I really don't want to open an age-old debate about this, but i couldn't resist sharing this with you all. You know how you can select what you do and don't want as shortcuts in the left pane of your finder windows really easily? I wanted to change the shortcuts on my work machine today and couldn't find a control panel so googled it. This is what you have to do in Windows (I kid you not):
07 December
Customize your place holder in Open / Save Dialog box
Q. How can I hide the Places bar in Widows XP's and Windows 2000's Open
and Save common dialog boxes?
A. The Open and Save common dialog boxes display a bar along the left- hand
side with quick links to the following default locations:
* History
* My Documents
* Desktop
* Favorites
* My Network Places
You can hide this bar by performing the following steps:
1. Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).
2. Navigate to the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\co
mdlg32 subkey. (If this subkey doesn't exist, select New, Key from the
Edit menu to create it.)
3. From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD Value.
4. Enter a name of
NoPlacesBar
and press Enter.
5. Double-click the new value, set it to 1, and click OK.
6. Close the registry editor.
The registry change will take effect immediately. To enable the Places
bar again, either delete the NoPlacesBar registry value or set it to 0.
This change will not affect applications within the Microsoft Office
suite but will affect applications, such as Notepad and Microsoft
Paint, that use the Open and Save common dialog boxes.
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Q. How can I edit the default Places bar quick links in Windows XP's
and Windows 2000's Open and Save common dialog boxes?
A. You can modify the five default quick links in the Open and Save
common dialog boxes by performing the following steps:
1. Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).
2. Navigate to the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\co
mdlg32 subkey. (If this subkey doesn't exist, select New, Key from the
Edit menu to create it.)
3. From the Edit menu, select New, Key.
4. Enter a name of
Placesbar
and press Enter.
5. Navigate to the new registry subkey. You can create five entries
(i.e., Place0, Place1, Place2, Place3, and Place4). Make each entry
either a string value (REG_SZ) entry (for a named folder) or a DWORD
value (REG_DWORD) entry (for a special folder, such as My Documents or
My Network Places).
6. To create a new entry, go to the Edit menu, select New, DWORD
Value or New, String Value (as appropriate), enter a name of Placen
(e.g., Place0, Place4), and press Enter.
7. Double-click the entry and set its REG_SZ "Value data" to a path
and folder name or its REG_DWORD "Value data" to a numeric ID (the
table below shows a partial list of these numeric IDs--the shlobj.h
file, which is part of the platform software development kit (SDK),
defines the full list of special numeric IDs).
8. Close the registry editor.
For example, the registry file below sets shortcuts to My Documents,
the CD burning folder, and three named folders.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Policies\comdlg32\Placesbar]
"Place0"=dword:00000005
"Place1"=dword:0000003b
"Place2"="d:\\temp"
"Place3"="d:\\documents"
"Place4"="g:\\windows"
This change will not affect applications within the Microsoft Office
suite but will affect applications, such as Notepad and Microsoft
Paint, that use the Open and Save common dialog boxes. Each new entry
you add will replace one of the default quick links.
ID Pathway
0 Desktop
1 Internet Explorer
2 Start Menu\Programs
3 My Computer\Control Panel
4 My Computer\Printers
5 My Documents
6 <user name>\Favorites
7 Start Menu\Programs\Startup
8 <user name>\Recent
9 <user name>\SendTo
a <desktop>\Recycle Bin
b <user name>\Start Menu
c Logical "My Documents" desktop icon
d "My Music" folder
e "My Videos" folder
10 <user name>\Desktop
11 My Computer
12 Network Neighborhood (My Network Places)
13 <user name>\Nethood
14 Windows\Fonts
16 All Users\Start Menu
17 All Users\Start Menu\Programs
18 All Users\Startup
19 All Users\Desktop
1a <user name>\Application Data
1b <user name>\PrintHood
1c <user name>\Local Settings\Application Data
(nonroaming) 0x001d // nonlocalized startup
1e Nonlocalized common startup
1f Common favorites
20 Internet cache
21 Cookies
22 History
23 All Users\Application Data
24 GetWindowsDirectory()
25 GetSystemDirectory()
26 C:\Program Files
27 C:\Program Files\My Pictures
28 USERPROFILE
29 x86 system directory on RISC
2a x86 C:\Program Files on RISC
2b C:\Program Files\Common
2c x86 Program Files\Common on RISC
2d All Users\Templates
2e All Users\Documents
2f All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools
30 <user name>\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools
31 Network and Dial-up Connections
35 All Users\My Music
36 All Users\My Pictures
37 All Users\My Video
38 Resource Directory
39 Localized Resource Directory
3a All Users OEM-specific applications
3b USERPROFILE\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CD Burning
What a heap of junk.
