Classic folders... ugh!

[pkx]

I'm pulling my hair out here . For the life of me, I can't get "classic folder view" enabled by default (which removes the left "pane" in any explorer window).

Some searching pulled up this key:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; Use Windows classic folders
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"ShellState"=hex(3)& #58;24,00,00,00,33,88,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
01,00,00,00,0D,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"WebView"=dword:00000000

(I have the (3)& #58 corrected and removed the improper line wrapping of course)

I've got this in my HKCU.reg being called from cmdlines.txt. All of my other registery edits in HKCU get applied perfectly, but the 88 hex value in the key above magically turns to a8 by the time windows boots. Also, the Webview key gets set back to 1. When I re-set the WebView key to 0, it does what I want. I could import this upon first boot, but I really need it to be the default new account setting.

Help! How did you get classic folders enabled by default??

I will paypal $10 to the individual that figures this out for me. That's how much it's bugging me .

Thanks!

Edited January 15, 2006 by pkx

[pkx]

w00t! Found the answer:

http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t25984.html

[jfmartel]

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