Settings: can we someday have them all ? (Question for Dino)

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Hi, please consider that I am formally still a beginner, so I apologize in advance in case there is some aspects of NTLite which I still ignore or which I understood wrongly.

The Settings section is *very* convenient, but at present it does not allow setting of all custom settings available from Windows Control Panel.
For example, I would like all my Windows installations to have the numeric keypad enabled by default (Windows always turns it off even if it is activated in the BIOS), and power plan set to max performance (i.e no power saving). Plus, I would like to have by default some custom performance settings, like no transparencies, no animations (ps the respective setting for the latter does not work in Win10), system protection enabled on C:\, no indexing, no maximize windows when dragged over the top border, and more.

The only way to achieve this, if I got it correctly, is modifying the ISO Registry by hand. But this is IMHO not very handy at present, because:
1. you must still identify the relevant keys and values, which requires usage of tools like Process Monitor and patience
2. if you modify the ISO Registry in the right box (the regedit way), all tweaks are NOT saved in the current NTLite Preset, so you can't have a Preset containing all tweaks, which would be more rational and convenient
3. if you inject hive files using the left box, once more they won't be embedded in the current Preset file, they shall be maintained/archived by hand together with the Presets (for backups and/or references) and also they shall be copied by hand to the final ISO folder (IIUC).

Therefore I am kindly asking if there are any plans for a future version of NTLite to have all or most Control Panel settings integrated in the Settings section, in addition to the ones already provided.
Thanks in advance
 
So actually you have to stroke a key after install or can make a sysprep to make it happen.
NUMlock is per default not ticked in a clean Windows install even with Reg tweaks.
 
Sorry, I don't quite understand what stroking a key or making a sysprep really mean, keep in mind that I am not an expert yet.
As for NUMLock, I use the numpad a lot and I really don't understand why Windows insists turning it off, despite it is enabled in the BIOS ! So that one must press Bloc Num everytime to enable it. Quite stupid... And there is no exposed setting for that, I mean, an average user should put his hands in the Registry to enable it by default ?? Makes no sense IMHO... However editing the ISO Registry setting HKCU/Control Panel/Keyboard/InitialKeyboardIndicators to 2 does the job. Sadly, this "tweak" can't be saved in Presets.
Also I can't use any 'reg' commands in PostSetup otherwise setup remains stuck at "Welcome..." after the first login, for some obscure reason (this applies even with no tweaks and no components removed).

My question was rather whether there are any plans to supply ALL control panel settings in the future, given some are there already...
 
francis11 said:
Much easier to add the regs inside NTL reg section instead of post-setup.
Click to expand...
Ok but if I add hive files will they be copied automatically to the Registry and/or ISO or I shall do that manually everytime ? Cos I read somewhere that you shall also copy those .reg files to the ISO manually after creation (misinformation ?)
 
Some regs can't be copied/ overwrited - especially in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. USER is the place to alter.
 
I integrate all registry keys via NTLite and no problem (HKLM, HKCU, HKCR)

Only a few keys are added after installation, because they are reset to "default" after installation if integrated into the image
 
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