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Old 08-02-2004, 09:48 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Customizing "Shortcut" buttons in Windows?

In some programs, such as Photoshop, when you open a folder, the file browsing window that comes up has 5 shortcut buttons.



I'm curious to know if there is a way to change these buttons to point to other folders. There are a few folders I often have to go to, and it would make things go a lot quicker if I didn't have to navigate through 3 or 4 differant folders to get to my final destination.
I realize any folders you access will show up under the Recent Documents button, but that list gets long very quickly. Not to mention it takes a few seconds for it to load when it gets long.

Or what about these, that appear in 'My Computer?'


Anybody happen to have any ideas of how to alter these? Or perhaps theres a program that does it for you, if it requires editing of the OS coding.

Thanks!
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Old 08-02-2004, 10:05 PM   #2 (permalink)
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The first one is not customizeable as far as I know. Its the Microsoft Common Dialogue Control that is used to display that window, and I doubt that you can edit those shortcuts. Check the documentation os MSDN for the Common Dialogue Control and see what you can find. If its possible, there's a 98% chance that its documented in MSDN, and there is a 20% chance that you will find it
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Old 08-02-2004, 11:02 PM   #3 (permalink)
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afaik, you *can* do the first one with TweakUI (a Microsoft Power Toy).
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Old 08-02-2004, 11:07 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I don't know of a way to edit the first picture. But the second one can be customized by using TweakUI. TweakUI can be found here - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

In TweakUI select common dialogs, then places bar.

The icons for the other places can also be customized, it's in some dll file, probably shell32.dll
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Old 08-02-2004, 11:18 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Sounds like TweakUI is my solution.

Thanks a ton
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Old 08-02-2004, 11:50 PM   #6 (permalink)
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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).
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Old 08-03-2004, 12:48 AM   #7 (permalink)
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heh great bob32 did not know that.
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