Re: gpedit.msc Open and SaveAs dialog window PlacesBar tweak

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:25:44 +0300, Detlev Dreyer <detdreyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Marek Mänd <cador.soft@xxxxxxx> wrote:
...
Yes, I can hack registry and replace that Place(n) value of REG_SZ type
in
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg32\Placesbar]
with new DWORD 0x00000012 value. Then I also can see the "Entire
Network" icon in the "My Network Places" filelist.

But "WindowsXP Group Policy Editor" seems to accept only strings there.

Correct. AFAIK, the "WindowsXP Group Policy Editor" creates REG_SZ type
entries only within that key and does not take advantage of REG_DWORD
or REG_EXPAND_SZ.

Thank you for confirming.
This "Group Policy Editor" looks quite silly then, even though Microsoft probably thought of it as a powertool for admins to manage resources... ;D


I would like to know what is the mnemonic-constant/file-path in
"WindowsXP Group Policy Editor" to be entered, so that "Entire
Network" icon will also be visible in the "My Network Places" filelist
among other items?

No way - you may want to use "TweakUI" instead.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

TweakUI > Common Dialogs > Places Bar.

Thank you for your reply. Yes, I was aware of that WinXP-Powertool-TweakUI and before writing this post here I actually used it and convinced it works fine (one must select "Network Neighborhood" value from the dropdown) and allows to include also the "Entire Network" item under "My Network Places".

Seeing that TweakUI uses the term "Network Neighborhood" I tried the idea to write into "Policy editor" the value "NetworkNeighborhood" (one word because the 'constants' in policy editor examples seem to use such notation such as MyDocuments MyPictures etc), but it didnt work as expected so I wrote here to ask opinions from smarter people than I am.

Anyway I have given up and stick to TweakUI and registry hacking.
But Microsoft has written a crap admin tool =D.
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