I have a question about Customize My Computer:

Namely, why doesn't it work in 2K? The registry modification puts a second "Open" option in the right click menu, but the default one remains, and remains default. This is very annoying.

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On Wednesday, October 2, 2002 at 12:11 pm, Nicholas Hall wrote:
>I have a question about Customize
>My Computer:

>
>Namely, why doesn't it work in 2K? The registry
>modification puts a second "Open"
>option in the right click menu, but the default
>one remains, and remains default.
>This is very annoying.
>: : Yup! I'm not sure if it applies back to W2K, but my experience with XP has been you must also modify the default value in the "shell" key: this seems to be used (or at least, usable) to direct Windows to the default action. Thus, you might call your new key "Explorer" instead of "Open", and set the default value to "Explorer".

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>Yup!
>
>I'm not sure if it applies back to W2K, but my experience with XP has been you must
>also modify the default value in the "shell" key: this seems to be used (or at least,
>usable) to direct Windows to the default action.
>
>Thus, you might call your new key "Explorer" instead of "Open", and set the default
>value to "Explorer".
> He is right, however you can also just point the default in the "shell" key to Open (the key that was made in "shell")

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On Friday, December 6, 2002 at 3:07 pm, David wrote:
>Yup
>I'm not sure if it applies back to W2K, but my experience with XP has been you must
>also modify the default value in the "shell" key: this seems to be used (or at least,
>usable) to direct Windows to the default action
>Thus, you might call your new key "Explorer" instead of "Open", and set the default value to "Explorer".

Thanks for that, it solved my problem. Note that you can combine this with the tip about making Explorer open in the right folder (Using Windows) by making the value in the "command" registry value have the suggested switches. That is the value associated with the default key in \HCR\CLSID\{20D04...}\SHELL\EXPLORER\COMMAND should be set to %SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe /n, /e, c:\ if you want Explorer to open in C:\ (change the last parameter if you want it open other than in C:\) It stops it opening that annoying "My Documents" folder.

Why, by-the-way do Microsoft insist on such condescending names - like "My Network Places" and so on? How old do they think the average computer user is? - six???

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I still cant this this to work. Maybe im doing it wrong???


On Monday, December 30, 2002 at 3:19 am, Chris wrote:
>On Friday, December 6, 2002 at 3:07 pm, David wrote:
>Yup
>
>I'm not sure if it applies back to W2K, but my experience with XP has been you must
>also modify the default value in the "shell" key: this seems to be used (or at least,
>usable) to direct Windows to the default action
>
>Thus, you might call your new key "Explorer" instead of "Open", and set the default
>value to "Explorer".

>
>Thanks for that, it solved my problem. Note that you can combine this with the tip
>about making Explorer open in the right folder (Using Windows) by making the value
>in the "command" registry value have the suggested switches. That is the value associated
>with the default key in
>
>\HCR\CLSID\{20D04...}\SHELL\EXPLORER\COMMAND
>
>should be set to
>
>%SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe /n, /e, c:\
>
>if you want Explorer to open in C:\ (change the last parameter if you want it open
>other than in C:\) It stops it opening that annoying "My Documents" folder.

>
>
>Why, by-the-way do Microsoft insist on such condescending names - like "My Network
>Places" and so on? How old do they think the average computer user is? - six???
>
>

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Try this tip, which I got from http://www.itworld.com/nl/win_admin_tips/03152002/

Right-click the Windows Explorer shortcut that you use to run the program and choose 
Properties. When the Windows Explorer Properties dialog box opens, click the Shortcut 
tab. Click in the Target entry box, and then press End. Add to the end of the existing 
line /e, c:\. The complete line in the Target entry box should now be 

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e, c:\ 

The /e switch tells Windows Explorer to open in the two pane explorer mode and the 
c:\ tells it to open in folder C:\.







On Saturday, September 27, 2003 at 2:12 pm, sean wrote:
>I still cant this this to work.  Maybe im doing it wrong???

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Well as far as windows explorer in the start menu... that works., but i was looking to change it so that when i double click on my computer, that it would open in explorer.


On Saturday, September 27, 2003 at 2:41 pm, Mark Riordan wrote:

>Try this tip, which I got from http://www.itworld.com/nl/win_admin_tips/03152002/
>
>Right-click the Windows Explorer shortcut that you use to run the program and choose 
>Properties. When the Windows Explorer Properties dialog box opens, click the Shortcut 
>tab. Click in the Target entry box, and then press End. Add to the end of the existing 
>line /e, c:\. The complete line in the Target entry box should now be 
>
>%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e, c:\ 
>
>The /e switch tells Windows Explorer to open in the two pane explorer mode and the 
>c:\ tells it to open in folder C:\.
>
>
>

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Indeed. However it still did not work under my Win2000 SP4.

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.

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.

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.

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? :-)


On Friday, December 6, 2002 at 3:07 pm, David wrote:
>Yup!
>
>I'm not sure if it applies back to W2K, but my experience with XP has been you must
>also modify the default value in the "shell" key: this seems to be used (or at least,
>usable) to direct Windows to the default action.
>
>Thus, you might call your new key "Explorer" instead of "Open", and set the default
>value to "Explorer".
>
>He is right, however you can also just point the default in the "shell" key to Open
>(the key that was made in "shell")

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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. 

>

>
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. 

>

>
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.

>

>
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. 

>

>
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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I forgot about this change I also had to make so I would get the two paned window with the folders on the left. [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell] @="Explorer"


On Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 12:03 pm, Steve Brune wrote:
>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
>
>
>

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In response to:

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? :-)

You want; %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n, /e, /select, c:\

-Cheers

Erik

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