Max Norris Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 Just for giggles I set up a Windows XP virtual machine, mostly for some old retro gaming that just doesn't run well anymore on current setups. Came across a screenshot of an old old old build from almost 20 years ago and I used to use a shell extension that replaced XP Explorer's sidebar with one that I could add custom bookmarks to. I more or less found all my old stuff (themes, tweaks etc) but for the life of me I cannot remember the name of this thing. Any old timers remember what this is? I mean it's stupid and totally unnecessary for a virtual machine, I can feel it's on the tip of my tongue but my stupid brain won't give it up and now I'm taking it personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick H. Supervisor Posted June 28 Supervisor Share Posted June 28 I don't know for certain since I never used it, but taking a quick look around it looks like TweakUI was able to do something similar. I also found the following instructions instead of using TweakUI: Quote First go to the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg32\PlacesBar and then you will see five DWORD values, They are Places0 to Places4. Their values can be: Desktop - 0x00 Network Neighborhood - 0x12 Favorites - 0x06 History - 0x22 My Documents - 0x05 My Pictures - 0x27 My Music - 0x0D Recent Documents - 0x08 My Computer - 0x11 I don't know if either options are what you did before, though. Max Norris and goretsky 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted June 28 Administrators Share Posted June 28 I am pretty sure that could be edited with a shell.xml (of sorts) in the C:\Windows folder but yeah, it was over 20 years ago 😛 Such a thing might even be here in this forum section if you can search for the right keywords. goretsky and Max Norris 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astral Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 Possibly LiteStep? goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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