Wasn't sure whether to post this question but decided what the hell.. I was just wondering if there are any very bored C++ programmers out there that can give me a hand? Well, it would be a bit more than just a hand which is why I wasn't sure whether to post or not.. Anyway..
I've just started C++ at college (3 lessons so far!!) which is why I would like to try using that but if someone reads that and thinks of a programming language that would be alot easier then I'm open to suggestions..
The thing is, everytime I log onto a computer at college it wipes our personal settings.. There's an attached image of what the desktop looks like.. Now this is probably me being very fussy but I just can't live with these settings.. I find myself wasting the 1st 5 or 10 minutes of the lesson setting it back to decent settings.. No font smoothing, grey as hell.. yuck! It just puts me off working..
So I was wondering if I could write a program to load a .theme file and change settings such as cleartype.. Even if I found out how to change the setting in the registry for cleartype (I know where it is) how could I refresh the settings in windows? What I mean is, changing the value in the registry doesn't do anything unless you log off or restart.. But then the settings get wiped..
And the way I will load these settings is using the start menu.. The only way you can load anything on startup is by putting a program in the all users startup folder..
So if anyone has any ideas or suggestions please post them.. Oh and I've aksed the admins nicely and said that I can't stand cleartype off etc and they basically said live with it.. But I think if I can do this it will make me work better and help me learn C++ better..
Please no one post anything about do it yourself or you shouldnt mess with settings I just thought I might aswell ask and if no one wants to help out then thats fair enough..
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Wasn't sure whether to post this question but decided what the hell.. I was just wondering if there are any very bored C++ programmers out there that can give me a hand? Well, it would be a bit more than just a hand which is why I wasn't sure whether to post or not.. Anyway..
I've just started C++ at college (3 lessons so far!!) which is why I would like to try using that but if someone reads that and thinks of a programming language that would be alot easier then I'm open to suggestions..
The thing is, everytime I log onto a computer at college it wipes our personal settings.. There's an attached image of what the desktop looks like.. Now this is probably me being very fussy but I just can't live with these settings.. I find myself wasting the 1st 5 or 10 minutes of the lesson setting it back to decent settings.. No font smoothing, grey as hell.. yuck! It just puts me off working..
So I was wondering if I could write a program to load a .theme file and change settings such as cleartype.. Even if I found out how to change the setting in the registry for cleartype (I know where it is) how could I refresh the settings in windows? What I mean is, changing the value in the registry doesn't do anything unless you log off or restart.. But then the settings get wiped..
And the way I will load these settings is using the start menu.. The only way you can load anything on startup is by putting a program in the all users startup folder..
So if anyone has any ideas or suggestions please post them.. Oh and I've aksed the admins nicely and said that I can't stand cleartype off etc and they basically said live with it.. But I think if I can do this it will make me work better and help me learn C++ better..
Please no one post anything about do it yourself or you shouldnt mess with settings I just thought I might aswell ask and if no one wants to help out then thats fair enough..
Thanks
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