Classic Desktop Without Installing Desktop Experience?

[hoak]

Is there any easy way to get a classic Windows Server 2003, and Windows 7 desktop hard-link icons that also offer Explorer right-click context functionality for ‘Computer‘ and ‘Network‘ etc. without installing Desktop Experience?

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[Arris]

I believe you can enable/disable the various icons using the .reg file below where 0x00000001 represents the icon is invisible and 0x00000000 represents a visible icon.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00



[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerHideDesktopIconsNewStartPanel]

"{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000

"{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}"=dword:00000000

"{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}"=dword:00000001

"{5399E694-6CE5-4D6C-8FCE-1D8870FDCBA0}"=dword:00000001

"{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000000

You can lookup the classid’s in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID.

Didn’t test it, but by looking at the Process Monitor output and refreshing the registry after applying the settings, this should be the location in the registry.

Good luck! 🙂

[Anonymous]

I believe you can enable/disable the various icons using the .reg file below where 0x00000001 represents the icon is invisible and 0x00000000 represents a visible icon.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00



[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerHideDesktopIconsNewStartPanel]

"{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000

"{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}"=dword:00000000

"{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}"=dword:00000001

"{5399E694-6CE5-4D6C-8FCE-1D8870FDCBA0}"=dword:00000001

"{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000000

You can lookup the classid’s in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID.

Didn’t test it, but by looking at the Process Monitor output and refreshing the registry after applying the settings, this should be the location in the registry.

Good luck! 🙂

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