Customize windows 7 Desktop

[capriguy84]

Hello,

 

I am looking to change the desktop theme and taskbar properties during the win 7 deployment.

 

Does anybody know how to change the theme to "classic" and set taskbar to "Use small icons" & "Combine when taskbar is full".

 

 

Thanks for your help.

[Lucid]

We customize our deployments with a combination of settings in the "unattend.xml" file and a VBScript that runs at the tail end of our deployment process (copies files, sets registry key settings, that sort of stuff). As an illustration, our VBScript cracks open the default user registry hive and populates this registry key to show small icons on the taskbar:

 

objWshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_USERS\CustomizeDefaultUserProfile\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\TaskbarSmallIcons", "1","REG_DWORD"

 

As for themes, we create a custom theme and copy that over as "oem.theme", but if you can't get Classic via the "unattend.xml" file, I think you can look at adjusting a registry key for this as well...