Scripting taskbar settings changes, etc. mid-session

Hi all,

I'm looking for a scripting solution to update certain windows settings - including taskbar and start menu settings (as in things like button combining, rather than the content of the menu) during a logon session. Is this possible?

My approach so far has been to kill explorer.exe and apply a reg key with the values in:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]"TaskbarGlomLevel"=dword:00000002

And then restart explorer after applying the reg file. This doesn't seem to work. though. Can anyone think of a way to do this? There are various other windows settings I might want to include. I'm not fussed whether this is a job for powershell, VBS, or something else. Or am I barking up the wrong tree with scripting, and ought I to use Group Policy to apply the settings instead?

Thanks!

Aled