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bob32 · 08-02-2004, 11:50 PM

I didn't think there was a way to customize the first picture easily but I was wrong. And it turns out customizing it is somewhat easy (involves registry editting).

In the registry to go HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg32\placesbar The policies folder should be there but the next two will have to be created. Inside of that, you make a few string values named "Place0", "Place1", "Place2", "Place3", "Place4". I believe you can only have up to 5 entries, anymore won't do anything. Then rightclick the entry and modify it. Then just type the path to the folder you want it to point to (ex. c:\program files).

08-02-2004, 11:50 PM	#6 (permalink)
bob32 Crazy	I didn't think there was a way to customize the first picture easily but I was wrong. And it turns out customizing it is somewhat easy (involves registry editting). In the registry to go HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg32\placesbar The policies folder should be there but the next two will have to be created. Inside of that, you make a few string values named "Place0", "Place1", "Place2", "Place3", "Place4". I believe you can only have up to 5 entries, anymore won't do anything. Then rightclick the entry and modify it. Then just type the path to the folder you want it to point to (ex. c:\program files).