[THIN] Re: W2K3 - My Computer Icon

  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:27:30 -0500

ah! even better..

just replace the entire HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT 
\CLSID{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\LocalizedString value with 
"%username% on %computername%"

forget all the MUICache stuff. This is simpler.

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Reese 
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:09 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [THIN] W2K3 - My Computer Icon


I think I am zeroing in on it for Windows 2003.

So far I have only found it on a user by user basis.  The localized string in 
the old key is already a REG_EXPAND_SZ.  If you replace the -9216 with the 
value in the tool tip key, the name changes tot the tool tip text.  So it -9216 
is associate with "My Computer"

in the HK_USERS key, find the user and then find the 
\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache

find the @C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll,-9216 key.  It is a REG_SZ and has a 
value of "My Computer".  delete it.  It will recreate itself if you botch the 
replacement.  At least it did for me.  I am on a test server so I don't care if 
it gets trashed.

Recreate it as a expandable string exactly as it appeared before.  It is case 
sensitive.  Set the value to "%username% on %computername%" without the quotes. 
 Have that user press f5 to refresh the desktop and you should be good to go.  
If you have roaming profiles, that should follow the user around.

I am going to dig around and see if I can find a HKLM key for these string 
values. It may be lurking around somewhere else.  I guess you could also do 
this with the default user key as well.  

Greg



-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Erik Blom
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 5:42 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] W2K3 - My Computer Icon


I know this has been discussed many a time, and I tried all settings I
could find, but renaming the my computer icon to %username% on
%computername% doesn't seem to work on Windows server 2003.

Here's how I tried:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID

Add a key (folder icon) with name {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

Then in W2K I could create a new value (REG_EXPAND_SZ) with no name and
with %username% on %computername% as data. In W2K3 however I cannot create
a new value with no name, and using (Default) as a name doesn't cut it.

Am I missing something?

Erik
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