If you're worried about mucking up your system, you can take solace in the fact that PlacesBar Editor has a defaults button that will restore things to normal with the click of a button (two buttons, actually. You have to click defaults, and then save).
PlacesBar Editor also lets you add 5 additional folders or locations to the MS Office open/save dialog.
[via Lifehacker and Freeware Genius]
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6-30-2008 @ 12:34AM
brad said...
at least with vista, you can drag and drop the stuff in the places bar (now called favorite links). That's progress(ish) heh
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6-30-2008 @ 6:32AM
pandaslist said...
can't even start me on vista...hate the new windows and cannot think that the most powerful company on earth has made the mistake to release such a horrific product...
Thanks to:
http://www.themostpowerfulcompany.com
to let Google kill Microsoft in the race of the most powerful company
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6-30-2008 @ 6:02PM
Mysterius said...
Your attempt to spam every blog, whether Gawker or AOL owned, is epic fail.
Pandering to prejudice will only hasten your decline.
6-30-2008 @ 6:33AM
Lee Mathews said...
It's a nice app...Though gpedit.msc does a pretty decent job of it as well! The truly hardcore can also do it in the registry - my writeup here!
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6-29-2008 @ 11:42PM
Lee Mathews said...
oh wow. http://www.unsightful.com/2008/06/21/tweak-windows-xp-winxp-places-bar/
It's late, I'm tired.
6-30-2008 @ 6:34AM
alienvenom said...
Uh, you can do this with TweakUI (for XP) on Vista!
Make sure you run TweakUI in Windows XP compatibility mode though... (Right Click -> Properties)
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6-30-2008 @ 6:02PM
Mysterius said...
This is built in on Vista... ?
Don't need any other apps. ;)
6-30-2008 @ 6:10PM
Mysterius said...
Ah, unless it's like Melloware describes below... in which case, good find!
Though I actually don't see any "places" at all when I try saving in Notepad++.
I wish Microsoft would update its Powertoys for Vista already. :(
6-30-2008 @ 7:10AM
Rocketboy said...
Not a very drastic change, is it? Either way, a thumbs-down to software that the 'default' is everything is the desktop, and not microsoft's defaults, and a HUGE thumbs-down to sofware that tries to take you to a donation page every time you run it.
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6-30-2008 @ 9:03AM
Melloware said...
thanks for the post here. I am the author of PlacesBar editor and just wanted to say a few things.
1. Yes you can edit the registry with regedit or any other app but you have to admit a lot of users out there wouldn't know the registry from the Recycle Bin.
2. I work at a company that GASP still uses Windows 2000 and Office XP. So for those of you that say "Oh Vista does this already" you have to admit a TON of users out there on Windows 2000 and XP still.
3. The new Vista features only work for applications that know to use the new Open/Save As. So while Notepad does, Photoshop CS3 and Notepad ++ still use the old dialog that PlacesBar Editor allows you to customize. You would be surprised how many older applications do not display the new Vista style open/Save As especially awesome applications like Notepad++ and UltraEdit. I find it very convenient to have my often used places there.
4. For the user complaining about the defaults, the reason they are defaulted to Desktop is because there ARE NO defaults. In windows you get the defaults if there are no registry entries present, so when you click revert to defaults I essentially erase your registry entries and leave it blank so it goes to the Windows defaults which are code in Windows. Give a try and see it for yourself.
Thanks for everyone's time and compliments!
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6-30-2008 @ 10:07AM
Rocketboy said...
(My comment never showed up, so forgive me if it's a double-post)
What happened is that after I installed it, made some changes, I realized that it wasn't what I was looking for. So I set it back to defaults, and which made all of the shortcuts revert to my Desktop.
I can even send you pictures if you do not believe me.
6-30-2008 @ 10:56AM
boardtc said...
I used to use http://dm2.sourceforge.net/ to access favourite folders from the open/save but of late have found http://www.codesector.com/directfolders.php a cleaner solution.
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6-30-2008 @ 1:34PM
Robert said...
Me too. directfolders is a lovely app
6-30-2008 @ 10:56AM
boardtc said...
I used to use http://dm2.sourceforge.net/ to access favourite folders from the open/save but of late have found http://www.codesector.com/directfolders.php a cleaner solution.
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