I'd like to be able to have the windows 7 start menu link to folders and not link to the stupid libraries. In Windows vista you could add the the Downloads folder into the start menu with messing with the registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83b1-96b02CFE0D52}]
@="Downloads"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83b1-96b02CFE0D52}\DefaultIcon]
@="imageres.dll,-184"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83b1-96b02CFE0D52}\InProcserver32]
@="shell32.dll"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83b1-96b02CFE0D52}\shell\open\command]
@="explorer.exe shell:Downloads"
;© 2008 Ramesh Srinivasan - http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/ - Created on July 10 2008
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83B1-96B02CFE0D52}]
@="Downloads"
I'd like to be able to change the link within the registry for Windows 7 Ultimate x64 to where the "Documents" link actually takes me to MY DOCUMENTS O:
How revolutionary would this be?
Could someone with some more registry editing knowledge help me out with this?
link to the site where I downloaded this .bat: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/add-downloads-folder-to-the-windows-vista-start-menu/
EDIT:
Okay I did digging around in the windows 7 registry: The shell folder location is located in: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
Now, I then looked into the Folder Descriptions section, And low and behold:
> "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{2112AB0A-C86A-4ffe-A368-0DE96E47012E}]
> "Name"="MusicLibrary"
> "Category"=dword:00000004
> "ParsingName"="::{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}\\{2112AB0A-C86A-4ffe-A368-0DE96E47012E}"
> "Stream"=dword:00000001
> "StreamResource"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,\
> 6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,\
> 00,73,00,68,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,\
> 2d,00,32,00,00,00
> "StreamResourceType"="LIBRARY"
> "RelativePath"="Music.library-ms"
> "ParentFolder"="{1B3EA5DC-B587-4786-B4EF-BD1DC332AEAE}"
> "Icon"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,\
> 00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,69,00,\
> 6d,00,61,00,67,00,65,00,72,00,65,00,73,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,2d,\
> 00,31,00,30,00,30,00,34,00,00,00
> "InfoTip"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,\
> 6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,\
> 00,73,00,68,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,\
> 2d,00,31,00,32,00,36,00,38,00,39,00,00,00
> "LocalizedName"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,\
> 6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,\
> 00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,\
> 2c,00,2d,00,33,00,34,00,35,00,38,00,34,00,00,00
> "PreCreate"=dword:00000001"
Comparing this to the Downloads LINK
Key Name:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions{374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B} Class Name: Last Write Time: 7/13/2009 - 10:53 PM Value 0 Name: Name
Type: REG_SZ Data:
DownloadsValue 1 Name: Category
Type: REG_DWORD Data:
0x4Value 2 Name:
RelativePath Type: REG_SZ Data: DownloadsValue 3 Name: Roamable
Type: REG_DWORD Data:
0x1Value 4 Name:
PublishExpandedPath Type:
REG_DWORD Data: 0x1Value 5 Name:
LocalizedName Type:
REG_EXPAND_SZ Data:
@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21798Value 6 Name: PreCreate
Type: REG_DWORD Data:
0x1Value 7 Name: Attributes Type: REG_DWORD Data:
0x1Value 8 Name: Icon
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ Data: %SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-184
Now, does someone have advice for converting the Document LIBRARY link to Document FOLDER link?
EDIT EDIT:
Okay here is the location and contents for the list of folders to display in the start menu:
> Key Name: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 7/13/2009 - 10:53 PM
Value 0
Name: {F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1
Value 1
Name: {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1
Value 2
Name: {208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1
Value 3
Name: {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1
Value 4
Name: {5399E694-6CE5-4D6C-8FCE-1D8870FDCBA0}
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1
Value 5
Name: {59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1
Value 6
Name: {031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1
Value 7
Name: {B4FB3F98-C1EA-428d-A78A-D1F5659CBA93}
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1
Value 8
Name: {9343812e-1c37-4a49-a12e-4b2d810d956b}
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1
EDIT EDIT:
Okay, I have managed to make the windows library into a windows folder link. Now, I need some help trying to debug this: there are two My Document folders now, and I cannot locate any reason why it would do so...
Key Name: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{7b0db17d-9cd2-4a93-9733-46cc89022e7c}
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 3/2/2011 - 2:33 AM
Value 0
Name: Attributes
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1
Value 1
Name: Category
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x4
Value 2
Name: Icon
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: %SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-1002
Value 3
Name: LocalizedName
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Data: @%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-34575
Value 4
Name: Name
Type: REG_SZ
Data: Documents
Value 5
Name: PublishExpandPath
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1
Value 6
Name: PrecCreate
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1
Value 7
Name: RelativePath
Type: REG_SZ
Data: Documents
Value 8
Name: Roamable
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1
