If you right-click on the taskbar, you can get to the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog and change various settings. Is there some way to change these settings from a C++ (preferably) or VB program? Alternatively, is there a way to change these settings with a registry import? I've looked through the registry and haven't found where they are stored.
View 7 RepliesWould you like to use the registry to set the color of aero glass on your PC? The registry setting requires an ARGB (Alpha, Red, Green, Blue) hex string for this setting. This is not very easy to create on your own so I wrote a simple decimal to hex converter below that will automatically convert the values and generate the setting value for you. Follow these steps to get started:
Open Registry Editor and navigate through HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software, Microsoft, Windows and DWM...
first enable the "Run" button in the start menu in the "Taskbar Properties". here's a work around to Activate Vista Build 5219, 5231, 5270, 5308, (or earlier) and later maybe... Start > Run > msconfig > Permit Folder "Services"
uncheck the "Software Licensing Service"
uncheck the "SL UI Notification Service"
Apply Close Restart Your machine will then tell you, this machine is unlicensed! If this does not work for you there is also a CD Key circulating around which allows you to activate. PM a member to find out. I Havnt tried this personally since I already activated my copy legally, if anyone could try it and report back. But from the peopel who have they say it works.
How do I or how can I change the look of my task bar with having to buy a program. I kinda like the look of apples task bar, icons across the bottom. Any ideas. Thanks
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am a bit of a newbie so a step-by-step guide
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm running Windows Vista Ultimate with "Aero" and I'd like to turn off the transparency of the taskbar and perhaps also change its color (currently two shades of gray) without disabling "Aero" and without changing the transparency or color effects of other windows. Is this possible? Are there options within Windows or free 3rd party apps that can do this? I've seen this question posed before but with no satisfactory answer.
I notice that maximizing a window makes the taskbar appear opaque, but then I can't see the desktop. I'd like the taskbar to be opaque all the time. I also notice that using a background that's black at the bottom can make the taskbar appear opaque, but that prevents you from having fun with different backgrounds.
Would you like to change the time format in the taskbar to military or international time format?
Click on the Start Button, type in intl.cpl and hit Enter.
Click the Customize this format button.
Click on the Time tab.
Change the time format to H:mm:ss and hit OK.
Hit OK once more to close Regional and Language Options.
Nickle, thanks for sending this tip in!
when i open *regedit* or msconfig in run,both opend in notepad with eccrypted format.I am *not* able to see msconfig and *regedit*. and i event cant change folder name
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs it good idea to configure Regedit to Enable in the Local Group Policy Editor? I checked it and it says it's not configured it's not enabled either? Do i just leave it ALONE or configure it?
View 7 Replies View RelatedNo sound: it's just not working, and whenever I try to change the volume from the taskbar, a window pops up saying "Volume Control Applet is not responding". Also when I right-click on the sound icon and go to 'playback devices' and then go to the recording tab, it freezes (the window) and says "Windows Shell Common dll is not responding. (I don't know if this is related but my iTunes isn't working, I double-click to listen but the little time bar at the top doesn't move at all, but the window does not freeze)
View 9 Replies View Relatedi type something into start/search it keeps taking me to ''search results in indexed locations'' folder. no matter what i search for it just goes to this folder.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI used a very convenient little tool which was coloring a folder/key in the left pane of regedit with a different color. Vista's colors are too subdued for me.
View 6 Replies View RelatedAfter having some difficulty with "the black screen of death" and coming to the realization that my CA anti-virus wasn't picking up the bug that was causing my problems, I've switched to Norton 360 and eliminated the virus that was giving me fits. However, now that I've got my desktop back and things seem to be (a bit more) back to normal, I can't open my task manager or get into my disk manager or registry editor. The task manager just simply won't show up as an option and opening mmc/regedit just brings up the notepad.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi just read brinks discussion on removing the desktop from the personalize window and i was just wondering how to get that back the active desktop feature in regedit
View 9 Replies View Relatedhave home premium 32bit. When trying to download 15 day trial web i get the pop up widow to allow however the file listed is dfsvc.exe and not the program file. The program owner and I have tried to find the error but can't. Have scaneed withe AVG,Spybot and a couple of online programs and all say no threat. Using regedit I can't find this dfsvc file. To see if this problem would repeat I downloaded a board game and no problem.
View 8 Replies View RelatedIn Windows Vista, when right-click the drive, Properties, the "Explore' and "Open" show "????(X)" and "??(O)" repectively.
View 7 Replies View Relatedi was using a tweak guide to help speed up my computer running Vista Ultimate 64bit. I must have unchecked a box that turns off the display of picture properties as you hover the pointer over the picture. I don't even remember what it is called anymore so it makes it hard to find out where i must have unchecked it at. If anyone knows where in my OS i could find this and get it back i would truly appreciate it. Didn't think i would miss it, but i do.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I display the properties of Drive C: it reports 59.1 gb. I just did a full backup of drive C: (non-compressed) and it reports: Folders Created: 17173; Files Copied: 143024 (26949973990 bytes) A command window DIR /s command reports:
Total Files Listed:
143602 File(s) 27,910,122,018 bytes
50788 Dir(s) 177,102,209,024 bytes free
A command window DIR /ah /s command reports:
Total Files Listed:
610 File(s) 4,401,421,364 bytes
354 Dir(s) 177,102,209,024 bytes free
The total of the two above is about 30 gb Where is the other approx 33 gb?
