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Create a new folder on your desktop... rename it, call it
"Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
Now is should look like the normal Control Panel icon you see in My Computer (not a shortcut). Now do a right click on start (taskbar), click on open. Move the new folder we just created to the start menu folder. Close the start menu folder. Now when you click on start, you should see control panel on it... click on it and it will expand and show all the items! You can do the same with the printers folder and dial-up networking...here are names that you need to name your folders..
Dial Up Network
Dial Up Net.{992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48}
Printers
Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
If you're browsing through folder windows, it's usually nicest to have Windows 95 set so that it uses a single window that changes when you open a new folder. However, if you want to copy or move files around, it's nice to be able to quickly open a separate window for a folder.
This can be done by holding "CTRL" as you double-click, but it would be nice to have this option on the right-click menu, next to "Open" and "Explore".
To add this to the menu, you need to change the registry a bit. Run the Registry Editor and find the entry for "Directory" under the "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" branch.
Under, "Directory", you'll find "Default Icon", "shell", and
"shellex". The one we want is "shell."
Under "shell", add a new key called "opennew". Modify its (Default) value to say "Open New &Window". Then, add another key under "opennew". Call this one "command", and set its (Default) value to "explorer %1".
And that should do it. One side effect is that "Open New Window" now also appears when you right-click on the Start Button, which is completely pointless because it does that anyway. Oh well. |