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How to toggle X-Mouse?

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HerbF@earthlink.net

Flightless Bird
TweakUI has a great feature (for me)...X-mouse, where window activation
follows the mouse. I'd like to make two shortcuts to toggle this feature
without having to launch tweakUI every time. Does anyone know what I
should do?

Herb
 
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VanguardLH

Flightless Bird
HerbF@earthlink.net wrote:

> TweakUI has a great feature (for me)...X-mouse, where window activation
> follows the mouse. I'd like to make two shortcuts to toggle this feature
> without having to launch tweakUI every time. Does anyone know what I
> should do?
>
> Herb

It's probably a registry entry that gets changed by TweakUI. Use something
like Epsilon Squared's InstallWatch (free) to monitor changes. Take a
snapshot before the change, make the change, and analyze the changes. The
changes are recorded so you can review them. Then check which registry item
got modified. You can then create .reg files that specify the before and
after values and then create shortcuts to those .reg files to make it easy
to toggle between those settings. When creating the shortcut, use
"regedit.exe /s <file>.reg". The /s parameter eliminates the security
prompt alerting you to an attempted change to the registry. Of course, you
might want to keep the prompt (remove the /s parameter) just in case you
fat-finger the shortcut when you didn't mean to do so.
 
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HerbF@earthlink.net

Flightless Bird
VanguardLH wrote:

>HerbF@earthlink.net wrote:
>
>> TweakUI has a great feature (for me)...X-mouse, where window activation
>> follows the mouse. I'd like to make two shortcuts to toggle this feature
>> without having to launch tweakUI every time. Does anyone know what I
>> should do?
>>
>> Herb
>
>It's probably a registry entry that gets changed by TweakUI. Use something
>like Epsilon Squared's InstallWatch (free) to monitor changes. Take a
>snapshot before the change, make the change, and analyze the changes. The
>changes are recorded so you can review them. Then check which registry item
>got modified. You can then create .reg files that specify the before and
>after values and then create shortcuts to those .reg files to make it easy
>to toggle between those settings. When creating the shortcut, use
>"regedit.exe /s <file>.reg". The /s parameter eliminates the security
>prompt alerting you to an attempted change to the registry. Of course, you
>might want to keep the prompt (remove the /s parameter) just in case you
>fat-finger the shortcut when you didn't mean to do so.

I already know which registry keys are changed, but I don't know how to
refresh the registry or the key values.

H
 
B

Bob I

Flightless Bird
HerbF@earthlink.net wrote:

> VanguardLH wrote:
>
>
>>HerbF@earthlink.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>>TweakUI has a great feature (for me)...X-mouse, where window activation
>>>follows the mouse. I'd like to make two shortcuts to toggle this feature
>>>without having to launch tweakUI every time. Does anyone know what I
>>>should do?
>>>
>>>Herb
>>
>>It's probably a registry entry that gets changed by TweakUI. Use something
>>like Epsilon Squared's InstallWatch (free) to monitor changes. Take a
>>snapshot before the change, make the change, and analyze the changes. The
>>changes are recorded so you can review them. Then check which registry item
>>got modified. You can then create .reg files that specify the before and
>>after values and then create shortcuts to those .reg files to make it easy
>>to toggle between those settings. When creating the shortcut, use
>>"regedit.exe /s <file>.reg". The /s parameter eliminates the security
>>prompt alerting you to an attempted change to the registry. Of course, you
>>might want to keep the prompt (remove the /s parameter) just in case you
>>fat-finger the shortcut when you didn't mean to do so.
>
>
> I already know which registry keys are changed, but I don't know how to
> refresh the registry or the key values.
>


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...les&aq=0&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=writing+reg+&gs_rfai=
 
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Twayne

Flightless Bird
In news:2icus5l1b2cflq7u10edj5g6g5vq5i3jif@4ax.com,
HerbF@earthlink.net <HerbF@earthlink.net> typed:
> TweakUI has a great feature (for me)...X-mouse, where
> window activation follows the mouse. I'd like to make two
> shortcuts to toggle this feature without having to launch
> tweakUI every time. Does anyone know what I should do?
>
> Herb

I don't have time to look it up, but local group policy editor is what you
want. Just set it up. I'm using it now.

Maybe you can do what I did: Run twaekui, then go see which policies were
done at that date/time. Note & record which & the settings while you're
there.

Twayne`
 
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