Solved Compiling a truck load of registry tweaks


antspants said:
My concern is; I probably have over 40 registry tweaks. Does anyone see a problem with performing that many tweaks in one nuclear swoop? I don’t believe there are any conflicts between the tweaks, they are carefully selected and categorised in my PC.
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In practice, as everyone else has replied, you won't have a problem. But...

Registry tweaks come in different kinds. The most obvious distinction is between machine wide (targetted at HKLM) and user level (targetted at HKCU).
Some HKLM tweaks require special handling. If by default Administrators don't have write permissions - usually because the key is owned by Trusted Installer, then they won't install from a normal elevated regedit . These should be separated. You'll need a script or special tool to install these.
Some HKCU tweaks are targetted at the group policy registry areas ( under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies and/or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies) - these won't install for unprivileged users, and elevating to a different account will install them for that account. The easiest way to deal with these is to run an elevated regedit, find the users registry under HKU and change the permissions on these keys.
Tweaks targetted at HKCR are generally a bad idea. If you translate them to point at HKLM\Software\Classes or HKCU\Software\Classes then at least you know where they are going.

Tweaking programs such as Winaero Tweaker generally require elevation, but will perform tweaks in HKCU, so they only work for users who are members of Administrators. My normal account isn't a member of Administrators so I can't use these programs. I can usually work out a way of performing the personalisation tweaks I want without admin rights - although the explanations here and from Winaero are often helpful.

And notes about what you have done are useful, as finding the changes you've made can be hard. Or impossible.

Mike
 

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:-) I’m well aware of registry files and the workings of tweaks, I’ve been around a bit, thank you. That wasn’t the query.

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The question was if Windows liked being smacked in the face with a wet mullet that has a mouthful of tweaks in it, all at once (y)
 

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Many of the tweaks and scripts that I use during an OS install, I've gathered right here in the forums, (Thank you Shawn)
and many of them are just One Liners. It's easy to put them in a list, like in Wordpad where they can be run as one file, under one name.

I especially like the one (thank you Shawn) the forces a new restore point to be created. I put that one in my STARTUP folder, so it runs on every Boot Up.

I'm glad to hear that someone else has come to the same conclusion, about grouping tweaks together for faster execution.

Cheers Mates!

TM :cool:
PM: I've discovered, that since installing the latest Windows 11, 24H2 from X-Lite, that I don't have to tweak it, hardly at all. Most of the necessary tweaking had already been done. That makes it convenient for those who are not natural Tweakers.
 

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antspants said:
The question was if Windows liked being smacked in the face with a wet mullet that has a mouthful of tweaks in it, all at once (y)
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This should not be an issue as the registry is like a database anyway.
It might be useful to put them in hive sequence though, just for logic alone.
 

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Load the .reg scripts in any sequence you like, , , Windows just don't care. The Windows Registry is Random Access, like everything else in Windows.

I have several 'Performance enhancing tweaks' that I install on every new Windows Install, and they are all ganged together in one .reg file.
Then there are specialty tweaks, that I keep separate and run only when and if needed. Thank you "Shawn".
The new OS's I'm running today, come to me with so many tweaks already installed, that my installs go much faster.
Windows 11 from X-Lite, for instance, is pretty much "Plug N Play". Full install in < 10 minutes, with no stupid questions.

Cheers Mates!
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