how to remove "for testing purposes only" from your desktop (beta sp1 related)

shuki · Jul 1, 2002, 09:51 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Crash Override
the only way to get rid of it is worse than having it lol

basically right click on your desktop and hit properties

choose the desktop tab click on the customize desktop button

click on the web button and check Lock Desktop Items.

Press ok then press Apply in the main screen

Only problem is this means you lose icon transparencies

Quote:

Originally posted by Crash Override
On a single color desktop you wont notice the missing transparenices at all

On a colored desktop however you will....let me posts a couple screenies below

oO notice the 2 areas in the photo I have circled in white.

the icons on the top one have transparent shadowing (only for the Windows Media Player File Icon and the Trash Icon. All three however have
transparent text background enabled)

Now in the bottom picture as you can see the testing text has disappeared but if you look at the icons the transparent text background is now disabled so
the background there is gray (the default windows background color for XP) and now instead of having the transparent shadows on the WMP file icon you
can see a black line underneath it that was only a light gray in the top picture (yeah I know the pics are small......had to resize for our 56k users ). And
also look closer at the trash icon. See the 2 odd shapes to the left and right......look at the top picture now.......they arent there....
another use of subtle shadowning that XP allows when in standard mode to give icons a more real feel

~~David~~ · Jul 1, 2002, 10:33 AM

stickyfied! thanks

behar1 · Jul 1, 2002, 08:08 PM

Download The Registry Detective from the link above,once installed it
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3001-2094-5943284.html
do a search for the word TESTING and delete the two keys found and you can go back to your normal desktop.
Of course I wouldn't try the sp1 Beta or any other experiments if I didn't have a Ghost Image file which brings everything back to as it was in about 5 min.
Regards, Jerry

Ok Folks lets go through this again
Repeat all the steps above, for those of you who doesn't really want to delete them
Highlight the keys found by the reg detective click on file and export them to somewhere
in your hard drive and name them as sp_1 and sp_2 and than delete them
this way if a complication arises you can always import them with regedit by clicking file and export it
Renaming it won't do.
Regards,
Jerry

parkan · Jul 2, 2002, 12:46 AM

I always have build number display enabled anyway. Nothing wrong with a beta warning on your desktop

DallasStar · Jul 2, 2002, 04:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by behar1
Download The Registry Detective from the link above,once installed it
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3001-2094-5943284.html
do a search for the word TESTING and delete the two keys found and you can go back to your normal desktop.
Of course I wouldn't try the sp1 Beta or any other experiments if I didn't have a Ghost Image file which brings everything back to as it was in about 5 min.
Regards, Jerry

hey, that works. and none of the effects are gone either

tool · Jul 2, 2002, 08:03 AM

shweet!

params · Jul 2, 2002, 09:34 AM

Damn - beat me to it behar1

Alan Allen · Jul 2, 2002, 10:16 AM

Works GREAT

empyrium · Jul 2, 2002, 12:13 PM

Can you give me the location of the 2 keys i must delete...

daMANwithANSWERZ · Jul 2, 2002, 01:03 PM

Hi,

The Keys are:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertif icates\CA\Certificates\FEE449EE0E3965A5246F000E87F DE2A065FD89D4

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertif icates\ROOT\Certificates\2BD63D28D7BCD0E251195AEB5 19243C13142EBC3

and the KeyName is Blob. I just renamed Blob to Blob_.

Cheerz

empyrium · Jul 2, 2002, 02:48 PM

It works! Muchas Thanks...

!!!!

kodiak · Jul 2, 2002, 04:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by daMANwithANSWERZ
Hi,

The Keys are:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertif icates\CA\Certificates\FEE449EE0E3965A5246F000E87F DE2A065FD89D4

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertif icates\ROOT\Certificates\2BD63D28D7BCD0E251195AEB5 19243C13142EBC3

and the KeyName is Blob. I just renamed Blob to Blob_.

