Does anybody know the registry setting which governs check/uncheck of the
"Hide keyboard navigation indicators until I use the Alt key" display

In W2000, in display properties under the "effects" tab there is a checkbox
for the property "Hide keyboard ....".

I had updated the registry entry
"HKCU(/LM)\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Poli cies\Explorer\NoCha
ngeKeyboardNavigationIndicators" to 1
but this only disables the checkbox (to the user), but actually doesn't
change the property itself.
Reading around on this I do appear to be doing the correct thing but the
outcome is not what I want..I want the
box to be unticked !!

any help appreciated
Ewan

In microsoft.public.win2000.registry Ewan Carr wrote:

I think you want the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\
UserPreferencesMask=
(a REG_BINARY value)

Not documented AFAIK, but here (W2K) I can offer two values
BE 08 00 80 (Hide disabled)
and
9E 08 00 80 (Hide enabled)
Which may help. I doubt you will see a change without a logoff/logon
or some method to force explorer shell to re-read the value.

I find Regmon.exe ( http://www.sysinternals.com (free))
to be useful in tracking changes.