MisterXiado
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Living from the past.
Posts: 7
OS: Win 3.11, Win95, Win98, Win7, Win10
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Post by MisterXiado on Jun 2, 2020 16:04:05 GMT -8
So far, I've gotten to the point where I can get the icons added in the appropriate places ( My Computer, Explorer side navigation panel), but I have yet to determine exactly which registry data is needed to make Windows treat these items like links to a directory. Replicating registry information partly from Control Panel, Printers, and Dial-Up Networking has gotten me to the point where it looks correct, and the menus are correct, but opening the location doesn't work at all, and choosing Explore just makes Windows whine about an htt file I have yet to create. "Pictures" is installed just fine.  The context menu is configured properly.  But Open does nothing, and Explore 404s as expected without a page layout htt file.  There is no information online that I can find, regarding adding new items to My Computer, least of all something as simple as directory links. As there is nothing similar in Win9X that I can find, I'm not sure if using the registry of WinXP would help. I don't have any systems suitable for Windows XP right now, as the one that is suitable needs new capacitors, otherwise I'd look there immediately. |
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Post by anixx on Jun 2, 2020 17:43:00 GMT -8
Are you sure it is Windows 95? It has a quick launch bar but Win95 had not it by default unless you installed an extension which was coming with a new IE. Also, on Win 95 there was no Windows flag on the explorer windows.
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MisterXiado
New Member
Living from the past.
Posts: 7
OS: Win 3.11, Win95, Win98, Win7, Win10
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Post by MisterXiado on Jun 2, 2020 18:43:33 GMT -8
IE 4 and up add additional functionality to the Windows shell. This is Windows 95C (OEM Service Release 2.5) with Internet Explorer 5 installed. None of what I'm trying to do now, couldn't be done in the initial launch version Win95.
I've added the ID {B3690E58-E961-423B-B687-386EBFD83239} (ID for "My Pictures" in later versions of Windows), set its folder to C:\Pictures (directory in this installation created for it), configured its DefaultIcon, InProcServer32, and ShellFolder settings to some degree, as well as adding its ID and reference to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\mycomputer\nameSpace
The inscrutable binary value attached to "Attributes" may be the hurdle, but I don't have access to a newer version of Windows' registry to look for similarities to emulate or decode. Windows seems to want me to make an htt file for its display, while in Explore mode, but simply opening it to a location like any other directory is said not to require this. I am aware that the opposite direction is where most people seem to want to go, bringing older UI elements to newer iterations of Windows, but this seems to be an unexplored area that isn't an impossibility.
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Post by powerplayer on Jun 3, 2020 12:06:19 GMT -8
IE 4 and up add additional functionality to the Windows shell. This is Windows 95C (OEM Service Release 2.5) with Internet Explorer 5 installed. None of what I'm trying to do now, couldn't be done in the initial launch version Win95. maybe you shouldn't install ie4 in the first place it adds overactive desktop which makes your system more hackable and u could get malware easier due to them exploiting the active desktop system . Just stick to the original shell and do your mods there because ie4 makes the file explorer become like web explorer microsoft removed that crap long ago. |
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MisterXiado
New Member
Living from the past.
Posts: 7
OS: Win 3.11, Win95, Win98, Win7, Win10
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Post by MisterXiado on Jun 3, 2020 14:30:01 GMT -8
Who is going to hack an OFFLINE Pentium computer that is only used to play CDs and MIDIs? This is completely irrelevant.
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Post by powerplayer on Jun 3, 2020 15:21:37 GMT -8
Who is going to hack an OFFLINE Pentium computer that is only used to play CDs and MIDIs? This is completely irrelevant. If u look hard enough there is an abandonware program called 98lite it can bring u back the old clean win95 interface without reinstalling. |
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MisterXiado
New Member
Living from the past.
Posts: 7
OS: Win 3.11, Win95, Win98, Win7, Win10
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Post by MisterXiado on Jun 3, 2020 15:35:45 GMT -8
I now regret thinking I could get useful feedback here, and I shall take this regret to my grave.
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Post by Spitfire_x86 on Jun 4, 2020 6:33:02 GMT -8
I remember an old program called Windows 95 Configurator that could, among other functions, add any files and folders to My Computer on Win95/98. Sadly I can't find it anywhere.
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Post by The Jackal on Jun 4, 2020 8:00:40 GMT -8
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Post by powerplayer on Jun 4, 2020 15:05:55 GMT -8
I remember using that back in the day  great program |
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Post by midi_score on Jan 5, 2021 5:55:16 GMT -8
MisterXiado, i know this is a bit off-topic, but what icons are you using? can't find them anywhere.
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Post by The Jackal on Jan 5, 2021 8:56:07 GMT -8
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Post by midi_score on Jan 5, 2021 11:59:34 GMT -8
the site was down for me while writing that, thanks anyway! |
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Post by travis on Jan 5, 2021 13:34:04 GMT -8
the site was down for me while writing that, thanks anyway! Seems the site is up now. |
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great program
