googlymoogly Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 First off, yes, I'm one of those "XP guys". I'm however using Vista at work. I do OK, but after 4 or so months, I'm still having problems adjusting to a few Explorer changes and, frankly, bugs. 1. Does anyone know how to hide/remove the command bar in Explorer? The "Organize"/"View" etc. one. I know the trick probably involves the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\ShellBrowser and/or the IT7BarLayout value. I have a couple of .reg files for Win2K/XP that removes the menu bar from Explorer by changing the ITBarLayout value (and the new one in Vista is called, AFAIK, the IT7Bar). It could also have something to do with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Commandbar, though I believe that's only for IE7. However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to modify or figure out that data since it's in binary. 2. The file size display bug. Okay, so, I guess it might be intended behaviour not to show the total size of all items in the current folder (not counting subdirectories) in the status bar anymore, but it sure can't be intended that sometimes it will, and sometimes it won't, show the total size of all SELECTED ITEMS. More often than not, I have to press Alt+Enter to get Explorer to count it. Note I'm talking about the old-fashioned status bar, not the information field. I noticed the exact same behaviour in the Windows 7 beta. 3. Does anyone know of a "fix" to restore the Backspace = "up one level" instead of "back"? I get the idea behind it, to make it behave more like IE does, but navigation and structure of the web is not really identical to a hierarchical filesystem, plus I've been an avid user of Backspace since 1995, so this change causes me a lot of grief (to add insult to injury, it requires me to remove my hand from the mouse to do Alt+Up, which is a two-hand maneuovre). I was fiddling with AutoHotkey, but I don't think it's possible not to trigger the "up" command when you're, for instance, pressing backspace when renaming a file or folder. 4. The Taskbar. I've, for the past 8 or so years, had it docked to the left side of the screen. In Vista, its minimum width is 3 times that of in XP. Am I out of luck here? It's a little better in Windows 7, but still twice as wide as I'd like/need it to be. I am a bit disappointed that Microsoft didn't seem to do anything to Explorer in Windows 7, except for adding support for some new stuff like the Libraries. The misaligned stuff in the Windows Classic theme wasn't fixed either. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malskazz Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 As for the explorer command bar, i needs to be done in the shellstyle.dll... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
googlymoogly Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 Ah I see! The FolderBand stuff in shellstyle.dll. Thanks a bunch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted January 18, 2009 Veteran Share Posted January 18, 2009 In case you need it, I uploaded the edited shellstyle.dll last October. If you rename the shellstyle.dll to shellstyle_old.dll for example, and copy this one in its place then the folderband will no longer show (explorer.exe restart required). I've uploaded the edited shellstyle.dll, should you require it.http://localhostr.com/files/2e905a/nofolderband.rar EDIT: Attached the file too, in case the original link doesn't work in the future. nofolderband.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
googlymoogly Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 Thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
googlymoogly Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 I've got the FolderBand sorted. Thanks again. Now, is there any possibility of hiding the entire field containing the Back/Forward buttons, breadcrumbs and search field? I don't use Windows Search, I use Locate32 instead, so it's pretty useless, and I use the keyboard for the rest. Also, something else that drives me nuts is the removal of a great (but little known) feature from XP: In XP you can right-click the icon in the titlebar of an Explorer window, and get the context menu for the actual folder, so you can send it to another location or process it with whatever entries you have in your folder context menus, or quickly open its Properties window. You could also drag this icon and it'd be like you were dragging the folder entry from the containing folder. This has been removed in Vista. I guess to re-enable this feature one has to create a program that hooks into Explorer and modify the window(s)... ugh. I do make a living as a C++/C# developer, but Win32 programming is new to me and a bit daunting (can't be more idiotic than MFC though, I hope). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fascist Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 I don't think anyone have looked into that tbh :\ Its probably hardcoded into Explorer.exe or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grope for Luna Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 If you use the Quero toolbar (An IE toolbar) you can enable it in Explorer and get rid of the address bar/buttons. You will have a small Quero logo left but you can move that to the side. With a resource editor, you might be able to get rid of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathryn Scheller Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 I'm looking for any Registry fixes that will remove items from the Organizer Bar. I'd like to remove all the various buttons except for Organize and View. I happen to come across one that removes the Burn button, but it would be nice to find out how to remove additional buttons. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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