dittbub Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 I tried to make a "My Videos" one. how do i group it with my documents and my music? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-584675519 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted October 5, 2004 Share Posted October 5, 2004 you cant, it is a pre programmed hard coded location the OS determines where, this program jsust hijacks it for your own purposes there is a screenshot erlier that shows the DELL resourse center button, this link is programmed by MS into XP specificly for this OEM type of use Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-584677518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1o9 Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 OT: Looks like IPB is having some troubles with this thread, it's not properly rendering the templates. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-584807891 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luxx Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 just dl it priity cool thanks Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-585024876 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCUser Posted December 10, 2004 Share Posted December 10, 2004 hey gameguy. i havent' yet had the chance to be able to use your application at the moment, but i will be doing so in a couple of days. I am a oem system builder and i would like to know if theres a way to incorporate your program functions into windows, so once windows has installed on the computers your functions such as CustomerSupport will automatically be added into the start menu to save me time. Looking forward to your reply. Regards. Gavin (PCUser) :happy: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-585077416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Topham Hatt Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Hmm, there has to be something I can add in a DLL file or registry that I can add a link where the "My Documents", "My Music" and "My Pictures" are? I just want one extra one :/ Pete Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-585184713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimRogers Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Gameguy, will you post a new screenie cos they have all disappeared! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-585228263 Share on other sites More sharing options...
icexswipe Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 look on the previous page ^ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-585228849 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mixsynth Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Well I came here, hoping that SOMEHOW I could customize all the folders on the right side of the Start Menu, and hopefully add my own. What a shame you can't, due to sheer programming laziness. The only reason I ever wanted to customize them was for 2 reasons: the 'My Computer' menu only goes one level down (so you can't get down to any files, which is completely pointless when the 'My Documents' menu does exactly that) so I wanted to make a new shortcut that 'goes all the way', and also I wanted to add the 'History' menu (i.e. explorer/IE history) as a new item - you can achieve both in classic menu, why not in the 'new' version? It's a BIG shame Microsoft spent so much time making the left side of the start menu (the 'programs' side) so customizable, then totally failed to make the right side ('folders' side) customizeable at all - all you can do is hide/show a few hard-coded locations such as My Music, My Pictures, etc. - a lot of people don't even USE My Music and My Pictures. Ideally you should be able to add a folder link (using the standard 'Browse For Folder' common dialog), allow the user to cascade it (i.e. view its contents in a menu), and possibly even allow the user to turn on Personalized menus for the cascading menu (they spent so much time developing Personalized menus, only to all but drop them in XP when they are actually useful for folder menus like 'Favorites'). Look at the following reg key folder: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartMenu\StartPanel\ There are identical folders for "MyDocs", "MyPics", "MyMusic", etc. The framework is clearly in place for the user to add as many registry keys as he/she wants - all explorer.exe has to do is say "for each folder in the StartPanel reg group with these certain contents, make a link on the 'folders' pane". Microsoft were obviously too lazy to bother, and are still too lazy with Longhorn - the 'classic' start menu is still much more flexible than the new one, even 4 years after the release of XP! Looking at the screenshots for Longhorn, it looks like they've done NOTHING to allow people to fully customize the Folders pane of the Start Menu. If I had the programming skill, I'd hack explorer.exe to allow it... but sadly, I can't. Maybe someone else can have a go, hopefully soon! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-585420361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
samxt Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Nice little program. I've been doing this through the registry in the past, but i'll have to give it a whirl next time I want to change any of the icons that this program will let me change. Good job! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-585545516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pre Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Sounds nice, Im downloading it right now to install. :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-585739361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
k0pect8 Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 I've been using this EzyWin *see also "mySB" at same site would like to see a(n) NW version! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-585792758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolar475 Posted June 11, 2005 Share Posted June 11, 2005 i know a lot of you have been waiting for this for a while, and it's finally done :Dit's finally done, after some procrastination on my part :blush: and a few long nights spent trying to figure out the email icon, i decided to remove it, because i can't get all the parts of it to work. :crazy: also, it now needs SP1 for xp because a few problems could only be resolved by updating to SP1. if you do need SP1, it will tell you and automatically open the SP1 webpage. here it is, enjoy :woot: Edit: Due to Neowin's conversion to IPB 2.0, the file was lost. I've re-uploaded it, so no need to worry :p 3324 downloads so far! :woot: 954677[/snapback] Sory boys I am new and do not understand what does it do AND where to get it from. I would appreciate some help. MANY Thanks !!! