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| vibez:
Thanks for creating this post. if only we had more of you, my garage wouldnt be such a mess! :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: |
| Level42:
--- Quote from: clhug on May 05, 2006, 10:40:15 pm --- --- Quote from: jelwell on May 05, 2006, 07:25:25 pm --- --- Quote from: exiges on May 05, 2006, 05:54:06 am ---3. Getting rid of the "Loading settings" screens i) Start Menu -> Run and enter regedit ii) Navigate to entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Policies>System iii) If there is an entry for "DisableStatusMessages" set it to 0 (the digit zero) If there is no entry, right-mouse click the "System" word, and select New->DWORD value, and enter "DisableStatusMessages", right-mouse to edit the value of it, and enter 0 (the digit zero). --- End quote --- I've never seen this message, which probably explains why it wasn't already in the wiki. Does this only happen on slower machines? Or maybe on machines with more than one user defined? Joseph Elwell. --- End quote --- I've never seen it on my PC at home (and I've not done the tweak suggested to suppress it), but I always see it on my PC at work. Might have something to with either multiple users as exiges suggested, or being a member of a domain instead of a workgroup, or just having to log in vs. not log in. In Windows XP, if you define only a single user and do not give that user a password, XP will automatically auto-log-in as that user. At work, we're forced to log in all the time. --- End quote --- OK I solved this. First I had managed to put the DWORD in the wrong place, then I managed to include a preceding space before the name of the DWORD so naturaly it didn't work. When I fixed all this, it still didn't work. Then I figured it was strange to set a "DisableStatusMessages" value to 0 because you'd think it would be turned off then (the disablement). So I switched it to 1 and TA-DA it works ! Exages, please update your initial post with this :) For some strange reason I'm not able to log into the Wiki anymore (???), so I couldn't correct it there myself (yet). I do think this message only shows when there are multiple users or if it needs to log-on to a domain controller. Anyway, it works now, thanks ! |
| Level42:
Now, being the perfectionist that I am :blah: :blah: :laugh2: I also want to hide the cursor. Googling for this brought me here, which is essentialy somewhat like Exages guide: http://tomspeirs.com/gameEx/Shell.htm I've taken the liberty to copy this from this site (hope it's ok, credits to the GameEx folks !: QUOTE: Right, now for the cursor! If this isn't changed at the logon level, you'll see the mouse cursor for around five seconds while windows loads your personal settings. This really spoils the effect! Download TweakUI: http://www.systemsmedic.com/DownloadFiles/TweakUIXP.exe NOTE: I got a newer version of this from MS and it was missing the option that I needed! Once this is installed, go to Control Panel>Mouse>Pointers and change all of your cursors to the one that you created earlier. Save this scheme as "MAME Single Point Cursor Set" or something. Don't apply this yet, it'll make things bloody hard to do! Right, the last thing to do is finish off making the cursor invisible. Go back to the cursor screen in control panel, load your scheme and hit apply. It'll be hard to see your cursor, which is why I left this till last! Squint your way into your start menu and open TweakUI. Go to the LOGON option, and somewhere there is the option to copy your wall paper etc. across to the Logon Screen. Hit apply and you're done! Restart your machine, and you should no longer notice windows at all! The only thing that really gives it away is the status bar scrolling on the boot screen, but you can get rid of this using BootEditor, but I think it's handy to have a guide as to whether or not the systems crashed! While you're in the front end, if you need to revert back to windows, press CtrlAltDelete, enter the task manager (you will have you mouse back at this point, if you can see it, or simply use the keyboard), end your Frontends, click on New Task, and type in explorer.exe. Taa Daa! Windows! Simply navigate to control panel with your invisible cursor (once you hit the start button things get easier!), and change your scheme back to the windows deault! Do your maintenance, and restart the machine. Back into your FE! Y ou like!?! END OF QUOTE I haven't yet tried it myself though !!! Will do in an hour or so ! |
| markb:
Congrats on an excellent post, putting it all together is going to save a lot of searchng and replying to posts. :cheers: |
| exiges:
--- Quote from: Level42 on May 06, 2006, 04:30:24 am ---Then I figured it was strange to set a "DisableStatusMessages" value to 0 because you'd think it would be turned off then (the disablement). So I switched it to 1 and TA-DA it works ! Exages, please update your initial post with this :) --- End quote --- D'OH !!! Done :) I've also updated the post to include a reference to Tom Spiers website. Do you have an icon "dot" graphic created that I can include in the "change cursor" instructions, rather than give instructions on creating that image file (which would be a pain for everyone) ? |
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