Is it possible to have more than 5 icons (places) on the XP standard Place Bar?

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yanwc

Is it possible to have more than 5 icons (places) on the XP standard
Place Bar? I know about Tweak UI. I just want to know if it possible to
have more than 5 icons? This is different to the Office Place Bar,
which I know can have up to 256 icons. :)

Thanks
 
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yanwc said:
Is it possible to have more than 5 icons (places) on the XP
standard Place Bar? I know about Tweak UI. I just want to
know if it possible to have more than 5 icons? This is
different to the Office Place Bar, which I know can have up
to 256 icons. :)

Thanks
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Every article I've seen on this says the fives the limit. The
locations that can be set up using TweakUI are stored in this
registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
Policies\comdlg32\Placesbar

Within that key there will be values named Place0, Place1,
Place2, Place3 and Place4. While you can create additional
values, such as Place5, they do not show up in the Places bar.
As a matter of fact I created a Place5 value and deleted the
value for Place 3 leaving five values under the registry key.
When I checked the Places bar there were only 4 entries in the
left hand column which leads me to believe that any values
numbered beyond Place4 are simply ignored by Windows.

Here are some article which seem to confirm that five's the
limit:

How can I edit the default Places bar quick links in Windows
XP's and Windows 2000's Open and Save common dialog boxes?
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/24828/24828.html?Ad=1

Courtesy of Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP
Edit the Places bar locations in 'Open/Save As' common dialog
boxes
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/PlacesBar.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
Hi Nepatsfan

I just want to confirm that it's only five. I tried what you did with
the registry entry, same thing happends. I just want to make sure. ;)

Thanks!
yanwc
 
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