Cheerz

Found it. This is the way to remove the test purposes at the bottom

HSChronic · Jul 2, 2002, 05:22 PM

Thanks for the tip. Glad i can get rid of that

shuki · Jul 2, 2002, 06:05 PM

renamed both keys to "blob_" and rebooted..... still there for me that way

don't really wanna try deleting them... hmph.

DRG2003 · Jul 2, 2002, 06:16 PM

same here... I renamed them both to blob_ and restarted. Still there. So I went back and deleted both of the keys and restarted again. Still no luck. Any ideas?

behar1 · Jul 2, 2002, 06:38 PM

Re: how to remove "for testing purposes only" from your desktop (beta sp1 related)
Download The Registry Detective from the link above,once installed it
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3001-2094-5943284.html
do a search for the word TESTING and delete the two keys found and you can go back to your normal desktop.
Of course I wouldn't try the sp1 Beta or any other experiments if I didn't have a Ghost Image file which brings everything back to as it was in about 5 min.
Regards, Jerry

Ok Folks lets go through this again
Repeat all the steps above, for those of you who doesn't really want to delete them
Highlight the keys found by the reg detective click on file and export them to somewhere
in your hard drive and name them as sp_1 and sp_2 and than delete them
this way if a complication arises you can always import them with regedit by clicking file and export it
Renaming it won't do.
Regards,
Jerry

Last edited by behar1 on 07-02-2002 at 11:35 AM

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WalleO · Jul 2, 2002, 06:40 PM

Yea, same thing here, I renamed the file and rebooted,= No Luck. I deleted the entire Key = No Luck. what im I doing wrong. Do I have to delete the whole folder?

behar1 · Jul 2, 2002, 06:54 PM

The reg detective will find two keys,highlight each one and press Ctrl and R this will take you to the registry automatically, and yes you will have to delete the folder itself on the right side of the vertical divider which has File ,Edit,Wiew,Favorites ,Help( on top menu)
Once you highlight the keys found by reg detectiveand press Ctrl and R the folder will be the only open folder on the registry tree (the right side of the divider) look for an open
folder right click on it and first export if desired, and after that right click and delete
Regards,
Jerry

DRG2003 · Jul 2, 2002, 07:06 PM

Cool- it worked! I had deleted the two keys, but had read nothing about deleting the folders they were in. Once I did this and restarted the build number's gone from the desktop. Thanks for your help!

WalleO · Jul 2, 2002, 07:09 PM

thanks, it works now. by the way, whats the story with the IDW logging tool thats now in the startup folder, should we delete it? does it serve any function at the startup?

shuki · Jul 2, 2002, 07:11 PM

jerry, I have no problems finding the keys. I found them both manually. I see no need to d/l and run any regdetective to find the keys for me. It makes no sense that it can only be disabled by d/ling and using the regdetective to find those keys and then change them. A changed or renamed reg key is a changed or renamed reg key. whether with a "find it" program or doing it manually....

DRG2003 · Jul 2, 2002, 07:17 PM

You can just delete it. From what I've read it's only in the leaked Microsoft internal builds. It's mean to report back to Microsoft internally to say that the beta installed correctly. If the beta install wasn't installed correctly then a followup e-mail is sent out, also internally. From what I gather none of this is sent over the internet anyways. It's made to make sure that their own testers at Microsoft aren't having any problems or something like that.

behar1 · Jul 2, 2002, 07:43 PM

Shuki, you are absolutely right there is no need to download the reg det and the keys can
be found and deleted without it, that is of course if you have the extra time to do it
I have an 80 Gig hard drive and still against downloading every other download that tere is
but the reg det takes less than 1 MB space and it is free and it makes your life a lot easier
I really dont know who wrote it and put it on the net for free but my hat goes out to him
try to do the search with reg edit itself time it and search again with reg det and see the difference.
as I Posted before renaming it won't do have to delete it
Regards,
Jerry

shuki · Jul 2, 2002, 07:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by behar1
as I Posted before renaming it won't do have to delete it
Regards,
Jerry

that's the nail on the head. just exported to a temp location and deleted the folders and now all gone

Thanks Jerry! great find!

