Some friends think that the method of DIYing public dialog boxes through the registry is more troublesome, and some public shell file folders cannot be used (public shell folders refer to folders that come with the system, such as my documents, my music, my pictures, etc.). After careful research, the author finally found a better way to directly use the public shell file folder without having to define the two registry keys.
Step 1: Click "Start → Run", type "REGEDIT" and press Enter, open the Registry Editor, expand the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies] branch in turn.
Step 2: Right-click "Policies", select "New → Primary Key" (in Windows 98) or "New → Item" (in Windows 2000/XP/2003), and name the item "comdlg32".
Step 3: Right-click on "comdlg32", create a new primary key or item, and name it "PlacesBar".
Step 4: Enter the "PlacesBar" branch, and then create several new DWORD values in the window on the right, named "Place0, Place1...Place9". These 10 DWORD values correspond to the quick positioning buttons in the system's public dialog box (generally 5, and up to 10 quick positioning buttons can be customized when using small icons). The numerical data of these 10 DWORD values can be defined as any positive integer from 0 to 28, and the corresponding relationship is as follows:
0——Desktop; 1—Internet Explorer; 2—[Program] under the [Start] menu; 3—Control panel; 4—Print and Fax; 5—My Documents; 6—Favorites; 7—Start; 8—My recent documents; 9—Send to; 10—My Music; 11—My Computer; 12—Online Neighbors; 13—NetHood; 14—Font folder; 15—Templates folder; 16—Start menu; 20—Temporary Internet Files folder; 21—Cookies folder; 22—History folder; 23—Application Data folder; 24—Windows folder; 25—Windows\System32 folder; 26—Program Files folder; 27—My pictures; 28—User configuration folder.
However, this method can only change the public dialog boxes of non-Office programs such as Notepad, Drawing, and WMP, and cannot change the public dialog boxes in Office programs.