Comments on: Get Windows XP Styled Classic All Programs List in Windows Vista and 7

By: Bianca Duvall

Bianca Duvall — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:49:45 +0000

Umm.. now my Windows 7 internet explorer favourites menu has my applications listed ! DOH!.

Lucky I saved my reg entries before i changed them.

Oh well it seemed good, shame it doesnt work

By: Thorsten Albrecht

Thorsten Albrecht — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:51 +0000

Instead of replying "^^ Please check the NOTE section given at the end." you should mention that anybody who uses this workaround will loose his Internet Explorer Favorites. This solution for the classic start menu is only a workaround if anybody won't use his IE anymore.

Thorsten

By: VG

VG — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:05:35 +0000

^^ Please check the NOTE section given at the end.

By: Arlen

Arlen — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:13:09 +0000

It worked very nicely.... It was great until I tried to save a website in my Internet Browser and discovered that my programs were there instead of My Favorites and it would not allow me to save a websit to it. Now I have another problem. How can I fix it?

By: AL Fischer

AL Fischer — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:17:08 +0000

VERY GOOD! Now, how can we ADD a Program entry instead of replacing FAVORITES with it?

By: AL Fischer

AL Fischer — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:17:06 +0000

VERY GOOD! Now, how can we ADD a Program entry instead of replacing FAVORITES with it?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:38:36 +0000

Hi Vishal,
I took you advise and made changes to the My Video link in the registry. However I dont see the changes as I saw in modifying the Favorites entry. Any Ideas what links work and what links dont. Thanks for your help.

By: VG

VG — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:07:49 +0000

^^ Please check Point 4.

By: paul shuckett

paul shuckett — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:10:04 +0000

thanks. I restored favorites back into internet explorer. Now another problem As part of the downloaded script, I believe you included suppression of the all programs line in the startup by using the dword vlue NoStartMenuMorePrograms and set its value to 1. I cant find this using the find feature in regedit. Where is it located so I can delete it. Thanks again for your help

By: VG

VG — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:22:22 +0000

^^ Open regedit and goto following keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

In right-side pane, change value of "Favorites" to:

%USERPROFILE%\Favorites