RadeonMAXX · Jul 3, 2002, 12:03 AM

Or use this simple file...
http://wet.zsoft.co.uk/sp1_remove_bu...om_desktop.zip

removes it in less than a second! Reboot & be happy.

~~Crash Override~~ · Jul 3, 2002, 05:32 AM

at least someone did some reg digging to find it

thanks

i only dig through the reg for my driver tweaks...

behar1 · Jul 3, 2002, 04:35 PM

Or use this simple file...
http://wet.zsoft.co.uk/sp1_remove_bu...om_desktop.zip

removes it in less than a second! Reboot & be happy

Very nice batch file but I always am happier when I solve my own problems,even if it takes
some reg digging

You can not build unless you dig first, which luckily enough for them the digging for our pals in U.K was done here in this forum
Yesterday at one point there were more than four different XP sites pointing everybody
to DriverHeaven forum and this thread for the specific "testing Purposes" only issue
and only after the reg keys were posted in this thread time and again, our pals in U.K came up with the batch file, jolly interesting!!
I believe the purpose of discussion forum is to learn something for everybody
which it happened perfectly, here yesterday .
A batch file makes your life easy but it doesn't really teach you anything
After all who is going to give us a batch file for everything we need
the answer is Mr Gates! and the rest is history.

When the going gets easy the tough don't go !
Regards, Jerry

Vampirefo · Jul 3, 2002, 05:01 PM

I like the batch file ideal, works great.

StevenH · Jul 3, 2002, 07:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by behar1
Download The Registry Detective from the link above,once installed it
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3001-2094-5943284.html
do a search for the word TESTING and delete the two keys found and you can go back to your normal desktop.
Of course I wouldn't try the sp1 Beta or any other experiments if I didn't have a Ghost Image file which brings everything back to as it was in about 5 min.
Regards, Jerry

Ok Folks lets go through this again
Repeat all the steps above, for those of you who doesn't really want to delete them
Highlight the keys found by the reg detective click on file and export them to somewhere
in your hard drive and name them as sp_1 and sp_2 and than delete them
this way if a complication arises you can always import them with regedit by clicking file and export it
Renaming it won't do.
Regards,
Jerry

you shouldn't forget to REBOOT!

RadeonMAXX · Jul 3, 2002, 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by behar1
Or use this simple file...
http://wet.zsoft.co.uk/sp1_remove_bu...om_desktop.zip

removes it in less than a second! Reboot & be happy

Very nice batch file but I always am happier when I solve my own problems,even if it takes
some reg digging

You can not build unless you dig first, which luckily enough for them the digging for our pals in U.K was done here in this forum
Yesterday at one point there were more than four different XP sites pointing everybody
to DriverHeaven forum and this thread for the specific "testing Purposes" only issue
and only after the reg keys were posted in this thread time and again, our pals in U.K came up with the batch file, jolly interesting!!
I believe the purpose of discussion forum is to learn something for everybody
which it happened perfectly, here yesterday .
A batch file makes your life easy but it doesn't really teach you anything
After all who is going to give us a batch file for everything we need
the answer is Mr Gates! and the rest is history.

When the going gets easy the tough don't go !
Regards, Jerry

Yeah I agree with that. I'm a reg junkie my self. I found that link in the elite-irc, in one of the channels. Cool they got there info here & made the batch file.

