Remove toolbar in vista explorer


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hello, is it possible to remove this toolbar, iether by a registry edit, or a hack of explorer.exe...

i'm desperate and have been googling for the last hour, but couldn't find a solution...

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thank you very much! i didn't know how to name the toolbar, so i got no results...

i just don't understand why microsoft didn't just add option to hide it to the right click menu...

Me neither. I guess we're just used to these kind of options with the apps we use.

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In case you need it, I uploaded the edited shellstyle.dll a couple of months ago. With this one, the toolbar is removed, rather than being auto-hidden.

thank you, but i am having trouble opening it with ResHacker.

i have a question: what's the difference between the shellstyle.dll in the system32 folder and the one that usually comes with a msstyle? i applied a theme that had it's own shellstyle.dll and i had edit that file again to hide the toolbar...

another question:

how can i change the selected item color of this tree view? when it looses focus, the font turns black and that makes it difficult to read sometimes.

changing "selected items" color in advanced appearance settings doesn't have effect.

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  • 2 weeks later...

I am also interested in solving this problem.

I want to remove both the green-blue toolbar and also the row of columns directly underneath, which I find totally redundant in any view other than Details.

I have tried the shellstyle.dll file posted above but this has had no effect.

Any suggestions?

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  • 4 weeks later...
I want to remove (...) and also the row of columns directly underneath, which I find totally redundant in any view other than Details.

Yeaah, I'm interested too in a fix for that. That row is the most annoying thing in Vista's UI after the shell explorer bar (that one with the Organize, View, etc. buttons).

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