Quick Launch

[rikgale]

Ok, after a solid 4 hours of reading in this forum and 6 installs of XPSP2 unattended on a virtual machine I got the quick launch to work.

Here's How (for those who can't....)

1) Open Regedit on your production machine (Mine is SP2 with all hotfixes)

2) Navigation your way down to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop

3) Once there do File --> Export and save as quicklaunch.reg

4) Copy/Move to your $OEM$

5) In your cmdlines.txt file add the line

"REGEDIT /S quicklaunch.reg"

6) Make sure that you include the " at each end

7) Save and make your ISO and off you go (hopefully)

This worked for me, I hope for those that are struggling, like I was, that this is of use. One thing that helped a lot was making my own reg key, at least then all the syntax within the key will be correct.

HTH

Rik

[^_^]

yeah, it's been covered before

that's been a tough one, but now it's whooped

[rikgale]

Just thought that I'd flag it to the top of the pile for all the newbies out there (such as myself)

[druiddk]

This works perfectly!! Thank you so much!!

Note: If anyone is wondering you do NOT have to manually create the QuickLaunch folder. Windows will make it for you :-)

Edited December 7, 2005 by druiddk

[Takeshi]

There're 4 Names under this key. Is it necessary to include all of them?

Previous posts have only included Taskbar and taskbarXP. Are Toolbars and Upgrade relevant?

[Grake]

Sorry Deleted*

Edited December 8, 2005 by Grake

[Halfwalker]

Doesn't seem to work here. XP starts up with no Quicklaunch visible, and tool bar locked. I unlock it, then enable it in properties, and copy several shortcuts to it. Then lock it again, and export the registry key, which looks like this :

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop]
"TaskbarWinXP"=hex:0c,00,00,00,08,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,aa,4f,28,68,\
  48,6a,d0,11,8c,78,00,c0,4f,d9,18,b4,0c,03,00,00,60,0d,00,00,00,00,00,00,16,\
  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,16,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00
"Toolbars"=hex:11,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
"Upgrade"=dword:00000001

That's installed as the first thing in my RunOnceEx.cmd, which is called from cmdlines.txt.

No quicklaunch bar

D.

[druiddk]

Here is mine:

I use cmdlines.txt in the $OEM$ folder:

[Commands]
"REGEDIT /S quickl.reg"

Obviously the quickl.reg is placed in the $OEM$ folder together with the cmdlines.txt

Here is my quickl.reg quickl.reg

Edited December 8, 2005 by druiddk

[prathapml]

No quicklaunch bar

D.

Thats coz the value for taskbar is not written to registry till you log-off.

You should make the desired changes, reboot once, then export that key.

@rikgale:

I see that the reg_binary value for "taskbar", contains %username% & folder paths.

So would it work only for the current user? or does it adjust accordingly, when applied to a different user ID?

[itsme_4ucz]

wat ll this be runonceex commond for this

[Commands]

"REGEDIT /S quickl.reg"

[druiddk]

@itsme_4ucz

You should NOT do this during RunOnceEx since at that point the installation is no longer working under the DefaultUser, hence the tweak will only apply to the Administrator and not any other users.

[Halfwalker]

I'm not so sure about that. cmdlines.txt is processed, running all the commands it find in there. How is it to know that the line

"REGEDIT /S quicklaunch.reg"

Should be run as default user, yet the next line

"RunOnceEx.cmd"

should not ?

I do the same thing to set up RocketDock preferences ... The RunOnceEx.cmd contains this :

REGEDIT /S %cdrom%\$OEM$\RocketDock.reg
REGEDIT /S %cdrom%\$OEM$\quicklaunch.reg
md "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Security"
md "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\DVD"

Where RocketDock.reg contains this :

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RocketDock-v0.9.4]
"Version"="1.1.1"
"CustomIconFolder"=""
"Theme"="ProtoSky"
"ThemeOpacity"="100"
 :
 :

That works fine. If I create a new user, it inherits this config. I'm more inclined to believe prathapml - have to logoff to have the registry entries get written - something I did NOT do. I just made my changes, then exported the key. I'll try the full deal today ...

11:40am EST

OK, it almost worked. I set up the quicklaunch bar with additional icons, sized it, locked the taskbar. Logged off. Logged back on. Exported the key - yup - much longer now. Put that regfile into my CD source, rebuilt, and reinstalled into a VM.

The quicklaunch bar is now enabled, but the additional icons I put in there did not show up. Dang it.

D.

Edited December 9, 2005 by Halfwalker

[Halfwalker]

Further testing ...

I deleted one icon from the quicklaunch bar. Rebooted. It came back up with that icon NOT there, as expected.

I merged the quicklaunch.reg from before. Ah-ha! The icon did not reappear.

