Re: Moving desktop and Programs folders

See if this helps:
http://geekswithblogs.net/BruceEitman/archive/2008/06/04/platform-builder--managing-the-registry.aspx
or:
http://geekswithblogs.net/BruceEitman/archive/2008/06/20/platform-builder-fmerge-tips-and-tricks.aspx

Without researching your specific case, I don't know what the issues are, or
what your specific concerns are. But:

1. You can change your project.reg or your platform.reg, no need to change
the public folders
2. You can change your own str file to set the localization strings.

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"Talbot" <Talbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:928CDE98-1C82-481C-9063-B426C185D917@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am working on PB5. I am considering how to install/deploy software
updates
for our users. Our OS uses a RAM/ROM FS but our device does power off
often.
Therefor, I loose everything which is not in the OS nk.bin, BUT if I put
all
of our software in NK.bin, I get a large image which takes over a minute
to
boot. I'd like to have a lean NK.bin and load our software into our
\\Mounted Volume\\ flash storage. CAB installers seem like a good way to
install our software, except that if I install desktop or start menu
links,
they are lost on power-cycle. I found
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Explorer\Shell Folders] and thought I could
override the two paths in my project.reg. This leads to the questions:
a) Sure, this would let me move where the OS looks for desktop/start menu
items, but it won't help me change where apps install too. For example,
wordpad and media player icons are forced into \\Windows\LOC_DESKTOP_DIR,
etc. Obviosuly I could change the public source but that doesn't feel
right.
Is there a trick here, or am I way off in what I'm attempting?
b) If I ever want to localize my OS, I'm stuck cause I just hardcoded the
paths. I can't figure out how to combine the LOC_PATH_* definitions with
the
\\Mounted Volume path because of the quotes in LOC_PATH_*. Is there a way
to
override the root path but keep localized names?




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