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#1 User is offline   Kindovic 

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Posted 20 September 2008 - 05:40 PM

Hi

Under the vista start menu, i can see shortcuts to music, pictures, saved game, documents and the user folder. Is there anyway to add the "Downloads" in the user folder shortcut to the start menu?

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Posted 20 September 2008 - 05:57 PM

Not really, the only way is to sacrifice one of thoes other folders on the rite. Right click on the folder you want to change and go to properties. Change the name under the general tab (example: music changes to Downloads), then go to the location tab, hit the move button and select the location of your download folder.

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Posted 20 September 2008 - 09:39 PM

icic...
so there's no other way?

thanks

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Posted 20 September 2008 - 09:55 PM

Ya, I know, its crappy that you cant add folders.
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Posted 21 September 2008 - 10:40 PM

wat to do??
tat's M$ for u
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  Posted 23 September 2008 - 12:33 PM

Only way to do it is to replace "Games" with "Downloads" using these registry entries:

 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83b1-96b02CFE0D52}]
@="Downloads"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83b1-96b02CFE0D52}\DefaultIcon]
@="imageres.dll,-184"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83b1-96b02CFE0D52}\InProcserver32]
@="shell32.dll"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83b1-96b02CFE0D52}\shell\open\command]
@="explorer.exe shell:Downloads"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83B1-96B02CFE0D52}]
@="Downloads" 


To remove and set back to default:

 
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83b1-96b02CFE0D52}]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83B1-96B02CFE0D52}] 


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Posted 25 September 2008 - 01:36 AM

wow thanks for the help!!

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