Jul 1, 2002, 08:08 PM	#3
behar1 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: U.S.A Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	Re: how to remove "for testing purposes only" from your desktop (beta sp1 related) Download The Registry Detective from the link above,once installed it http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3001-2094-5943284.html do a search for the word TESTING and delete the two keys found and you can go back to your normal desktop. Of course I wouldn't try the sp1 Beta or any other experiments if I didn't have a Ghost Image file which brings everything back to as it was in about 5 min. Regards, Jerry Ok Folks lets go through this again Repeat all the steps above, for those of you who doesn't really want to delete them Highlight the keys found by the reg detective click on file and export them to somewhere in your hard drive and name them as sp_1 and sp_2 and than delete them this way if a complication arises you can always import them with regedit by clicking file and export it Renaming it won't do. Regards, Jerry

Jul 2, 2002, 10:16 AM	#8
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Jul 2, 2002, 05:22 PM	#13
HSChronic DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Thanks for the tip Thanks for the tip. Glad i can get rid of that

Jul 2, 2002, 07:06 PM	#19
DRG2003 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	It worked! Cool- it worked! I had deleted the two keys, but had read nothing about deleting the folders they were in. Once I did this and restarted the build number's gone from the desktop. Thanks for your help!

Jul 2, 2002, 07:43 PM	#23
behar1 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: U.S.A Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	Reg Det Shuki, you are absolutely right there is no need to download the reg det and the keys can be found and deleted without it, that is of course if you have the extra time to do it I have an 80 Gig hard drive and still against downloading every other download that tere is but the reg det takes less than 1 MB space and it is free and it makes your life a lot easier I really dont know who wrote it and put it on the net for free but my hat goes out to him try to do the search with reg edit itself time it and search again with reg det and see the difference. as I Posted before renaming it won't do have to delete it Regards, Jerry

Jul 1, 2002, 10:33 AM	#2
~~David~~ Banned Join Date: May 2002 Location: Atlanta Posts: 959 Rep Power: 0	stickyfied! thanks

Jul 2, 2002, 12:46 AM	#4
parkan DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	I always have build number display enabled anyway. Nothing wrong with a beta warning on your desktop

Jul 2, 2002, 08:03 AM	#6
tool DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	shweet!

Jul 2, 2002, 09:34 AM	#7
params DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 29 Rep Power: 0	Damn - beat me to it behar1

Jul 2, 2002, 12:13 PM	#9
empyrium DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Can you give me the location of the 2 keys i must delete...

Jul 2, 2002, 01:03 PM	#10
daMANwithANSWERZ DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Hi, The Keys are: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertif icates\CA\Certificates\FEE449EE0E3965A5246F000E87F DE2A065FD89D4 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertif icates\ROOT\Certificates\2BD63D28D7BCD0E251195AEB5 19243C13142EBC3 and the KeyName is Blob. I just renamed Blob to Blob_. Cheerz

Jul 2, 2002, 02:48 PM	#11
empyrium DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	It works! Muchas Thanks... !!!!

Jul 2, 2002, 06:05 PM	Thread Starter #14
shuki DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: in the hidden place Posts: 1,975 Rep Power: 0	renamed both keys to "blob_" and rebooted..... still there for me that way don't really wanna try deleting them... hmph.

Jul 2, 2002, 06:16 PM	#15
DRG2003 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	same here... I renamed them both to blob_ and restarted. Still there. So I went back and deleted both of the keys and restarted again. Still no luck. Any ideas?

Jul 2, 2002, 06:38 PM	#16
behar1 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: U.S.A Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	Re: how to remove "for testing purposes only" from your desktop (beta sp1 related) Download The Registry Detective from the link above,once installed it http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3001-2094-5943284.html do a search for the word TESTING and delete the two keys found and you can go back to your normal desktop. Of course I wouldn't try the sp1 Beta or any other experiments if I didn't have a Ghost Image file which brings everything back to as it was in about 5 min. Regards, Jerry Ok Folks lets go through this again Repeat all the steps above, for those of you who doesn't really want to delete them Highlight the keys found by the reg detective click on file and export them to somewhere in your hard drive and name them as sp_1 and sp_2 and than delete them this way if a complication arises you can always import them with regedit by clicking file and export it Renaming it won't do. Regards, Jerry Last edited by behar1 on 07-02-2002 at 11:35 AM Report this post to a moderator

Jul 2, 2002, 06:40 PM	#17
WalleO DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	Yea, same thing here, I renamed the file and rebooted,= No Luck. I deleted the entire Key = No Luck. what im I doing wrong. Do I have to delete the whole folder?

