Can't make changes in the default Administrator Account. I'm talking basic stuff here. Can't unlock the taskbar. Resize or move the taskbar around. Not to the same monitor or to another Which is what I want to do. I can't do other things similar to this such as changing the environment a bit. I don't know what else is blocked because I really don't spend any time in that account but if these basic functions are blocked you KNOW there are more serious things that are blocked as well.
I created a new Administrator account and it has the same issues.
I mean isn't the default Administrator's Account supposed to be able to do EVERYTHING WITHOUT verification. I am unable to make even basic changes. I can't change the view of Windows Explorer. I change the default computer view from Tiles to Details and the next Explorer window that comes up has it back at tile view. I tried to get windows to show file extensions and it won't even though I uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types" in Folder Options.
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I' building a webapp that reads the database based on time to check changes. When there is a change, a notification in windows displays so the user is notified.
Chrome-> Dots menu-> More settings-> Create shortcut (as window) (Roghly Translated)
The problem is that the user needs to have the webapp opened so it is working and doing the before mentioned task. I thought a solution could be to run the shorcut on startup as a service or something (maybe in the icons next to the taskbar clock). But I don't know if this is the best approach or how to do that.
That's why I'm asking for help to find the best approach and if it is the one I'm thinking, to know how could I do that.
i have been trying to get a windows startup/shutdown sound to play, i couldn't get the sounds to play so i asked on Microsoft, here is the link https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/cannot-change-windows-start-up-sound/8bbcb0a0-1402-4f1e-b080-9c8d526bc205
and i was told that its not possible. well too bad because i am not going to stop there, so i went to local group policy editor on windows 10 where you can choose scripts to run during shutdown and start up. i then wrote a very small PowerShell command with the file name of "shutdown.ps1" the code inside of shutdown.ps1 is
start "C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Scripts\Shutdown\TADA.wav"
this file is located in the C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Scripts\Shutdown directory along with the TADA.wav file that it plays when it shuts down.
now the issue i am having is that when windows is shutting down, its ending all processes so it does not play the sound. what can i do to change that?
I'm pretty new to all of this and am very grateful for any input you can give.
thanks in advance,
Devin
From How to Change the Windows 10 Logoff, Logon, and Shutdown Sounds in Windows 10:
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While you can still customize what sounds sounds play for most OS events, Windows 10 hid shut down, logoff, and logon from view. They’re still around, though. You just need to make a few mild changes in the Windows Registry to get them back.
Add the Actions Back to the Sound Control Panel by Editing the Registry
To add the shutdown, logoff, and logon actions back to the menu in the Sound Control Panel app, you just need to make a few little tweaks in the Windows Registry.
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Open the Registry Editor by hitting Start and typing “regedit.” Press Enter to open Registry Editor and then give it permission to make changes to your PC.
In the Registry Editor, use the left sidebar to navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\EventLabels
You’re going to be making one small change in each of three different subkeys inside that EventLabels key. First, we’ll tackle the shutdown sound or, as Windows likes to call it, System Exit. Under the EventLabels key on the left side of Registry Editor, select the SystemExit subkey. On the right side, double-click the ExcludeFromCPL value.
Note that by default, the value is 1, meaning that the action is excluded from the Control Panel. Change the value to 0 and then click “OK.”
Next, you’re going to make exactly the same change in two other subkeys inside the EventLabels key: WindowsLogoff and WindowsLogon. Head into each of those folders, open the ExcludeFromCPL value inside, and change the value from 1 to 0.
No need to restart Windows. You can go ahead and test your changes right away. Open up the Sound Control Panel app by right-clicking the speaker icon in your Notification Area and selecting “Sounds.” 1
You should now see the new actions (Exit Windows, Windows Logoff, and Windows Logon) available in the selection window and you can assign whatever sounds you like to those actions.
If, for whatever reason, you want to hide those actions from the Control Panel again, just head back into Registry Editor and change each of those ExcludeFromCPL values back to 1.
1: On my machine, to get to the Sounds control panel, I had to go into the Settings, choose "Personalization", then "Themes", then `Sounds".
UPDATE:
And indeed, all three sound events show up in my Sounds control panel once I re-enable them in the Registry. However, I tried assigning audio files to them, and although Windows remembered the assignments, nothing played when invoking those actions.
