Turn off Aero shake registry tweak not working anymore (needs an ID)

On Windows 7 ultimate, the usual registry tweak to disable Aero shake, works fine...

Code:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer]
"NoWindowMinimizingShortcuts"=dword:00000001

When trying that on Windows 7 Enterprise x64, it no longer works, but I know why...

I used Nirsoft "Registry Changes View" to see what's happening when I apply the setting manually in Group Policy (on Windows 7 Enterprise) and I found that it puts the "NoWindowMinimizingShortcuts" setting in the above key as per normal, but it also adds it here too...

Code:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects\{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}User\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer]
"NoWindowMinimizingShortcuts"=dword:00000001

(XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX is a unique identifier I have blanked out here)

Does this make applying the tweak impossible?

I am sure this is something that happens because the Windows 7 edition is Enterprise?

The first tweak I listed (and the one posted everywhere) seems to work fine on Windows 7 Ultimate.

Thanks in advance.

Brink said:

Hello 10Fan,

Just to verify, did you restart the computer after changing the registry to apply?

Aero Shake - Enable or Disable

Yes.

I have VMware snapshots of 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 and 7 Enterprise x64 SP1 and can swap between them, the first tweak I posted definitely works on Ultimate, but doesn't on Enterprise.

It's not really a big deal, I can always open gpedit.msc and disable Aero shake but it's frustrating when there's a little hiccup like this, or a challenge, or whatever. I don't really care about it but I wonder why the same tweak doesn't work on Enterprise, vs Ultimate.

Cheers.

Brink said:

I'm not sure either since the policy in gpedit.msc modifies the exact same registry settings.

It doesn't.

On Ultimate it only changes the NoWindowMinimizingShortcuts entry under this key:

Code:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer]

On Enterprise, it changes that one the same way, but it also sets NoWindowMinimizingShortcuts under this key:

Code:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects\{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}User\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer]

There's no way I know of to set that in a reg script because it's using a unique identifier.