Jul 2, 2002, 06:54 PM	#18
behar1 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: U.S.A Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	The reg detective will find two keys,highlight each one and press Ctrl and R this will take you to the registry automatically, and yes you will have to delete the folder itself on the right side of the vertical divider which has File ,Edit,Wiew,Favorites ,Help( on top menu) Once you highlight the keys found by reg detectiveand press Ctrl and R the folder will be the only open folder on the registry tree (the right side of the divider) look for an open folder right click on it and first export if desired, and after that right click and delete Regards, Jerry

Jul 2, 2002, 07:09 PM	#20
WalleO DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	thanks, it works now. by the way, whats the story with the IDW logging tool thats now in the startup folder, should we delete it? does it serve any function at the startup?

Jul 2, 2002, 07:11 PM	Thread Starter #21
shuki DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: in the hidden place Posts: 1,975 Rep Power: 0	jerry, I have no problems finding the keys. I found them both manually. I see no need to d/l and run any regdetective to find the keys for me. It makes no sense that it can only be disabled by d/ling and using the regdetective to find those keys and then change them. A changed or renamed reg key is a changed or renamed reg key. whether with a "find it" program or doing it manually....

Jul 2, 2002, 07:17 PM	#22
DRG2003 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	You can just delete it. From what I've read it's only in the leaked Microsoft internal builds. It's mean to report back to Microsoft internally to say that the beta installed correctly. If the beta install wasn't installed correctly then a followup e-mail is sent out, also internally. From what I gather none of this is sent over the internet anyways. It's made to make sure that their own testers at Microsoft aren't having any problems or something like that.

Jul 3, 2002, 12:03 AM	#25
RadeonMAXX Made Man Join Date: May 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon USA! Posts: 275 Rep Power: 0	Or use this simple file... http://wet.zsoft.co.uk/sp1_remove_bu...om_desktop.zip removes it in less than a second! Reboot & be happy. __________________ WinXP Home Edition/ Service Pack 1 beta(build 1050) Athlon XP@1.4ghz Original Radeon 8500 - ATI CATALYST 2.1 IWiLL KK266 motherboard DirectX 9 beta 2 Download KaZaA now!! http://www.kazaa.com/en/index.php R300 "Crush the Force!" -Dave Orton, Ati President

Jul 3, 2002, 05:32 AM	#26
~~Crash Override~~ Banned Join Date: May 2002 Location: Olympia, WA Posts: 2,448 Rep Power: 0	at least someone did some reg digging to find it thanks i only dig through the reg for my driver tweaks...

Jul 3, 2002, 04:35 PM	#27
behar1 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: U.S.A Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	Re: Simple File Or use this simple file... http://wet.zsoft.co.uk/sp1_remove_bu...om_desktop.zip removes it in less than a second! Reboot & be happy Very nice batch file but I always am happier when I solve my own problems,even if it takes some reg digging You can not build unless you dig first, which luckily enough for them the digging for our pals in U.K was done here in this forum Yesterday at one point there were more than four different XP sites pointing everybody to DriverHeaven forum and this thread for the specific "testing Purposes" only issue and only after the reg keys were posted in this thread time and again, our pals in U.K came up with the batch file, jolly interesting!! I believe the purpose of discussion forum is to learn something for everybody which it happened perfectly, here yesterday . A batch file makes your life easy but it doesn't really teach you anything After all who is going to give us a batch file for everything we need the answer is Mr Gates! and the rest is history. When the going gets easy the tough don't go ! Regards, Jerry

Jul 3, 2002, 05:01 PM	#28
Vampirefo DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 124 Rep Power: 0	I like the batch file ideal, works great.