TUTORIAL: How to use the free space under RUN in New Windows XP Start Menu!

Vishal Gupta · 08-05-2006, 11:19 PM

Guys!
Did u ever noticed that free space under the Run menuitem in New Windows XP Start Menu?
The following tutorial give u the way to use that free space for ur own shortcut, e.g., u can create a shortcut for Windows Media Player in that free space, as I hv done in my tutorial

How to use the free space under RUN in New Windows XP Start Menu

In the above tutorial the things, which I hv posted in BOLD may be changed for other shortcuts. Like u can change the name to some other if u want!
The "Default Icon" is the path of the icon file, which u want to display in the Start menu shortcut. (NOTE: Double slashes r compulsory).
Similarly, the "Param1" in "Instance\InitPropertyBag" is the path of the executable file, to which u want to create the shortcut. (Here also the Double slashes r compulsory!).

demoninside9 · 10-05-2006, 10:34 PM

thanx.................yaar
its very good stuff

anandk · 11-05-2006, 07:32 AM

i m gonna try this .....................

aku · 11-05-2006, 09:53 AM

yeah man... nice stuff...

aryayush · 14-05-2006, 07:18 PM

A screenshot of my start menu is attached with the post. Where is the space below 'Run'?

P.S. - Sorry for having to extract the file to see it but my original JPEG file exceeded the forums upload limitations (which is VERY low)!

ashisharya · 06-06-2006, 11:12 AM

cool post man...keep up the good work

samrulez · 06-06-2006, 08:11 PM

Nice...reg..tweak....
Keep it up!!

qarch · 20-06-2006, 01:09 PM

Very nice! Now how do I change it so as to enable me to start another appln of my choice? Will changing just the bold portions to my app work? Or more of other applns?

casanova · 20-06-2006, 01:45 PM

Cool tweak. Applied it but haven't logged of yet.
Can u help out with replacing those unncessary icons like "Help and support", serach, set program acees and defaults, printers and faxes.
I hope we can do these.

Vishal Gupta · 24-06-2006, 03:09 PM

Open gpedit.msc and go to:

User Configurations -> Administrative Templates -> Start Menu and Taskbar

and in right-side pane, u can disable the items which u want.

speedyguy · 24-06-2006, 03:47 PM

some usefull stuff dude...thanx for those

cheers

casanova · 24-06-2006, 03:58 PM

And then how to use that recovered space??

Vishal Gupta · 24-06-2006, 04:09 PM

U can only add one extra application as I hv mentioned in this thread.
If u disable some items in start menu and see extra space, u can reduce the no. of recent items (default is 6) to remove that extra space .

ashfame · 24-06-2006, 09:36 PM

lets we do it for wmp & then we want it to be some other shortcut so changing the paths & then carrying on the whole process will edit the previous shortcut naa.
And what if i wanna remove it.

Vishal Gupta · 25-06-2006, 11:07 PM

YES!
If u change the entries (given in BOLD latters in the first post), it'll change the shortcut.
And to remove it, simply delete the whole key "{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}" in registry!

ashfame · 27-06-2006, 04:44 PM

thanks, repped u.

Vishal Gupta · 02-07-2006, 11:42 PM

thnx buddy!

Also saw ur siggy.

iceeeeman · 19-01-2007, 03:11 PM

Dude I Want To Put A Winamp Shortcut Instead Of Windows Player So For Tht Which All Changes Ill Have To Make, I Hv Changed The Directry But Its Not Workin!!!!!!!it Comes Winamp.exe Does Not Exits???

Vishal Gupta · 19-01-2007, 04:54 PM

As I already mentioned in first post, u'll hv to change entries in BOLD letters.

For Winamp, if its EXE is placed in following directory:

%ProgramFiles%\Winamp

then the required code will be:

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}]
@="Winamp"
"InfoTip"="Winamp"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\DefaultIcon]
@="%SystemRoot%\\system32\\SHELL32.dll,168"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\
64,00,6f,00,63,00,76,00,77,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Instance]
"CLSID"="{3f454f0e-42ae-4d7c-8ea3-328250d6e272}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Instance\InitPropertyBag]
"CLSID"="{13709620-C279-11CE-A49E-444553540000}"
"method"="ShellExecute"
"Command"="Winamp"
"Param1"="%ProgramFiles%\\Winamp\\winamp.exe"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\shellex\MayChangeDefaultMenu]
@=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=dword:00000000