Common Windows SettingsSubmitted by dragonmage on June 5, 2008 - 12:57am
Ok this should be easy enough for someone to make. I picture a GUI with checkboxes for various Windows settings that a portableapps user might want changed. You would check the settings you want. When the app starts it would backup the hosts settings for these items and apply the "portable" ones, on exit it would restore the host. My first settings ideas are...
Everyone feel free to suggest more settings ideas. [bump deleted by moderator JTH. no bumping, please. (PS - yes moderators are supposed to note when they delete a bump like this)] ( categories: )
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That's a great idea. I hate it when I sit down at someone's computer and they have it set for the default Icons/Thumbnails view, hiding extensions and interesting files.
I know, I know, someone will say You should use Foo OSS File Explorer Portable instead!
-hea
show and hide the desktop
seen at http://www.freelists.org/archives/regtips/04-2004/msg00000.html
This script shows and hides the desktop.
rem ShowHide.vbs (save as)
rem First, make sure you manually create the NoDesktop dword value in the
rem registry for this to work(the script looks for the value and if it doesn't
rem exist, an error will result):
rem HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoDesktop
Dim WSHShell, n, p, itemtype
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
p = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoDesktop"
itemtype = "REG_DWORD"
n = WSHShell.RegRead (p)
If n = 0 Then
WshShell.RegWrite p, 1, itemtype
End If
If n = 1 Then
WshShell.Regwrite p, 0, itemtype
End If
Set WshShell = Nothing
For Each Process in GetObject("winmgmts:"). _
ExecQuery ("select * from Win32_Process where name='explorer.exe'")
Process.terminate(0)
Next
Mmmm, yummy idea!
How about
Start menu view (Standard / Classic)
Details view in Explorer (how I loathe "icons" view!)
Folders view in Explorer versus "Tasks" sidebar
Screen resolution
( I would add "DPI" setting, but you need admin rights to change that on my work pc, don't know if that is universal)
Ok, I had another idea about
Ok, I had another idea about this. This is not a bump ;)
If there are settings that can't be applied due to user or system restrictions, it should suppress individual messages for each setting, and just display one message that says "The following settings could not be applied"
That
was clearly a bump, luckily Kevin also replied, but please dont do it again.
'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
Excellent idea
I think this is an excellent idea. I've always hated it to go to someone's computer and find that they have extensions disabled, etc.
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