Add Explorer Folder Views to the XP Desktop


	Add Explorer Folder Views to the XP Desktop

Kingsmob77

6-26-2008 10:30 AM

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windows, hack, tweak, desktop customize

Kingsmob77 says:

This is an old tweak but not a wdiley known one. I thought there may be some people who might like to give this a whirl.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#cccccc;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6a912b95-507d-49ac-be65-baa89628926a/786B07F4-92F5-499E-9EC4-0924A5ED468B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-view-menu-on-desktop-in-windows-xp/" href="http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-view-menu-on-desktop-in-windows-xp/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.askvg.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-view-menu-on-desktop-in-windows-xp/"><P>I always wondered why “VIEW” menu is not displayed on desktop, its displayed in each folder but not on desktop. I wanted to enable it on desktop so that I can set the desktop icons view, like Thumbnails, Small Icons, List, etc. That’s why yesterday I was playing with <STRONG>Shell32.dll</STRONG> file in Resource Hacker and found a way to enable it on desktop too after 2 hours r&d.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-view-menu-on-desktop-in-windows-xp/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.askvg.com/img/E39CB2FB-96DE-4F70-8E4E-898EBC19D7FD" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-view-menu-on-desktop-in-windows-xp/"><P><STRONG>1. </STRONG>Open <A href="http://www.AskVG.com/"><STRONG>%windir%\System32\Shell32.dll</STRONG></A> file in Resource Hacker.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-view-menu-on-desktop-in-windows-xp/"><P><STRONG>2. </STRONG>Goto: <STRONG>Menu -&gt; 215 -&gt; 1033</STRONG>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-view-menu-on-desktop-in-windows-xp/"><P><STRONG>3. </STRONG>In right-side pane, replace the line saying:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-view-menu-on-desktop-in-windows-xp/"><P>POPUP “&View”, 28674, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED, 0</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-view-menu-on-desktop-in-windows-xp/"><STRONG>to:</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-view-menu-on-desktop-in-windows-xp/"><P>POPUP “&View”, 0, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED, 0</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-view-menu-on-desktop-in-windows-xp/"><P>i.e., you have to only change the ID <A href="http://www.AskVG.com/"><STRONG>28674</STRONG></A> to <A href="http://www.AskVG.com/"><STRONG>0</STRONG></A>. 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