hive but there are no
changes taking place when I enable or disable settings with the
Accessibility Options GUI.
Anyone have any ideas?

Any help is much appreciated!
THANKS!
Ken


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Mark V

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Dec 11, 2002, 11:17:43 AM12/11/02
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"Ken Chapin" <kch...@grhs.net> wrote in
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>
> I cannot for the life of me figure out where the settings are
> stored for new users. I've tried loading the default user into a
> new hive but there are no changes taking place when I enable or
> disable settings with the Accessibility Options GUI.
> Anyone have any ideas?

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Accessibility\ ...

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