07 December
Customize your place holder in Open / Save Dialog box
Q. How can I hide the Places bar in Widows XP's and Windows 2000's Open
and Save common dialog boxes?
A. The Open and Save common dialog boxes display a bar along the left- hand
side with quick links to the following default locations:
* History
* My Documents
* Desktop
* Favorites
* My Network Places
You can hide this bar by performing the following steps:
1. Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).
2. Navigate to the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\co
mdlg32 subkey. (If this subkey doesn't exist, select New, Key from the
Edit menu to create it.)
3. From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD Value.
4. Enter a name of
NoPlacesBar
and press Enter.
5. Double-click the new value, set it to 1, and click OK.
6. Close the registry editor.
The registry change will take effect immediately. To enable the Places
bar again, either delete the NoPlacesBar registry value or set it to 0.
This change will not affect applications within the Microsoft Office
suite but will affect applications, such as Notepad and Microsoft
Paint, that use the Open and Save common dialog boxes.
--------------------
Q. How can I edit the default Places bar quick links in Windows XP's
and Windows 2000's Open and Save common dialog boxes?
A. You can modify the five default quick links in the Open and Save
common dialog boxes by performing the following steps:
1. Start a registry editor (e.g., regedit.exe).
2. Navigate to the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\co
mdlg32 subkey. (If this subkey doesn't exist, select New, Key from the
Edit menu to create it.)
3. From the Edit menu, select New, Key.
4. Enter a name of
Placesbar
and press Enter.
5. Navigate to the new registry subkey. You can create five entries
(i.e., Place0, Place1, Place2, Place3, and Place4). Make each entry
either a string value (REG_SZ) entry (for a named folder) or a DWORD
value (REG_DWORD) entry (for a special folder, such as My Documents or
My Network Places).
6. To create a new entry, go to the Edit menu, select New, DWORD
Value or New, String Value (as appropriate), enter a name of Placen
(e.g., Place0, Place4), and press Enter.
7. Double-click the entry and set its REG_SZ "Value data" to a path
and folder name or its REG_DWORD "Value data" to a numeric ID (the
table below shows a partial list of these numeric IDs--the shlobj.h
file, which is part of the platform software development kit (SDK),
defines the full list of special numeric IDs).
8. Close the registry editor.
For example, the registry file below sets shortcuts to My Documents,
the CD burning folder, and three named folders.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Policies\comdlg32\Placesbar]
"Place0"=dword:00000005
"Place1"=dword:0000003b
"Place2"="d:\\temp"
"Place3"="d:\\documents"
"Place4"="g:\\windows"
This change will not affect applications within the Microsoft Office
suite but will affect applications, such as Notepad and Microsoft
Paint, that use the Open and Save common dialog boxes. Each new entry
you add will replace one of the default quick links.
ID Pathway
0 Desktop
1 Internet Explorer
2 Start Menu\Programs
3 My Computer\Control Panel
4 My Computer\Printers
5 My Documents
6 <user name>\Favorites
7 Start Menu\Programs\Startup
8 <user name>\Recent
9 <user name>\SendTo
a <desktop>\Recycle Bin
b <user name>\Start Menu
c Logical "My Documents" desktop icon
d "My Music" folder
e "My Videos" folder
10 <user name>\Desktop
11 My Computer
12 Network Neighborhood (My Network Places)
13 <user name>\Nethood
14 Windows\Fonts
16 All Users\Start Menu
17 All Users\Start Menu\Programs
18 All Users\Startup
19 All Users\Desktop
1a <user name>\Application Data
1b <user name>\PrintHood
1c <user name>\Local Settings\Application Data
(nonroaming) 0x001d // nonlocalized startup
1e Nonlocalized common startup
1f Common favorites
20 Internet cache
21 Cookies
22 History
23 All Users\Application Data
24 GetWindowsDirectory()
25 GetSystemDirectory()
26 C:\Program Files
27 C:\Program Files\My Pictures
28 USERPROFILE
29 x86 system directory on RISC
2a x86 C:\Program Files on RISC
2b C:\Program Files\Common
2c x86 Program Files\Common on RISC
2d All Users\Templates
2e All Users\Documents
2f All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools
30 <user name>\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools
31 Network and Dial-up Connections
35 All Users\My Music
36 All Users\My Pictures
37 All Users\My Video
38 Resource Directory
39 Localized Resource Directory
3a All Users OEM-specific applications
3b USERPROFILE\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CD Burning
What a heap of junk.