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re: Question about 'Customize My Computer'
Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 12:03 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve Brune
(2 messages posted)
I did this on my windows 2000 box
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Explorer\command]
@="Explorer.exe /e,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"
and it opened My Computer with Explorer
On Tuesday, December 2, 2003 at 1:00 pm, Maarten Afman wrote:
>Indeed. However it still did not work under my Win2000 SP4.
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>The default key under the "Open" key we created is of type REG_SZ. As I noticed
>with the other default values here, they are all of type REG_EXPAND_SZ.
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> How to fix?
>Export some other key as a reg file and you see that that this REG_EXPAND_SZ seems
>to mean that they are stored as UNICODE?? HEX??? I don't know, just export the "Manage"
>key to a .REG file, open it with notepad, replace "Manage" with "Open" (what we
had
>created) and load the reg file again.
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> Now the type of the default value under command is no longer REG_SZ but REG_EXPAND_SZ.
>It has the %windir\sys32\mmc.... of the manage command, just replace that with the
>explorer.exe command of your liking and it worked on my box.
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> Good explorer command? explorer.exe /n, /e, ....
> Now I don't want explorer to expand my C:\ and I also don't want to have it expand
>the mydocs. I want the behaviour you get when you press the windows button+E. Any
>ideas? :-)
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