Web View in XP is possible

By KikiRicky
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I did it on XP SP3. Well, the problem is that I succeeded with only one folder as of now. Now it has the 98/Me/2000-like Web View instead of Common Tasks, which is replaced.

I did these registry tweaks, suggested here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/819028 and used the IESHWIZ in the folder to customize the folder background. It asked me to run ActiveX content when I entered the folder the next day and the Web View panel showed instead of the Common Tasks one. Since I've never seen screenshots of Web View in Windows XP, I decided to make one and share it with you. ;)

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Well, I hate Aero GUI. I'd rather keep my XP as long as possible and then will migrate to Mac.

Anyway, here is the final result I achieved:

a172gw.jpg

And here is the final version of the 'Folder.htt' file if anyone needs it (some lines were removed in order to work in XP):


<%WinShell = CreateObject("WinShellHTMLPreProc")%>
<!--
* Copyright 1999 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
-->
<html>
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
	</head>
	<style>
		body		{margin: 0; font: menu; color: black}
		#Panel	  {position: absolute; width: 200px; height: 100%; visibility: hidden; overflow: auto}
		#Corner	 {padding-left: 12px; padding-top: 11px}
		#FolderIcon {width: 32px; height: 32px}
		#FolderName {margin-top: 8px; font: 13pt/13pt menu; font-weight: bold}
		#LogoLine   {width: 100%; height: 1px; margin-top: 4px; vertical-align: top}
		#Details	{padding-left: 12px; margin-top: 8px}
		#Locked	 {vertical-align: baseline}
		.Legend	 {margin-left: 8px}
		#Brand	  {position: absolute; left: 200px; width: 100%; height: 100%; padding-left: 12px}
		p		   {margin-top: 12px}
		p.Half	  {margin-top: 4px}
		button	  {font: 8pt Tahoma; margin-left: 12px; background: white; color: black}
   .Message	{width: 100%; frameBorder: 0; background: infobackground; color: infotext}
		#FileList   {position:absolute; width:0; height:100%; border:0}
	</style>
	<body scroll=no>
		<div id=Panel style="background: white url('wvleft.bmp') no-repeat; ">
			<div id=Corner>
				<object id=FolderIcon classid="clsid:844F4806-E8A8-11d2-9652-00C04FC30871" tabIndex=-1>
					<param name="scale" value=100>
				</object>
				<br>
				<div id=FolderName>
					%THISDIRNAME%
				</div>
			</div>
			<img id=LogoLine src="wvline.gif">
			<div id=Details>
				<span id=CSC>
					<div tabIndex=2 id=CSCHotTrack>
					<span id=CSCText>
					</span>
					</div>
				<span id=Info>
				</span>
				<br>
				<span id=MediaPlayerSpan>
				</span>
				<object id=Thumbnail classid="clsid:71650000-E8A8-11d2-9652-00C04FC30871" tabIndex=-1>
				</object>
				<label id=ThumbnailLabel for="Thumbnail" style="display: none">
				</label>
				<span id=Links>
				</span>
			</div>
		</div>
		<object id=FileList classid="clsid:1820FED0-473E-11D0-A96C-00C04FD705A2" tabIndex=1>
		</object>
		<object id=WVCoord classid="clsid:BCFD624E-705A-11d2-A2AF-00C04FC30871">
		</object>
	</body>
</html>
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  On 02/10/2011 at 06:01, xpclient said:

The OP did not say a word about Vista/7 in his OP until he was provoked. He just shared something that might be useful to XP users and at once the fanboys pounce on hims saying mean things.

@KikiRicky, I saw your post at BetaArchive. It's no use posting anything about XP on Neowin any more. The moderators also seem to have very lenient rules for fanboyism, offtopic remarks and rude replies. BetaArchive is the place where you won't be insulted for topics on older operating systems.

One of the reasons I've mainly migrated to linuxquestions.org and forums.debian.net , too many fanboys that tell you to "Upgrade to 7, then I'll answer your question".

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