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saunders - 23 Feb. 2003 - 23:06:

Editing 'Show Desktop.scf'

As mentioned on the site in the Enhance the Taskbar/QuickLaunch section you can open this file in Notepad and change the icon. But what I've been wondering, is can you edit this file to do different commands?
It's very simple to read:
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3

[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

But what I wonder is can you change the number in the [Shell]\Command or the [Taskbar]\Command, and what can you change them to?
I fooled around with it once for a while, changing "ToggleDesktop" into all manners of command names I could think up, but nothing worked.

Has anybody else ever tried this?

23 Feb. 2003 - 23:40 Blackmage

From what I figure, the 'Command' tag is pointing to some kind of explorer command that's telling it has something to do with the taskbar, and the 'taskbar' command is to do the taskbar command. I remember a GeoShell plugin that had all of the various taskbar window commands in a little bar, and I'm pretty sure the names of the commands are there in the reg values it creates.

This is interesting to run other sorts of commands from little shortcuts, though.

24 Feb. 2003 - 00:22 plastic

Yeah, interesting stuff, but where to find some info... not at MSDN. It's called a SHCmdFile in HKCR, and I've only seen 3 of these with a working function (one other opening explorer, one to show channels). Is this whole idea abandoned by MS (viruses disguising as such because of superhidden extension) ? It showed up with 98, never could get any info then, nor can I now...

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