change default locations in Open / Save As Dialog boxes

The Places bar locations in a Common Dialog (Open/Save As) boxes can be customized to your choice of folders. To do so, try the following methods:


Image showing customised "Places bar" on the left:



Using TweakUI is the easiest method to add/remove places in the Open/Save As dialog. Download TweakUI from here: v2.00 for XP | v2.10 for XP/XP SP1

For some reason, the first text box in Tweak UI does not accept lengthy paths as shown:

pre view of HTM and HTML files as thumbnails in Windows XP Home

There is no straight forward way to enable preview for HTM and HTML files in "Windows Explorer" of "Windows XP Home".

But the winXP home tweek is to copy the following contents to a Notepad document and save as "c:\htm.reg" with quotes.

--- ( Copy from next line ) ---

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile\shellex\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}] @="{EAB841A0-9550-11cf-8C16-00805F1408F3}"

--- ( Till previous line ) ---

Then type c:\htm.reg in Start/Run, to merge the contents.



Addional information from Carrie Grath, MVP will help:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&selm=%233K3YJPZEHA...

Credit: Ramesh, Microsoft MVP, Windows XP Shell/User http://windowsxp.mvps.org/