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From: Larry Serflaten on 30 Apr 2010 22:03 "Tony Toews [MVP]" <ttoews(a)telusplanet.net> wrote > Hmmmm, and if it's a user created MDB file my VB6 exe could just turn > around and start up Access agonist the MDB. > > Interesting idea. What about the taskbar info? eg, tasks, jumplist, et al. If your one program is associated with many documents, won't they all show the same MRU as opposed to the different apps that were being pinned.... ??? LFS
From: Karl E. Peterson on 30 Apr 2010 21:00 Tony Toews [MVP] wrote: > Karl E. Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote: > >> This would actually be right up there on the "Interesting!" scale... > > Whoa on a sec here. I haven't checked those URLs yet but <plaintive, > whining voice> don't forget about my problem. Hehehe Okay, let's toss the man a fish... <g> C:\Users\(User-Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar Looks like you might be able to twiddle those LNK files to point at your launcher, assuming you had admin privs. So much for the "wisdom" of Microsoft putting those settings offlimits, huh? -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 30 Apr 2010 22:41 Karl E. Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote: >>> This would actually be right up there on the "Interesting!" scale... >> >> Whoa on a sec here. I haven't checked those URLs yet but <plaintive, >> whining voice> don't forget about my problem. Hehehe > >Okay, let's toss the man a fish... <g> > >C:\Users\(User-Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick >Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar > >Looks like you might be able to twiddle those LNK files to point at >your launcher, assuming you had admin privs. > >So much for the "wisdom" of Microsoft putting those settings offlimits, >huh? Holy cr*p. No, the user or my app won't have admin privileges but still might not be too hard to work around. Thanks muchly Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: Mayayana on 30 Apr 2010 23:32 -- | | C:\Users\(User-Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick | Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar | That's interesting. I'd noticed that Quick Launch shortcuts weren't working in Win7, but I hadn't bothered to update my installer. (I have a checkbox to allow for that option.) I wonder if the All Users version of that path would work as a place to put a LNK during install?
From: C. Kevin Provance on 1 May 2010 15:52
"Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote in message news:Oox96mM6KHA.4508(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... : Okay, let's toss the man a fish... <g> : : C:\Users\(User-Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick : Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar : : Looks like you might be able to twiddle those LNK files to point at : your launcher, assuming you had admin privs. : : So much for the "wisdom" of Microsoft putting those settings offlimits, : huh? Based on everything I've read regarding this issue, merely dropping a file, lnk or otherwise in that folder will not accomplish the desired result. Apparently, it's only one piece part of a much larger puzzle. Chen posted at some point the exact same thing. There are APIs that deal with the whole "pinning" feature that are under lock and key, specifically for the reason MSFT doesn't want abuse of the feature, like quicklaunch. I would have looked into it deeper, but I no longer have a working copy of Win7. <eg> |