Editing Client's Registry with GPO (VisualFX regkey)

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Hi Johan,

Pls check this out.

Implementing Registry-Based Group Policy
http://www.microsoft.com/windows20 [...] ppaper.asp

br,
Denis

"Johan Bodenstein" <Johan Bodenstein@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:A7EEF6D1-6969-42EE-A51C-E8A415981B8E@microsoft.com...
> Hi, I want to increase my client's desktop performance by disabling all
the
> visual effect's from XP. I found the right reg key which is:
>
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Visual
Effects]
> "VisualFXSetting"=dword:00000002
> Where value 2 is for best performance. This modification works if you run
an
> exported .reg file to merge the key, and you can see the new setting under
> system\advanced\performance\visual effects. But there is no change in the
> desktop even after restart. I want to implement this into my GPO but when
I
> test it locally with the .reg merge nothing happens. Am I missing
something
> here, or how do you refresh windows to detect the new setting?