"Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My company resells windows machines, and we install our software, and > do a bunch of customization to make sure that all the desktop settings > are optimal... we adjust the screen resolution, color depth, and > referesh rate, remove shadows from menus and the mouse pointer, set > the power management options, disable the screensaver, etc... (very > long list) > > I've started doing most of what I want with ctypes: > > def disableShadows(): > # constants taken from WinUser.h in the PlatformSDK > SPI_SETCURSORSHADOW = 0x101B > rv = > ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoA(SPI_SETCURSORSHADOW, 0, > False, win32con.SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE) > > # remove shadows from menus > SPI_SETDROPSHADOW = 0x1025 > rv = ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoA(SPI_SETDROPSHADOW, > 0, False, win32con.SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE) > > But I'm finding that none of the changes seem to be permanent. I'm > wondering if I need to start changing the current Explorer theme > information instead, or go right to the registry and start changing > values. > > Desktop wallpaper changes work, but they aren't permanent... rebooting > restores the previous desktop wallpaper. > > Does anyone have any experience with this sort of system preperation > scripting?
>From looking at the MSDN docs, it seems you have to add SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE (Writes the new system-wide parameter setting to the user profile) to the last argument. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
