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The Places Bar works great for me. Thanks for the tip!
Doug
>-----Original Message-----
>| "Doug" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
>| wrote in message news:85b001c47828$4fa7abb0
$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>| I would like to change the default location for Browse
in
>| the Run window. Windows 2000 always remembered the last
>| run location folder but XP always defaults to My
>| Documents. How can I change the location?
>
>AFAIK that setting is hard-coded and cannot by changed
from:
>
>%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%.
>
>-- One option that might be an acceptable workaround:
>
>Since it uses the Explorer-style Common Dialog Box with
a Places
>Bar you could customize the Places Bar, (the vertical
button bar
>at the left-hand side in the dialog box). Then all you
would
>have to do is click a "button" to open the desired
folder. Note
>that the Common Dialog Box is a systemwide resource. As
such,
>customizations will affect all applications that use it,
such as
>Notepad, Paint, Internet Explorer, etc.
>
>There are a numerous methods you can use to customize the
>Places Bar...
>
>- For a manual method to customize the Places Bar by
editing the
>Registry see the following Web Page:
>
>Windows & .NET Magazine
>August 2001 | Dino Esposito | Scripting Solutions
>Instant Doc #21539
>Customize the Places Bar
>http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?
ArticleID=21539
>
>- If this is your home computer, a Windows XP
Professional
>stand-alone computer that you administer, then you could
run the
>Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc), locate the following
policy and
>configure the Places Bar as desired:
>
>Local Computer Policy\User Configuration\Administrative
>Templates\Windows Components\Windows Explorer\
>Common Open File Dialog: Items displayed in Places Bar
>
>About Group Policies, keep in mind that for a Windows XP
>Professional stand-alone computer, only one local Group
Policy
>object exists. As such, every policy set using the
Group Policy
>console will effect every
>user of the computer, including the built-in
Administrator.
>
>For more information about Group Policies and a Windows
XP
>Professional stand-alone computer search the Windows XP
>Professional Help and Support Center for "Client
operating
>systems" (with the quotes) and read the "Note" in the
Full-text
>Search Match by that title.
>
>- If you have TweakUI installed, you can use it to
configure the
>Places Bar. For more information, and a graphic of the
TweakUI
>setting, see the following Web Page (which also includes
>information on Registry settings for the PlacesBar):
>
>Microsoft Learning
>Sample Chapter from Microsoft® Windows XP® Registry Guide
>By Jerry Honeycutt
>http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/6232.asp#
122
>
>-- Another option that might be an acceptable workaround:
>
>If you are like me and millions of others who do not
actually use
>My Documents to store documents. But who do have
numerous other
>folders for information storage...
>
>You could use "My Documents" as a container for
shortcuts to the
>folders that you frequently use. Then, when My
Documents pops up
>like it does when you click Start | Run | Browse... and
all those
>other times, all you have to do is double-click the
shortcut to
>the desired folder.
>
>.
>
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