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Darq:

Here's a link to explain all the services.  Maybe this can help weed out any others.  http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12

Bill Mote:


--- Quote from: Darq on October 21, 2006, 10:35:02 am ---Here's a link to explain all the services.  Maybe this can help weed out any others.  http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12

--- End quote ---

There are a *lot* of sites around the net that can provide assistance with which services should/should-not be running.  Thank you for providing a link.  It was important to note, and I did not, that I'm running Windows XP w/SP1 and not SP2.  That's why there may appear to be services missing from my manual/stopped list.  I'm pretty sure I have ~10 Windows Services running.  Arguably those are the only necessary services (as things are running as expected.)  I'll post the services I left on automatic/running.  That may be more useful than a list of services I stopped.

Thanks for the reply!

dot

Bill Mote:

Some more registry files ...

DisableBalloonTips:

--- Code: ---Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000
--- End code ---

DisableStatusMessages:

--- Code: ---Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]
"DisableStatusMessages"=dword:00000001
--- End code ---

HideLoginBackground:

--- Code: ---Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors]
"Background"="0 0 0"
--- End code ---

ReplaceShell:

--- Code: ---Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot]
"Shell"="USR:Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"Shell"="c:\\MAMEwah\\mamewah.exe"
--- End code ---

Obviously, you need to set the correct path to your Front End.  Here's a continuation of the steps:


--- Code: ---27. Ran system file setup from MameWAH site.
28. Turn off "Users must enter a username and password to use this computer" by doing Start->Run->control userpasswords2 and unchecking the option box.
29. Copied MAME folder to D-drive.
30. Change SYS to USR to replace shell.  .REG file stored on D.
31. Add Shell entry for current_user.  .REG file stored on D.

--- End code ---

dot

Bill Mote:


--- Code: ---32. I googled "1 pixel mouse cursor mame" and downloaded pix.cur from a site into c:\windows\cursors.
33. Applied change to registry to replace default arror with 1 pixel cursor
--- End code ---

ReplaceArrowWith1PIXCursor:

--- Code: ---Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Cursors]
"Arrow"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,59,00,53,00,54,00,45,00,4d,00,52,00,4f,00,4f,00,54,\
  00,25,00,5c,00,43,00,75,00,72,00,73,00,6f,00,72,00,73,00,5c,00,70,00,69,00,\
  78,00,2e,00,63,00,75,00,72,00,00,00
--- End code ---

dot

jfh2112:


--- Quote from: dot on October 21, 2006, 07:53:01 am ---Final OS cleanup:

--- Code: ---REGEDIT4

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RecentDocs]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ComDlg32\LastVisitedMRU]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Search Assistant\ACMru]
--- End code ---

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I take it that adding the dash in front of the keys deletes them? That's handy. <making notes>

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