I wanted to copy my Favorites to a flash drive to put on another computer. Some of the files showed a message saying: Property Loss. The File has properties that cannot be copied to the new location. Are you sure you want to copy the file without its properties? It gave me the choices = Yes, Skip, Cancel.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just noticed that everything under the HP printer's properties is grayed out and so I cannot change anything. I thought ownership/privileges could be the cause of my not being able to print from this test VISTA machine over my LAN to the HP AIO printer which is connected directly via USB on my XP machine. But I can't change anything - I notice other things (e.g. share name) are grayed out also preventing change. At the very least I want to be able to regain control of all this. Remember - I can print in reverse over my LAN (using another printer). That is, from my XP machine to the EPSON printer connected to this test VISTA machine. I seem to be able to access and change files/folders at will from each machine to the other - so I feel I must have my LAN set up at least nearly correctly. Yes, I have turned User Account Control off.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm connecting two PCs one of which is connected to the inet through a USB ADSL modem and both are connected through an Ethernet switch, the properties of the LAN Card connection on the first PC (which is running Windows Vista) has No Sharing Tap for sharing the internet to apply ICS (Internet Connection Sharing).
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am trying to delete files from my Sansa Express which I use as an external USB drive. When I try to delete at the folder level, Vista tells me the "storage is write-protected" and that I should remove write-protection and try again. I am able to delete the files individually, however, with no problem at all. When I go to Properties, the folders are read-only. The individual files are not read-only, and they delete fine individually. The problem is only encountered when I select a folder and try to delete it. I can not disable read-only from Properties, because it is grayed out. It may or may not be relevant that most of these folders were loaded onto the drive from my other computer, which runs XP. However, not all those folders are running into this problem: only the ones which say "read-only" in Properties.
Things I've already tried: There is no write-protection switch on the device. There is a hold switch, and that is definitely in the off position. So a switch is not the issue here. I've gone through the lengthy and confusing process of taking ownership of files before, but there is no way to do that here. The only tab in the Properties screen is "General" and there's nothing in there I can click on or change. I've also tried running Windows Explorer as Administrator, but that doesn't help either. Formatting the drive is not a practical solution for me, because I can't just format it every time I encounter this problem.
I'm trying to export messages so I can import to another computer. Everytime I select an external drive (USB, HD, etc) I get an export error indicating the drive may be full or sometihng is wrong with the files. If I export to same PC, it works but when I try to copy and paste on external USB/HD I am asked if I want to go ahead when all properties are not transferrable. When I go ahead and import messages on othr PC, I get mail entries in the various boxes but no mail info.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy computer locked and i had to push the on/off button to release. I did a restart which took a long time. Everything is working ok now, but the 'volume, power, and network' icons on the bottom right of my screen have disappeared and will not turn back on. I go to properties (right click on the lower bar) and pull up 'task bar and start menu properties.' The 3 icons i want on are listed but greyed out on the 'notification' area of that window and will not click on.
How do I get these to turn on?
As above really, also some desktop icons are now appearing as blank (small white box). I have recently installed updated, correct drivers. How do I get these icons back. Most of my icons are fine, its just a few that are missing, mainly .sis
files, which are Nokia applications.
Today I noticed that the little volume meter next to each device under "Recording Devices" (Right-click your little speaker in the task bar and select Recording Devices) has disappeared. I know it disappeared either today or yesterday. I haven't done anything that could have messed with it. Do you guys know how I can get it back?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've been ripping CD's to disk. During this process, there are 2 folders that have files in them, I can listen to them, but 'properties' shows that the folders contain 0 bytes. If I try and move either of these folders or delete them I get the message that the folder is no longer in that location, but I can still play the files inside these folders! I've tried renaming them, but as they aren't where they're supposed to be - I can't............
View 8 Replies View Relatedon outlook 2003, when opening a first email in the morning the properties box for that email pops up on the screen. Is there any setting causing that thing? does anyone know that setting?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have seen quite a few other cases of this online but so far NOONE has an answer!! I have been struggling trying to get my 360 connected to pc via ICS after upgrading on vista (worked fine on xp). Now the weirdest thing has happened. I have previously enabled ICS for my wireless connection, but now when I go to properties the entire tab for sharing has disappeared. So I can no longer disable it... or do anything sharing related. It was definately there before!! And the connection is showing up as shared... but now I cannot get back to this tab! As I said there are other cases of this online but noone has found
View 6 Replies View RelatedI had to reinstall Windows Vista Ultimate which prior to the reinstall had SP 1 installed. After this reinstall SP1 does not show in computer properties. Is SP1 still available somewhere on the computer for upgrading or will I have to use Windows Update to apply it?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhat is the Vista equivalent to XP's?
--> Display properties,
--> Desktop (tab)
--> Customize desktop (button)
And, is there a such thing as XP's "My Computer" icon in Vista?