A quick lesson in the way the windows namespace works.
First, we're going to need to use regedit. You know about regedit right? Just go to 'Run...' (Hit the windows keys and 'R' at the same time), type in regedit and hit 'OK'.
Regedit allows you to edit the system registry. The registry is a database of system meta-information like program configuration settings.
You need to navigate the tree-view to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID
Once you're there, hit Crtl-F to get the find dialog. Set it up like this:
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Then click 'OK'.
You should find a match pretty quick. The serach will match "shell folders" such as "my computer" and "dialup networking".
Find one you'd like to play with (use F3 to find the next one) and take choose "Copy Key Name" fdrom the "Edit" menu.
Now open up notepad (or even better,
noted ) and paste. now, recopy the part of the text inbetween the { and } symbols (including those symbols). This is a big random string in windows called a GUID (Globally Unique IDentifier), and this one specifically is a CLSID (CLaSs IDentifier).
Create a new folder and name it "bob.CLSID" where CLSID is your copied CLSID. eg, if you were doing "my computer", your folder would be called "bob.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"
Done renaming? Look what has happened. I wont spoil the suprise by explaining how or why. maybe later.
Just a thought
[ August 01, 2001: Message edited by: cal ]
[ August 01, 2001: Message edited by: cal ]
