Win 2000 File Open Dialog...

[Andreas]

I know this is a bit off-topic, but as Textpad 4.4.1 now supports the Win 2000 file open dialog (the one with the shortcut icons on the left) ...
It shows icons for
history
desktop
my computer
network envirnonment

Do you know how I can customize which shortcut icons are shown?
I'd like to add some folders.

TIA

Andreas

[George Schizas]

Easiest way: Download TweakUI 1.33 (http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/ ... weakUI.asp), install it, run it and go to the tab "Open". The only problem is that it is a system (or rather user) wide change, not an application specific change.

To change the icons, just change the icon in the added folder:
make the folder read only and create a desktop.ini such as this:

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=DOWNLOAD.ICO
IconIndex=0

Save it in the folder and make its attributes hidden.

[Andreas]

Thanks.
I wouldn't mind if it is a user-wide change.
I just want to have some often-used network folders easily reachable.

I will try TweakUI 1.33 first thing Monday morning, when I am back in office.

Andreas

[Andreas]

Thanks, it works. At least for 5 entries.

Even when I added a sixth item in the registry (under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg32\PlacesBar) it was not evaluated.

Any way to do that?
Or any way to set the box to a bigger size by default?

TIA
Andreas

[Frank Fesevur]

The new File Open is probably only supported in TextPad under Win2000. It doesn't work with WinME. Or did I miss something?

Frank

[Andreas]

Yes, I think it is a Win2000 dialog. But it is used by other programs under Win2000 as well as by Textpad.
Andreas