Windows Explorer Unattended View Tweaks Never Work

[Labe]

I have come across tons and tons of web pages having many tips, tweaks and so on.

I also tried to compare registry BEFORE and AFTER to find out what chaged.

But there is absolutely no way how to programatically, automatically, with REG file, with BAT file or in any other way chage the look of Windows Explorer.

You know, when you make Tools - Folder Options - "Use Windows Classic Folders" and you make it million times at all computers, it is something very annoying, absurd, hard to understand.

No REG tweaks deleting

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags]

work

neither those crazy

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]

"ShellState"=hex:24,00,00,00,23,88,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\

01,00,00,00,0a,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00

do not work

neither

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams]

"Settings"=hex:09,00,0 ...... and so on [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Defaults]

"{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8... and so on

do not work

please help ! Is there some Win API function to switch, command line utility,

is it maybe possible with WMI - I am not experienced user of API/WMI, but any hint would help me to find another sources on internet

maybe I have found some related stuff here

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/0...2kui2/print.asp

but still have no clue

It seems to me that when someone created this "enhancement", he did not use brain. Win XP is full of enforced functions that nobody needs.

Thank you for every tip

also when you write me "Task pane is very important to us ..because..."

but I did not find it any useful at all it slows down and complicates my browsing

Filip

[Br4tt3]

Dunno a "nice" way to do this hack but there is one thing that always works, however this is not a very clean/nice script function...

Use vbscript sendkeys to simulate a keyboard GUI click sequence... it will defintly work even though it is not silent or nice for that matter...

just be sure to run the sendkeys script when no other windows will blink / flash as the script wóuld then loose focus of the Window that u r trying to manipulate...

I guess u could use AutoIT to do the same trick...

[lilweirddude]

i think you need to try one of those settings loaders that some people have posted

iirc, the reg entries for those things vary from computer to computer