So, I guess the playback functionality is simply not implemented for those events anymore. This seems to be confirmed in your discussion with a Microsoft Insider on answers.microsoft.com (with an 89% upvote rate of 143K replies, I would think he knows what he's talking about):
In Windows 10 there is no way to change the Windows Startup Sound, that sound is set permanently in a DLL in Windows, it is not an audio file like the other system sounds, and even when you turn on the Startup sound on that dialog, sometimes the startup sound will play and other times it will not, this is a known bug in Windows 10, which seems to have been fixed in Windows 11
Windows10 does not support a shutdown sound like previous versions of Windows, you wil find many methods posted online, sadly, none of them work.
Every time we log in to a windows account on a computer at work, the mouse layout is changed to a not-so-popular and for us impractical layout. I will not cover the technical details of why this happens and neither can I indulge why we are not able to fix the root cause. (It just is, like some people are forced to work with IE8 because sysadmins...) The point is that every time an employee logs on to a computer, they have to manually go to control panel, select the mouse options, change the mouse layout to the more common "windows aero theme" and apply this change.
I would like to write a batch script that does this action for me, and I would like to put this batch file in my startup directory so it is performed automatically. Can a batch script do this and if so, where can I find an example of the appropriate commands? You can assume each user had administrator rights.
Another challenge: our computers are thin clients, so when we "log on" all wo do is perform a remote desktop connection to our personal virtual machine on the network. We're not really booting any OS.
Any help is appreciated.
I need to know if the user has hidden an icon added by my program to the system tray area.
Is it technically feasible?
UPDATE
My program - yowindow displays the current temperature in the system-tray icon.
I want to spare the server load by not auto-updating the weather for the users who don't see the tray-icon.
No.
And what would you do with this information, even if you had it?
(caveat - I guess you could do a screen-grab, work out where the taskbar is, figure out where the system tray is, "parse" out each icon, then bitmap compare each against your own icon. But really...)
It might be worth your while looking at this related question
Based on first Edit to question
I can see your point. But look at it from the windows API designer's POV. They provided a facility for icons to be created in an "always visible" manner. And every man+dog went ahead and put an icon in there, on the presumption that the user would always want to know about their product (please note, I'm not claiming that you're in this group here).
They've noticed this runaway behavior, and whilst they can't now take away the ability to create these icons, they want to give the user control.
Now we come to the problem. Imagine, for a second, that you're a less than enlightened developer. And if you detect that your icon has been hidden, you pop up a message prompting the user to un-hide your icon. Maybe you do this once per login. Maybe you do it every half an hour. It's just a general level of user annoyance, similar to having 40 icons appear in the tray, when the user doesn't care about most of them
The question is - if you were designing an API to allow developers to discover whether their icon is, in fact, hidden. How do you allow your benign usage, whilst preventing the behavior in the previous paragraph? Spend a few minutes trying to pretend to be a windows API designer, and try to write the necessary function(s) (for the sake of argument, assume the annoying developers aren't willing to implement the IAmEvil interface, or whatever, or would be willing to implement the IOnlyDoGood interface...)
Hopefully, your icon is useful, and users will either a) show your icon, or b) remove your application (if it's not doing what they want/need)
There is no API function for that as far as I know, and there's no good solution to the problem. You could directly after the installation show a message from the tray telling the user that the icon may be hidden. Not that it will help, but it's all you can do. I've seen programs that bug the user by periodically showing that message but this is really NOT a good thing to do.
new Windows 7 hides systray icons by default.
what is the recommended way to show information to users now?
I need to have a small clickable icon visible to user so user can access my "tool" anytime. Should I use the gadget to show my GUI instead? Can it communicate with my Delphi app somehow?
Without more information it's a little difficult to provide a recommendation.
However, I would imagine that a sufficiently important tool, the user would simply keep minimized. They could then use Jumplists to access quick functionality.
For example, Live Messenger uses this setup on Win7.
If your users really like your icon/application they can always choose to not hide your application.
The only difference is that only the user can choose which icon is shown, instead of every application claiming it's "real estate".
In my opinion this is a good functionality and if I were you I wouldn't change the application, just provide a first run GUI which explains how to make your tray icon visible in windows 7.
The entire reason why change was made, was to stop programs like yours. If you need to show information, go ahead and do so. But the notification areas ("systray") is not where shortcuts go. For that, you've got the start menu, desktop and/or the quick launch bar (and please let the user decide).