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*msdn links that might be related: Toolbar Controls Overview File Manager Extensions at MSDN *links that verify explorer button extensions ARE possible: bxNewFolder (look @ screenshot) (or its sister software "Folder Box Pro" .. watch demo and skip to frame 33/42) The Deubox OmniTome | | | | | | | | | | V V V V New Newer Newest Update (8/04/05): Progress: - SelectAll Extension (Folder Background Menu)....DONE! - BrowserBack Extension (Folder Background Menu)....DONE! - FileExt. Toggle Extension (Folder Background Menu)....SEE BELOW - HiddenFile Toggle Extension (Folder Background Menu)....SEE BELOW FileExt & HiddenFiles: - released with a (hopefully) temporary "refresh" method (see first post in this thread) - Looking into the possibility of writing directly to explorer's cached File Ext setting if possible. Otherwise, I still need a way to refresh explorer (preferably globably but if I can refresh one window using a message, I should be able to enumerate the rest...i.e. send the message to each window in turn). I've noticed that hitting F5 ("Refresh" hotkey) and/or using View | refresh does absolutely nothing BUT when I use the "Refresh" item on the Folder-Background context menu that DOES work... for that window (but NOT on the other 5 copies of Windows Explorer that I have open).

here's what I know on that subject: from msdn (scroll down to the last table and look just below the table at the first entry under "notes"). From what I understand from the rest of the article (and a few others from msdn), I would need to register a dll under HKCR\CLSID and point an entry in the HKCR\Directory\Background key to the HKCR\CLSID\{SID for dll} to be able to do this. If I'm wrong, and its actually easier... well, I'd rather be wrong and it be easier but who knows. I've been planning on trying out these articles and seeing if I can't figure it out: The Complete id***'s Guide to Writing Shell Extensions but I haven't really had much time lately except a few hours late each night and so far I've been pretty burned out by then.

just out of curiousity was (#1) for a one-time problem or something you wanted to dynamically setup on a given machine whenever you use your ua cd? also a very very cheap way (if it even works) to make the RunOnceEx dialog wider that you might try is making a longer text string (in the case that this does actually work, you may even be able to get away with padding the end of a string with lots of spaces). But as far as a reg-tweak for its dimensions; I have no idea if something like that would even exist or if the RunOnce GUI mioght adjust its dimensions dynamically at runtime to fit the text strings (kinda how I thought of the above). i.e. (RunOnceEx.cmd): REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "Preparing Installation... {lots of spaces OR a long phrase or something}" /f

thanks. all i remember about zoom player was it does play both video and audio, its zoom feature was kind of glitchy (at least on the version I mentioned), and for some reason or another its interface/appearance/layout turned me off to it. but like they say the best way to know if you'll like something is to try it yourself

well after thinking about it a little more i think i'mgetting an idea of how it could be done, if a little bit of a roundabout method: write a program/script that would toggle the value like so: 1- read current registry value 2- possibly use a case statement (or some if's) to determine and write new value to registry 3- (haven't figure this part out yet but...) copy current directory path from explorer 4- close the "explorer.exe" process 5- restart process 6- launch an explorer window with the path as an argument i know its cheap as hell but it *should* do the job (provided I get time to write it)

I agree w/ you there, but i just threw a simple codec package onto my uA cd and it works fine (the silent install switch is "/S" incase you might be interested) ...currently using winamp and once in a while i switch off to mpc for movies I was looking for awhile before that tho and heres a few you might want to avoid: 1) Cliprex Lite 2.6: - watch out: has included "crap-ware" called "TopText" that it will install by default if you don't uncheck the box during installation. 2) FastStone Player 3.1: - poor system for queueing up tracks or clips, as it can only play files within a folder you browse to - does NOT offer: playlist support, an equalizer, visualizations, or the ability to play/rip CDs. 3) Nostra DivX Player 2.1: - contains ad-ware BUT.. - I like the way you can EASILY resize windows without any noticable video distortion - slider bar for video positioning it isn't very visible... you can find in the bottom of the black "display" square in the main window) - designed for compactness and is able to be run even on very old PCs 4) Zoom Player v4.03: - somewhat unstable when switching between zoom modes, although you can choose "Reset Window Position" by right-clicking its taskbar button hope that helps (tried to list versions I had tested as I don't now if these problems have been fixed... but I doubt it)

1- not sure but if this is something you set via Administrative Tools > Computer Management (or "%windir%\system32\compmgmt.msc") > Disk Management... then you might somehow try to see if you can find a way to silently call the msc with some kind of argument. 2- as far as the quicklaunch tweak... that's been asked/answered ALOT in several different threads. Take a look at Cartoonite's post here as he has several useful links for this. 3- not really sure what you mean (what enclosed image?)

media player classic is a good choice; so is winamp One thing I don't like about MPC though is the way it handles its playlists... on the other hand WinAmp's playlist reminds me somewhat of WMP's... also i think winamp uses codecs prolly was there anything else you wanted it to do besides being freeware and avoiding codecs {and playing video}?

