Visual Effects Settings - Change

Hi guys, i'm trying to make an registry file to optimize apperance, but not working, what i wrong? see code below:

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects]
"VisualFXSetting"=dword:00000003
;0 = Let Windows choose what's best for my computer
;1 = Adjust for best appearance
;2 = Adjust for best performance
;3 = Custom


[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager]
"ThemeActive"="1"
;Use visual styles on windows and buttons (0=off 1=on)

;Here the keys you can set to 00000000 (off) or to 00000001 (on)

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\AnimateMinMax]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ComboBoxAnimation]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ControlAnimations]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\CursorShadow]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\DragFullWindows]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\DropShadow]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\DWMAeroPeekEnabled]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\DWMEnabled]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\DWMSaveThumbnailEnabled]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001
    
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListBoxSmoothScrolling]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListviewAlphaSelect]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListviewShadow]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\MenuAnimation]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\SelectionFade]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\TaskbarAnimations]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001

;[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\Themes]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ThumbnailsOrIcon]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\TooltipAnimation]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\TransparentGlass]
"DefaultApplied"=dword:00000001

Brink said:

Hello Valtersc, and welcome to Seven Forums.


Are you logging out and in to apply afterwards?

Thanks!

Yes, i running and testing in an Virtual Machine on VMWare, may have something to do? the above syntax is correct?

Brink said:

Those aren't the same registry settings that's in Option Two of the tutorial.

Now I gotta thank you!, I had followed a guide from another site and I was in doubt, I tried following the steps outlined here and it worked perfectly!.

Thank you!

I had a problem with the performance option.

Windows only allowed few option to be activated. I didn't have shadow under my mouse, no shadow under the windows, no fade menu and no fade tooltip ... When i choose "let windows choose what's the best", nothing changed. And when i changed to Custom, the shadow, etc... are unchecked without doing anything. Even if i checked all, log off and log on, the boxes are unchecked again.

I followed your instruction about regedit. I changed manually the UserPreferencesMask in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop. I had something little different (Instead of having 9E 3E 07 80 12 00 00 00 or 90 12 01 80 10 00 00 00 for exemple.). I had : 0E 2E 07 00 12 00 00 00. I changed those numbers for 9E 3E 07 00 12 00 00 00 but nothing worked (You wrote to change only the 3 first numbers ^.^). You can see that I had 00 instead of 80 for the fourth number.

So, i changed the fourth number to 80, and everything goes fine (So now, i have : 9E 3E 07 80 12 00 00 00). I don't know why the fourth number was 00 instead of 80 but the problem came from that. I write this to help people if they have the same problem.

Thanks for your tutorial, very helpful :)

Quick question, what does "If you apply any changes in the Control Panel -> Ease of Access Center, your visual effects settings will automatically get reset back to default" mean? I'm following the guide to optimize windows 7 and it states to turn off visual effects AND enable option in ease of access to turn off animations when necessary. Does this mean that if I manually disable the visual settings and enable this option that the manual visual settings will go back to default? I think that I've checked my settings after turning off unnecessary animations in EOA, but they didn't reset back to default.