Open/Save As File Shortcut

[Guest]

When you "save as" or "open" file a dialog box opens allowing you to navigate
to the file or folder. On the left side of this box is a shortcut menu with
the following icons:
My Recent Documents, Desktop, My Documents, My Computer, My Network Places..
Can these available selections be edited??

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Yep, they sure can. Here are two ways that I know of (and there are
probably more):

TweakUI provides an interface to do this:

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

If you don't want all of TweakUI, and you're feeling a little
adventurous, lookee here:

"How to customize the My Places bar in both the Open and the Save As
dialog boxes in Office"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;826214

 

[Guest]

Thank you,, ain't hard at all...

Yep, they sure can. Here are two ways that I know of (and there are
probably more):

TweakUI provides an interface to do this:

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

If you don't want all of TweakUI, and you're feeling a little
adventurous, lookee here:

"How to customize the My Places bar in both the Open and the Save As
dialog boxes in Office"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;826214

 

[Wesley Vogel]

There are three ways, Ted.

You can use TweakUI, Edit the registry or if XP Pro, use System Policy
Editor.

For Group Policy if XP Pro.
Open Group Policy...
Start | Run | Type: gpedit.msc | Click OK |
Navigate to >>
User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\
Windows Explorer\Common Open File Dialog\
Items displayed in Places Bar

Items displayed in Places Bar
http://www.boyce.us/gp/gpcontent.asp?ID=567


[[First you add to
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg32\
the PlacesBar subkey. In PlacesBar, create the REG_DWORD values Place0,
Place1, Place2, Place3, and Place4. These correspond to the five available
buttons from top to bottom. The common dialog boxes will display only the
buttons specified by these values; if there is a PlacesBar subkey with no
values, an empty places bar will be displayed. Then set PlacesN to one of
the settings in shown in Table]]

Folders for the Places Bar
Folder Value
Desktop 0x00
Favorites 0x06
My Documents 0x05
My Music 0x0D
My Computer 0x11
Network Neighborhood 0x12
History 0x22
My Pictures 0x27
Recent Documents 0x08

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Policies\comdlg32\PlacesBar
Place0
Place1
Place2
Place3
Place4

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Lawrence J. Gardner]

You can also create the PlacesN value as REG_EXPAND_SZ, so you can use
environment variables. I have a My Downloads folder to contain all Internet
Downloads and I set Places4 to REG_EXPAND_SZ to %USERPROFILE%/My
Documents/My Downloads.

You can only do this thru Regedit, though.