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re: Question about 'Customize Common Dialogs'
Thursday, November 6, 2003 at 10:48 am
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Posted by jagged ben (3536 messages posted)


You can do all this with TweakUI, too.





On Thursday, November 6, 2003 at 9:36 am, Jonathan T. Sage wrote:
>I have a question about Customize 
>Common Dialogs:

> >The windows XP method for open, save and save-as that seems to truly work. > >My specific problem - i am administering a lab with 4 machines that use a single >file server as the primary place to store files, naturally, i want that place to >appear at the top of the places bar. > >How i did it: > >The key i played with is: > >HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg32\PlacesBar\ > >I needed to create both the "comdlg32" and "PlacesBar" keys. > >inside the "PlacesBar" key, i created 5 values, for my first since it was a custom >place, i created a STRING value, named "Place0" (Note: the index starts at 0, not >1), and the value of "S:\" (my file server mount). > >For my other 4 places, i created DWORDS named "Place1" "Place2" "Place3" and "Place4". > The values for these, i got from the table at : > >http://www.puppypc.com/windows/rt/comdlg_placebar.htm > >Works great, 100% reproducible on WinXP SP1 > >~jon > >




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Question about 'Customize Common Dialogs' (Jonathan T. Sage: Thursday, November 6, 2003 at 9:36 am)

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*re: Question about 'Customize Common Dialogs' (John Bonifas: Sunday, August 28, 2005 at 10:57 am)

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-Question about 'Customize Common Dialogs' (Jonathan T. Sage: Thu, Nov 6, 2003, 9:36 am)
-re: Question about 'Customize Common Dialogs' (jagged ben: Thu, Nov 6, 2003, 10:48 am)
-re: Question about 'Customize Common Dialogs' (John Bonifas: Sun, Aug 28, 2005, 10:57 am)
*re: Question about 'Customize Common Dialogs' (666: Thu, Feb 16, 2006, 1:00 pm)
*re: Question about 'Customize Common Dialogs' (Rogelio: Thu, Feb 16, 2006, 12:41 pm)
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