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More info?)
Thanks David.
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Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
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"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
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The first problem is that it's a reg file so only if you want Kelly's
preferences.
The user preference mask is a hexadecimal representation of bit values. To
set use Windows Calculator and the values from the table below.
To use Windows Calculator take the value from UserPreferencesMask and AND it
with the value from the table below.
a.. Put the value from the table below into Calculator in Hex mode
b.. Press AND
c.. Take the value from from user preferences (in this sample 000000fd as
it's byte order reversed).
d.. If it is set it will return the same value as the table below, if it's
not set it will return 0
Bit 0 is 2^0 = 1, Bit 2 is 2^1 = 2, Bit 3 is 2^2 = 4, Bit 4 is 2^3 = 8, Bit
5 is 2^4 = 0x10 (16),..., Bit n is 2^(n-1).
Byte order reversed is how numbers are stored as binary.
9e 3e 07 80 = DWord (in hexidecimal) 80 07 3e 9e = 0x80073e9e
90,32,07,80 = 80 07 32 90 = 0x80073290
Bit UI Setting Default Value Meaning
0 Active window tracking 0 Active window tracking disabled.
1 Menu animation 1 Menu animation enabled; menu effect depends on
value of bit 9.
2 Combo box animation 1 Slide-open effect for combo boxes enabled.
3 List box smooth scrolling 1 Smooth-scrolling effect for list boxes
enabled.
4 Gradient captions 1 Gradient effect for window title bars enabled.
5 Keyboard cues 0 Menu access key letters underlined only when the
menu is activated from the keyboard.
6 Active window tracking Z order 0 Windows activated through active
window tracking are not brought to the top.
7 Hot tracking 1 Hot tracking enabled.
8 Reserved 0 This bit reserved for future use.
9 Menu fade 1 Menu fade animation enabled. If menu fade animation is
disabled, menus use slide animation. This bit is ignored if menu animation
(bit 1) is disabled.
10 Selection fade 1 Selection fade enabled; the selected menu will
remain on the screen briefly and then fade out after the user makes a
selection.
11 Tool tip animation 1 Tool tip animation enabled; effect depends on
value of bit 12.
12 Tool tip fade 1 Tool tip fade animation enabled. If tool tip fade
animation is disabled, tool tips use slide animation. This bit is ignored if
tool tip animation (bit 11) is disabled.
13 Cursor shadow 1 Cursor shadow is enabled. This effect only appears
if the system has a color depth of more than 256 colors.
14-30 Reserved 0 These bits reserved for future use.
31 UI effects 1 All UI effects (combo box animation, cursor shadow,
gradient captions, hot tracking, list box smooth scrolling, menu animation,
menu underlines, selection fade, tool tip animation) are enabled.
So this reg file does the following.
0x80073290
Bit 0 (1 or 0x1) not set so XMouse Off
Bit 1 (2 or 0x2) not set so Menu Animation Off
Bit 2 (4 or 0x4) not set so Combo Box Animation Off
Bit 3 (8 or 0x8) not set so List Box Smooth Scrolling Off
Bit 4 (16 or 0x10) IS set so Gradient Captions On
Bit 5 (32 or 0x20) not set so Don't Always Show Underlined Letters in Menus
Bit 6 (64 or 0x40) not set so Don't Bring Windows To Top (for XMouse)
Bit 7 (128 or 0x80) IS set so Tooltips Hidden (on Max/Min/Restore/Close
buttons) - this is not a default setting
Bit 8 (256 or 0x100) not set but does nothing anyway
Bit 9 (512 or 0x200) IS set so Menu Fade ON (if menu animation is also on)
Bit 10 (1024 or 0x400) not set so Selection Fade Off
Bit 11 (2048 or 0x800) not set so Tooltip Animation Off
[Just a pause here - 0x10 + 0x80 + 0x200 = 0x290 so we are correct so far)
Bit 12 (4096 or 0x1000) IS set so tooltips will fade, not slide, if they are
enabled
Bit 13 (8192 or 0x2000) IS set so Cursor Shadow ON
[Just a pause here - 0x290 + 0x1000 + 0x2000 = 0x3290 so we are correct so
far)
We also have 0x10000 (bit 16) 0x20000 (bit 17) and 0x40000 (bit 18) set.
Also Bit 31 is also set (0x80000000).
0x8000 0000 All UI Effects (bit 31)#
0x0004 0000 Undocumented (bit 18)*
0x0002 0000 Undocumented (bit 17)*
0x0001 0000 Undocumented (bit 16)*
0x0000 3290 (listed above)
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0x8007 3290
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# Everyone has this set. Not sure of the point of it.
* They are undocumented because the Docs are for Win 2000 not XP. I'm not
aware of a XP equiv for Technical References To The Windows 2000 Registry
(part of Win2000 Server Resource Kit). These are presumably XP specific
settings. Programmers call SystemParametersInfo and windows looks after
storing the data here.
So merging this file does all of the above.
The second problem is that none of these affect the problem. I know she
tested it but it randomly occurs and randomly fixes itself. I've tested it
not to work. Doing anything and one may discovered it has been fixed but
that doesn't make it causal.
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"Galen" <galennews@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:uOMqmsQQFHA.2604@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> In news:%23UeqOmQQFHA.356@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl,
> David Candy <.> had this to say:
>
> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>
>> Well it won't.
>
> No?
>
> Hmm... Maybe someone should tell Kelly this?
>
> Galen
> --
> Signature changed for a moment of silence.
> Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side.
>
>
I am fully appreciative though. I 
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