Customising Common Tasks

[Doctor Trout]

I was wondering, does anyone reckon there's a way of altering the Common Tasks panel in Windows XP - I mean, changing the text, the functions, and adding and removing items on it.

I assume all of the strings are stored in shell32.dll somwhere, but I'm not good enough at reshacking to work out how to change the action.

I mean, for example in the String Table section in 1956 are a few commands.

STRINGTABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
{
31280, 	"Plays all or the selected music files in this folder."
31281, 	"Shop for music online"
31282, 	"Connects you to the Windows Media Web site where you can find music to download and buy."
31283, 	"Picture Tasks"
31284, 	"These tasks apply to the picture files and folders you select."
31285, 	"Get pictures from camera or scanner"
31286, 	"Transfers pictures from a camera or scanner to your computer."
31287, 	"View as a slide show"
31288, 	"Arranges all the pictures in this folder into a slide show."
31289, 	"Set as desktop background"
31290, 	"Uses the selected picture, pattern, or HTML document as the background for your computer screen."
31291, 	"These tasks apply to your computer or the selected hardware device."
31292, 	"Search for files or folders"
31293, 	"The Search Companion helps you find files, folders, printers, and people."
31294, 	"View system information"
31295, 	"Shows information about your computer, such as the processor speed and the amount of installed memory."
}

So presumably I could edit the text or remove it entirely - but how would I change the action? I mean, take "Shop for Music Online"; what does the "31281" refer to?

I'm assuming here that the best way to do this is through reshacking. I mean, I notice the text is also referred to in the registry at:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache]

I didn't know if anyone else had tried this, or knew where to point me in the right direction.