So it seems that the Desktop key is not all that has to be exported to get everything ...

More testing ....

D.

[Powerhouse]

Not sure what exactly the problem with Quick Launch is, but here is the Registry Key I have used on dozens of different machines without ever having a problem...

;-----  Enable Quick Launch Bar
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop]
"Default Taskbar"=hex:0c,00,00,00,08,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,b0,e2,2b,\
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 01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,4c,00,00,00,01,14,02,00,00,\
 00,00,00,c0,00,00,00,00,00,00,46,83,00,00,00,10,00,00,00,a0,b0,48,5e,89,8d,\
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 00,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,13,01,14,00,1f,0f,e0,4f,\
 d0,20,ea,3a,69,10,a2,d8,08,00,2b,30,30,9d,19,00,23,44,3a,5c,00,00,00,00,00,\
 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,cd,97,15,00,31,00,00,00,00,00,af,24,5c,\
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 45,52,4e,7e,31,00,24,00,31,00,00,00,00,00,db,22,76,ba,10,00,51,75,69,63,6b,\
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 00,00,01,00,00,00,1c,00,00,00,36,00,00,00,0d,f0,ad,ba,8c,00,00,00,1a,00,00,\
 00,03,00,00,00,e7,18,2d,23,10,00,00,00,49,45,35,30,30,5f,58,31,43,00,43,3a,\
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 66,74,5c,49,6e,74,65,72,6e,65,74,20,45,78,70,6c,6f,72,65,72,5c,51,75,69,63,\
 6b,20,4c,61,75,6e,63,68,00,00,10,00,00,00,05,00,00,a0,1a,00,00,00,a3,00,00,\
 00,00,00,00,00,08,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,cc,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,\
 4a,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,40,00,32,00,e6,01,00,00,c4,24,15,9f,20,00,4c,61,75,\
 6e,63,68,20,49,6e,74,65,72,6e,65,74,20,45,78,70,6c,6f,72,65,72,20,42,72,6f,\
 77,73,65,72,2e,6c,6e,6b,00,4c,41,55,4e,43,48,7e,32,2e,4c,4e,4b,00,00,00,40,\
 00,00,00,02,00,00,00,36,00,32,00,48,02,00,00,c4,24,15,9f,20,00,4c,61,75,6e,\
 63,68,20,4f,75,74,6c,6f,6f,6b,20,45,78,70,72,65,73,73,2e,6c,6e,6b,00,4c,41,\
 55,4e,43,48,7e,31,2e,4c,4e,4b,00,00,00,36,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,2c,00,32,00,\
 51,00,00,00,ec,22,46,39,20,00,53,68,6f,77,20,44,65,73,6b,74,6f,70,2e,73,63,\
 66,00,53,48,4f,57,44,45,7e,31,2e,53,43,46,00,00,00,52,00,00,00,e0,00,00,00,\
 00,00,00,00,16,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,16,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,01,\
 00,00,00,01,00,00,00,aa,4f,28,68,48,6a,d0,11,8c,78,00,c0,4f,d9,18,b4,37,02,\
 00,00,e0,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,16,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,16,00,00,\
 00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00
"TaskbarWinXP"=hex:0c,00,00,00,08,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,b0,e2,2b,\
 d8,64,57,d0,11,a9,6e,00,c0,4f,d7,05,a2,22,00,1c,00,0a,01,00,00,1a,00,00,00,\
 01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,4c,00,00,00,01,14,02,00,00,\
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This is part of a Registry entry ("REGEDIT /S regtweaks.reg") that is run from the cmdlines.txt file (so before RunonceEx.cmd is run).

1. If there are programs I wish to add or remove from Quicklaunch, I put the programs under this folder:

$OEM$\$Docs\Default User\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

Now the above is only for the Default user, if you want everyone who logs onto the PC to have the same programs in their quicklaunch, you need to use the

\$Docs\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

2. Here is how I delete some of the default icons that are in the Quick Launch bar, in my Cleanup.cmd file I have the following listed...

DEL /F /Q "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Show Desktop.scf"

DEL /F /Q "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Nero Startsmart.lnk"

DEL /F /Q "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\IsoBuster.lnk"

DEL /F /Q "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Ad-Watch SE Personal.lnk"

DEL /F /Q "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\QuickTime Player.lnk"

Hope this helps anyone having issues with Quicklaunch.

Edited December 9, 2005 by prathapml

[rikgale]

@rikgale:

I see that the reg_binary value for "taskbar", contains %username% & folder paths.

So would it work only for the current user? or does it adjust accordingly, when applied to a different user ID?

I seem to have the q/l bar for all users, but I run this tweak from cmdlines.txt, so I guess that's why all users have it.