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-586048591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakej Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Awesome work! (Y) Dolar, click on the file name (Start_Panel_Editor.zip) on the first post to download it. Once it's running, it allows you to add icons to the right side of the XP start menu. Radical Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-586064458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUARDiAN Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 Hey John, how does the Start Panel Editor determine if KB820291 is installed? I'm on MCE2005 which already has that update and SPE keeps telling me that I have to "Get Update for Extra Icon". I already added all the Registry-Keys that are mentioned in the hotfix.inf, but still no luck. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-586227131 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameMaster90 Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 Well I came here, hoping that SOMEHOW I could customize all the folders on the right side of the Start Menu, and hopefully add my own. What a shame you can't, due to sheer programming laziness. The only reason I ever wanted to customize them was for 2 reasons: the 'My Computer' menu only goes one level down (so you can't get down to any files, which is completely pointless when the 'My Documents' menu does exactly that) so I wanted to make a new shortcut that 'goes all the way', and also I wanted to add the 'History' menu (i.e. explorer/IE history) as a new item - you can achieve both in classic menu, why not in the 'new' version? It's a BIG shame Microsoft spent so much time making the left side of the start menu (the 'programs' side) so customizable, then totally failed to make the right side ('folders' side) customizeable at all - all you can do is hide/show a few hard-coded locations such as My Music, My Pictures, etc. - a lot of people don't even USE My Music and My Pictures. Ideally you should be able to add a folder link (using the standard 'Browse For Folder' common dialog), allow the user to cascade it (i.e. view its contents in a menu), and possibly even allow the user to turn on Personalized menus for the cascading menu (they spent so much time developing Personalized menus, only to all but drop them in XP when they are actually useful for folder menus like 'Favorites'). Look at the following reg key folder: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartMenu\StartPanel\ There are identical folders for "MyDocs", "MyPics", "MyMusic", etc. The framework is clearly in place for the user to add as many registry keys as he/she wants - all explorer.exe has to do is say "for each folder in the StartPanel reg group with these certain contents, make a link on the 'folders' pane". Microsoft were obviously too lazy to bother, and are still too lazy with Longhorn - the 'classic' start menu is still much more flexible than the new one, even 4 years after the release of XP! Looking at the screenshots for Longhorn, it looks like they've done NOTHING to allow people to fully customize the Folders pane of the Start Menu. If I had the programming skill, I'd hack explorer.exe to allow it... but sadly, I can't. Maybe someone else can have a go, hopefully soon! Fully agree with you, sir. :yes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-587134310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vladzaharia Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Necro Much. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-587139438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJD Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 What exactly does this application do? Im trying to enlarge my icons in Start > All Programs. Can it do that? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-587528523 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted May 27, 2006 Supervisor Share Posted May 27, 2006 No. It allows you to customize certain icons on the right side of the start menu in XP. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-587548390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunkydizco Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 Is it possible to change the "Control Panel" and "Set Program Access and Defaults" item? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-587566077 Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted June 3, 2006 Author Veteran Share Posted June 3, 2006 Is it possible to change the "Control Panel" and "Set Program Access and Defaults" item? Control Panel? Maybe, but I don't know how, and this program doesn't bother with it. Set Program Access and Defaults? Yes, but now that SP2 is released and includes that button, the code for that button doesn't work right. Unfortunately, I've stopped program development for Start Panel Editor, and I've moved on to bigger (and more interesting) projects. Not to mention I have a rather full life now - I didn't when I wrote this program :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-587569285 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthfader Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Glad you have a life, but this program made my life easier for about 10-20 clicks in an hour so I guess you were able to make the world better even then :p How can I make the OEM icon to open a folder, I have made it before but I dont remember now, cannot select folders or lnk files... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-587852774 Share on other sites More sharing options...
suta Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 hello.. wonder anyone know whats wrong.. it works with my Previous XP sp2.. but this time.. i reinstall my window.. and its xp sp2, i got the error need sp1.. did not have problem with my previous OS.. what happen? did i remove some file that requierd for this to work? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-588226842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tireless Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 I tried many times,but don't work on my computer (xp sp2 Professional Chinese) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-589552930 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Blue01 Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Its just modifying a registry entry so it should work even in SP3 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/85776-start-panel-editor-11/page/4/#findComment-589575248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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