Re: Adding items to the *RIGHT* pane of the Start Menu - Technical Discussion

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:38:43 +0100

Daniel Rudy wrote:

>
>I think I'm on the right track on figuring out how to add additional
>items to the start menu. So far, it seems that only Microsoft can do
>it, but the real clue was in a update that put the "Set Program Access
>and Defaults" onto the start menu. That update, 820291 had a really
>interesting file in it. It was explorer.exe. I'm not sure WHY
>Microsoft included a new version of explorer.exe for this update

It is provided so as to have the extra code to give that new facility,
including adding the interface in Start as a minor aspect. All the
registry keys are to handle the settings you can make in that way.

Kelly I think gave you a means of adapting a couple of existing items to
handle different folders. That is as far as you can go without having
the source code of explorer and rewriting a chunk of it 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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