TUTORIAL: How to enable "VIEW" Menu on Desktop !

[Vishal Gupta]

Guys!

I always wondered why "VIEW" menu is not displayed on desktop, its displayed in each folder but not on desktop. I wanted to enable it on desktop so that I can set the desktop icons view, like Thumbnails, Small Icons, List, etc. Thats why yesterday I was playing with Shell32.dll file in Resource Hacker and found a way to enable it on desktop too after 2 hours r&d. :D

So here we go:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/8118/newpicturevn3.jpg



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(http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-view-menu-on-desktop-in-windows-xp/)

[Pathik]

kool man...thx

[ax3]

thx ....

[rajatheking]

Thnx man....
But one prob the Views button gets deactivated after that.

[Vishal Gupta]

Yeah!
Me too checked it.
I thought that it was due to some other hacks, I made. :D

[aditya.shevade]

Great man!

[NagpurDaMunda]

thanks

[aqeel_phool]

Excellent work this has to be admired a lot of times

[Lucky_star]

Hey Vishal,
Have you drank every drop of these Shell32.dll and other
such files, that u know every nook and corner of it?

Great man, Great.


One ques. to ask you:
How many times have you replaced ur shell32.dll file till now?

[Vishal Gupta]

lol, thnx a lot buddy for ur appreciations :D
As I hv already said many times, playing with resource hacker and registry are my favorite timepasses ;)
So many times, playing with them gives such interesting results :)

[NIGHTMARE]

u r genhttp://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/images/icons/icon3.gifs

[blackpearl]

Cool!!

One question: what does the no 28674 signify and how does changing it to 0 enable the view option?

[Ron]

thanks man.........
Great Doing!!!!!!!!!!

[shankar_ganesh]

screenshots please

[Vishal Gupta]

@blackpearl
The ID is hardcoded in the windows shell and it was programmed in such way that windows will not show "View" option on desktop, and changing it to 0 removes the restriction and windows is unable to hide this option on desktop :D

@shankar_ganesh
Here u go buddy: :D

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/8118/newpicturevn3.jpg

First Post also edited to add the screenshot...

[kirtan]

Thanx Vishal.I haven't got words to describe your computing Knowledge.

[shankar_ganesh]

@vishal:
thanx for the screenshot.
but i hv a problem: i am unable to save the file. reshack says: "cannot create file: c:\windows\system32\shell32.dll"
any solutions

[Tech Geek]

@vishal:
thanx for the screenshot.
but i hv a problem: i am unable to save the file. reshack says: "cannot create file: c:\windows\system32\shell32.dll"
any solutions
save the file with the same name and place it somewhere else(preferabally desktop) then replace the original one withthe saved one.

[Vishal Gupta]

@kirtan
thnx buddy :)

@shankar_ganesh
Its happening bcoz of WFP service, either disable it using WFP patcher or just save the file at some other location and use Replacer to replace original file with ur hacked one ;)

[NIGHTMARE]

vishal i applied the vista VG on computer it work but when i restart my computer the theme is disable and 1 more thing when i open the display properties>>appearances there is no preview of theme.

[sun_rane007]

I Think You Change View Menu for menu bar of Windows Explorer
:cool::cool::cool:
Whatever I Change It View Menu Doesn't Work :confused::confused:

So Change To Default value it work fine :-):-)

[sun_rane007]

I Try following changes :D :D
1)Copy

{
POPUP "&View", 28674, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED, 0
.................................................. ......................
.................................................. ........................ }
at before itself

2) Change 28674 to 0 and also changes other numbers of other lines
(range some like 3XXX {X = No.like 274}) :confused:
3) This able able VIEW Menu on Desktop :cool:
But without working function :(

I try to able unsuccessfully
Please helpppp

[Vishal Gupta]

^^
Buddy, u hv to only replace 28674 to 0 in "&View" line. Thats it.

[deepak.krishnan]

Vishal, this is the best tut that I have ever tried out......thanks for all the tweaks
__________
@vishal:
thanx for the screenshot.
but i hv a problem: i am unable to save the file. reshack says: "cannot create file: c:\windows\system32\shell32.dll"
any solutions

Hi Vishal
I too had this problem and I tried out Tech Geek's tip....Well to say I got an error saying some dll's could not be loaded.....(I think msgina.dll and some others including services.exe or some thing like that.)
I tried to reboot with MS XP CD. But it failed to do so and then I tried using Vista DVD which too failed.... Then the dynebolic 1.1 CD came into use for the first time ever since I got it with Digit. I had to rename the shell32's backup to shell32.dll.......
why was I unable to boot using the XP CD ( I tried every thing in BIOS including boot sequence preferences)

[Crazy Kidd]

Cooooooooooooooooooooooool. Don't have any other word.

[Vishal Gupta]

^^
Thnx buddy for ur kind words. :)

[jasneh]

I dont know what happen. Its cannot save.
Massage appear:
"Cannot create file C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll"
Need help
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/images/icons/icon5.gif

[Manvendu Das]

Hey,Thanks a lot.It was a great trick and I loved it and everyone will like.Once again Thanks for providing such a nice trick

[Vishal Gupta]

^^ thnx. ;)

@jasneh
hv u disabled WFP service? If not, then download WFP patcher from following thread and run it in Safe mode. Also make sure that a file with name "shell32_original.dll" doesnt exist in System32 folder. :)

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30897

[Third Eye]

i don't understand:confused:.it is already activated in my case.

[Vishal Gupta]

Its for enabling "View" menu on Desktop in Windows XP. ;)