Pinned Program list

[Jerold Schulman]

Does anyone know of any command-line utility to add and delete items to the
Windows XP / Windows Server 2003 Pinned Program list on the Start menu?

The items are stored at:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage\Favorites
annd
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage\FavoritesResolve

as REG_BINARY data types.



Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Pavel Srubar]

Does anyone know of any command-line utility to add and delete items to the
Windows XP / Windows Server 2003 Pinned Program list on the Start menu?

MSDN describes cmd-line version if PIN/UNPIN:

Pin (Command Line)
Pins a specific version of a file in the current project.
Syntax
ss Pin VSS items [-G] [-H] [-N] [-V] [-W] [-Y] [-?]

Couldn't you prepare the registry key by hand
and then use REG.EXE for batch import/export?

See http://www.jsiinc.com/suba/tip0300/rh0319.htm
for REG.EXE info ;=)

Bye,
v
Sr.

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Does anyone know of any command-line utility to add and delete items to the
Windows XP / Windows Server 2003 Pinned Program list on the Start menu?

MSDN describes cmd-line version if PIN/UNPIN:

Pin (Command Line)
Pins a specific version of a file in the current project.
Syntax
ss Pin VSS items [-G] [-H] [-N] [-V] [-W] [-Y] [-?]

Couldn't you prepare the registry key by hand
and then use REG.EXE for batch import/export?

See http://www.jsiinc.com/suba/tip0300/rh0319.htm
for REG.EXE info ;=)

Bye,
v
Sr.

The command you describe is for Visual SoftSafe and NOT for explorer pinning.

The problem isn't editing the registry, it is interpretting the systax of the
entries so that I could edit it.



Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com