[Vista SP1 Registry Trick] Add "Search" in start menu

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[Vista SP1 Registry Trick] Add "Search" in start menu

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neo View Member Profile	Feb 24 2008, 11:57 AM Post #1
Microsoft® MVP Group: Members Posts: 1249 Joined: 31-March 06 From: India Member No.: 92414 OS: Vista Ultimate x86	Hello Everyone, Microsoft has been released Vista sP1 to RTM since 4 Feb 2008 and available to MSDN/Technet or Microsoft Connect users and will be available publically soon. In Vista SP1, lots of bugs're fixed. But a thing that annoying me, they have removed centerlized "Search" from Start menu. So here is the registry trick that enable centerlized "Search" in start menu by replacing "Run..." and via (My) Computer context menu. Copy n paste this reg code into notepad and save as <file name>.reg file. Double click and patch it. CODE Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; "Search" in start menu by replacing "Run..." [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f3-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}] @="Search" "LocalizedString"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,\ 6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,65,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,\ 00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,2c,00,2d,00,37,00,30,00,32,00,30,00,00,00 "InfoTip"="@explorer.exe,-7000" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f3-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\DefaultIcon] @=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\ 00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,69,00,6d,00,\ 61,00,67,00,65,00,72,00,65,00,73,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,2d,00,31,\ 00,37,00,37,00,00,00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f3-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\InProcServer32] @=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\ 00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\ 64,00,6f,00,63,00,76,00,77,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00 "ThreadingModel"="Apartment" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f3-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Instance] "CLSID"="{3f454f0e-42ae-4d7c-8ea3-328250d6e272}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f3-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Instance\InitPropertyBag] "CLSID"="{13709620-C279-11CE-A49E-444553540000}" "command"="@shell32.dll,-12708" "method"="FindFiles" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f3-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f3-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f3-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{2559a1f3-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f3-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex\MayChangeDefaultMenu] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f3-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\ShellFolder] "Attributes"=dword:00000000 ; Enable or disable "Search" in Start menu from start menu and taskbar properties Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\StartMenu\StartPanel\ShowRun] "Type"="checkbox" "Text"="Search" "HKeyRoot"=dword:80000001 "RegPath"="Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Advanced" "ValueName"="Start_ShowRun" "CheckedValue"=dword:00000001 "UncheckedValue"=dword:00000000 "HelpID"="windows.hlp#51142" "DefaultValue"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\StartMenu\StartPanel\ShowRun\Policy] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\StartMenu\StartPanel\ShowRun\Policy\NoRun] @="" ; "Search" as context menu under the (My) Computer [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Search] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Search\command] @="explorer" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Search\ddeexec] @="[FindFolder(\"%l\", %I)]" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Search\ddeexec\application] @="Folders" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Search\ddeexec\topic] @="AppProperties" You may log off and reboot to take effect.