Places Bar

[Steven Vandenhoute]

Hello people,

as you can see, I'm still learning some AutoIT.

But I think it went well, so I tried to create my first real, and usefull program (are users will use it at work)

With the program I made you can modifie the places bar in windows without going true the gpedit

Places bar:

If you have Windows ME/2000/XP/2003, you've probably noticed that in all system applications, the Open dialog box has a new UI element. Along the left side, you have a vertical toolbar with buttons pointing to frequently used folders. This toolbar is called the Places Bar. By default, the Places Bar contains links to History, My Documents, Desktop, My Computer, and My Network Places. You can change these links.

Included you will find a rar file with the compiled version and all the source code I use.

Please feel free to give some comment, because I'm learning from my faults.

Thanks

places_bar.rar

[A. Percy]

It needs a little correction:

If I open it at first time and change only one item, it erase all my default items

[A. Percy]

You need create a button named "Restore Defaults", that deletes "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg32\Placesbar" key, then all turns to normal again!

[Steven Vandenhoute]

OK, I will add it this weekend

I've another problem.

In our company the register is blocked standardly.

Now, I can use runas( to open the register with admin accounts.

BUT how can I write directly to the register? Working with runas doesn't work. I need to use the regwrite function.

[Steven Vandenhoute]

How can I delete a subkey with autoIT?

If I use RegDelete("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg32\Placesbar") It does not delete the placesbar subkey.

Any idea?