Personalized Menus

[David Trimboli]

In Windows 2000, the Programs list in the Start Menu hides all but the most
recently used shortcuts. This is called Personalized Menus. I'm trying to
determine how this works. My assumption is that it's a registry key
somewhere that's handling this behavior. I've done extensive testing, but I
can't seem to find exactly what I'm looking for.

Can someone point me in the right direction here? I'm interested in
accessing this information in order to script some interesting features
(e.g., a recently used programs toolbar).

David
Stardate 3659.4

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Does this help:

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/513/

Will

 

[David Trimboli]

No, this just turns the feature on or off. It doesn't indicate any
properties of the feature, like which programs are being hidden, or how
many.

David
Stardate 3659.5

Hi

Does this help:

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/513/

Will

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

I can't find anymore, but the following link may help - left hand column:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/w2rkbook/regentry.asp

Will

 

[Jack]

David,

you have me fascinated here.

Because of the environment that I work in (a college) I am
able to just disable the Personalized Menu feature which
meets the requirement at the moment.

I can give you a few tips though.

(1) It is a registry key. Use of a file system object for
this purpose just does not make any sense.

(2) It will exist under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

(3) It will probably be under the \Explorer subkey as this
generally handles the desktop which personalized menus of
this nature fall under.

(4) This leaves a lot of subkeys to be examined but that
is your problem and not mine. However I would limit your
search to this area.

Hope this helps,

Jack.