@ Gouki just suggesting another {possible} way (.reg's and batch files work fine on uA) btw this: should also work fine from a batch file during uA so long as it doesn't prompt the user or popup w/ a message box like "OK"

This won't really get rid of them but it might work: you could try "re-assigning" them to an already existing folder that's out of the way (kind of assuming you just don't want them in My Documents)... REGEDIT4 ;================================ ; Change location of Special Folders: ;================================ ; NOTE EACH FOLDER HAS **2** VALUES [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\Shell Folders] ;;"My Music"={insert text string of path} [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\User Shell Folders] ;;"My Music"={export hex string of path} [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\Shell Folders] ;;"My Pictures"={insert text string of path} [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\User Shell Folders] ;;"My Pictures"={export hex string of path} from there you could delete the folder from My Documents w/ the batch file suggested above or.... ...I just noticed that under "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]" there is another key called "New"... its possibile that this key might create 'new' instances when deleted (but I'd back it up b4 testing if I were you...) hope that helps, & good luck B) Mine's far from empty otherwise I might test it myself. btw love the bds avatar

I ran into some problems with my dell oem -> UA cd as well. Never used nlite but i wasn't able to slipstream it manually (errors @ missing files on booting) so here's what I did that worked: - took another (not dell) oem cd from another machine that already had sp2 slipstreamed and replaced the winnt.sif - followed these unattended instructions for activation (specifically the "OEMBIOS.BIN Method") and ever since that point I haven't had any problems with it

that would work but ... if you wanted to enable it via a right-click menu or toggle button, etc. then it would defeat the purpose as one would need to navigate back to that location {in windows explorer} and all in all it would have just been easier to change via the Folder Options Dialog. I'm sure there's a way to do it dynamically (even if I have no clue how) because it does so thru the dialog.

I decided to update things a bit and while i was at it I threw together one you should be able to use. let me know if you have problems getting it to run/appear and i'll look at it again but I tested both the .exe alone and via context menu and both ways work fine on my end. Updated: select_all.zip New: browserback.zip Edit: Just thought I'd mention that originally you needed to edit the .reg file by removing the comment from the first line, but I just decided to take that out so there's less overhead. (aka you no longer need to edit anything just use that batch files)

ok i found this a few days ago and since everybody seems to have more requests than actual tweaks being posted i thought I'd post this: there is a modified version of RegShot that creates the text files with .reg syntax so the is significanty less editing to do (thanks to Achdine for original post).

thought i'd mention that someone posted a link to a modified version of RegShot that you don't have to convert to .reg syntax as I thought it was (semi-) relevant and might be useful to you.

Edit... nevermind I guess it works fine (for some reason I read "Alt + {Backspace}" even though that's not what you had) lol

was just replying in another thread and this might be a bit harder than I originally thought. Basically if we want a toggle button that instantly toggles some part of the UI then we're gonna need to get a bit more advanced than using reg tweaks. btw I'm still game for this but I'm prolly gonna need to find time to refresh my memory w/ VisC++ and do quite a bit of reading @ shell programming. but the more of a b**** something is to do, the better I feel if I actually manage to pull it off

I think I have a rough idea of what's going on. I wasn't able to get either of these to work just by entering the values into the registry (regardless of whether or not I closed the current explorer window I had open). I did notice that if you applied the tweak then closed the process "explorer.exe" and then restarted this process (aka "%windir%\explorer.exe") then you could open Windows Explorer and the tweak was applied. So here's what I think is happening: The registry entries only serve as flag variables so explorer can "remember" what its settings were when its being reloaded (such as after a reboot or being closed) because anything it had in RAM would be gone. So when you change these flag variables it doesn't take effect until explorer is reloaded. On the other hand, the shell must have a function ffor dynamically changing the UI (because it can update itself instantly when you change things from its dialogs) and it normally justs saves the current status of its UI settings in the registry before it closes. Bottom line? I think to accomplish an immediate UI change some programming is going to be needed, at least enough to give the shell an argument to toggle whatever feature you want it to change. Bad news? Few people will have the time/knowledge to pull this off (myself included). On the other hand, maybe if someone wrote the guys @ msdn an email they might point you in the right direction (of course they might just as likely "lose" your email but who knows)

thanks for the thanks but the real credit should go to Achdine (who pointed it out in another thread )

thanks (just curious)

... or give them a reason to avoid it and i agree, just for thinking that:

seems interesting...if a little slow. btw what version of winrar were you using?

are you replacing "HKEY_USERS\{SID string}" with "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" ? Edit: nm just realized this was older than your other thread

If you can settle with having on the context menus that appear when you right-click a file/folder then you could use a reg tweak like in my file below (don't worry only batch & reg files). One downside to this approach is that you need to use a command argument.. but the good news is sometimes you can cheat. What I did was write a script that uses the hotkeys (which I think back in explorer is Alt+{Left Arrow}) and call my script as the argument (well i gave it an app-path then called it that way...) Edit: I doublechecked and... I was right -- Alt+{Left Arrow} is the keyboard shortcut for back. So.. if you used Auto It and wrote a script with the following code.. you could compile the script. Then download my select_all.zip tweak, and replace all the "select all" stuff with "back" stuff. BUT THIS WILL **NOT** WORK ON FOLDER BACKGROUND CONTEXT; ONLY FOLDER/FILE CONTEXT. Code for an autoit script for "Back" Send("!{LEFT}") ; *OR* alternatively AutoIt provides a command for this: ; Send("{BROWSER_BACK}") ps - I tested the script both ways and they work fine under xp home. also if you use the app. paths for yours, you'll have to re-export with the corrct value because mine shows the path "%windir%\system32\select_all.exe" IN HEX. But you could probably skip that and just use the whole path in the menu command. but AFAIK, if you want to be able to add something to the context menu that appears when you right-click a folder's background you need to do some extra work (like using DLLs and registering a CLSID). now if i'm wrong about this anybody please free to correct me (and please demonstrate with examples) Or if anybody wants to show me the "right" way to do it, I'd love to get a pm with some example c++/vb/whatever. .

I had a similar problem a while back and Alanoll recommended www.eazyshare.com. have to say works pretty good.