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Changing defaults

I have the following problems for which I would welcome your help:

  • In Windows media player, whenever I click on the Open command to open a file, it shows the names of files that I recently opened. Please let me know how I should clear the Open bar in mediaplayer.

  • Whenever I open the Explorer window, the default view for the folders or files is a `list view';

    Even after I changed it to detail view, the problem persists. Please let me know how I can set the detail view as the default view.

  • How can I install Dos-key as default in Dos?

  • I want `Click' as the default display button in my task bar start menu, instead of the `Start' button. How do I go about doing this? Please suggest solutions to these queries.

    Md Anwar

  • To clear the entries in the file list dropdown in the media player, please open the registry editor by clicking on start -{gt} Run and type in regedit. In the regedit editor, please go to the following location: Hkey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer

    \Player\RecentURLList and Hkey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\

    MediaPlayer\Player\FileList.

    Once you are here, you will have a list of the recent files accessed through media player. Please delete whatever entries you don't want and close regedit.

  • To make a view or folder setup as default, please do the following: First setup the folder as you need, like in your case, set it as detail view and then go to tools -{gt} folder options.

    In the dialog box that opens, please select the view tab and then click on the `Like current tab' button. This will become the default view of all the folders.

  • For installing Doskey at start up, please open the Autoexec.bat file which you will find in the root partition, usually C:\, and scroll to the bottom of the file and just type in Doskey and save the file. If the file isn't there, you can create an Autoexec.bat file and then do the above.

  • For changing the start menu text, you can download a freeware `Resource Hacker' from the following URL: http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/.

    The utility can be used to modify most of your system resources, including changing icons, dialog box settings, bitmaps, menus and, of course, the start button also. It works across all windows platforms.

    You will have a zip file to download; please download the file and extract the contents to a folder.

    Run the Reshacker.exe. Go to file menu. Click on open and open your explorer.exe, which you will find usually in c:\winnt or c:\windows.

    To change the "start" menu, please double click the `String Table' node on the left panel and select sub-folder 38, then 1033, then edit string 595 in quotes to whatever you like.

    In XP skinned mode, please select the sub-folder 37, then 1033, then edit string 578. Click on "Compile Script", then select the file menu and click on `Save As' and save the file as explorer.new.

    It is a good idea to take a back-up of the explorer.exe as explorer.bak before doing the save.

    Now please delete the original explorer.exe and rename the explorer.new file you created to explorer.exe. In Win9X, you can restart the system in Dos mode and do the renaming, in case of Win 2000 and WinXP. If you have a dual boot system, you can do it from the other OS if it supports the same file system.

    Solutions by G. Rajah

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