question regarding IE toolbar.

[Guest]

Dear community,


By this I got a (small) question/problem concerning the default IE toolbar
(bar with 'Favorites' / 'Search' etc. options).
I want to customize this bar by adding several custom icons/links. I did
this by editing them into the registry under the 'hkey_local_machine' ->
software -> microsoft -> internet explorer -> extensions. This gave no
problems and icons are working perfectly. However I want these icons to be in
some sort of 'group' and separated by the 'separator' sign. I know this can
be done by pressing 'customize' on the IE toolbar itself, however these icons
must be placed onto a lot of other computers here as well and I am going to
create an installer for it. However I cannot find out how / where you can
automaticly let a 'separator' sign be created into the toolbar. Is it not
possible or are there settings you can place into the registry and if so how
/ where ?

Any help on this is surely very appreciated !

I thank all of you for reading this and I hope to receive an answer soon,

Friendly greets,

Mark Bosch

 

[Guest]

If you right-click the bar in question hit customise then you can select a
"Separator". "Add" that and "Move Up" or down then you can add separators. Im
not to sure if this is what you need to know. If not then Im sorry!

 

[Rob ^_^]

Hi JtUk,

The algorithim for the Button toolbar layout is quite complex and I have not
been able to find any documentation about it on msdn. You will find the
button layout under the cmdMapping key under Extensions.

I think the easiest way to implement a rollout of you configurations to
workstations is to design the layout on one machine (with your separators
and buttons placed where you want them), then export the full 'Extensions'
key from the registry (both the HKCU and HKLM) to a reg file. You can then
include the reg file in your setups or ADM scripts.

Regards.

 

[Guest]

Thank you both for your suggestions. Bob's idea works but this will overwrite
any custom icons already in place. With your information I now know how to
insert a separator while using the registry, but this requires me to add a
line of values to a key instead of replacing it. Is there an easy way to
append text to a key?

I had no idea that this was going to be this difficult