Office shortcut

[jinkazama]

I'm searching for a tweak to place Office, Excel and other Office application icons on the user's desktop using regedit.

For example if i want add Computer icon i can use

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000

How can i do it for office applications?

Thank you

[GrofLuigi]

I think it's not possible using ONLY regedit.

My Computer, My Documents, etc. are shell folders built in to Windows (Explorer). You can't navigate IN/OUT of an Excel document or INTO/OUT OF the Excel program in Windows Explorer*. Think of what would happen with unsaved work, for example.

Besides, the place you mention is just controlling what to hide/show on desktop. The place where one would put a CLSID (if it's possible) would be HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\DelegateFolders (with or without the last part).

or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace (in control panel)

or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\DelegateFolders (in My Computer) (with or without the last part).

Microsoft Office 2003 CLSID's start around HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{00020810-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}. If you are dead set on making a try, you may place some of them in the above mentioned places and see what happens. Who knows, maybe we'll find something new. You'd have to find the main CLSID of Excel (there are several of them for several types of documents).

GL

* If not using OLE and/or Shell Extensions

Edited April 3, 2011 by GrofLuigi