Pinned Program list

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Jerold Schulman

Does anyone know of any command-line utility to add and delete items to the
Windows XP / Windows Server 2003 Pinned Program list on the Start menu?

The items are stored at:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage\Favorites
annd
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage\FavoritesResolve

as REG_BINARY data types.



Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
 
Jerold Schulman said:
Does anyone know of any command-line utility to add and delete items to the
Windows XP / Windows Server 2003 Pinned Program list on the Start menu?
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MSDN describes cmd-line version if PIN/UNPIN:

Pin (Command Line)
Pins a specific version of a file in the current project.
Syntax
ss Pin VSS items [-G] [-H] [-N] [-V] [-W] [-Y] [-?]

Couldn't you prepare the registry key by hand
and then use REG.EXE for batch import/export?

See http://www.jsiinc.com/suba/tip0300/rh0319.htm
for REG.EXE info ;=)

Bye,
v
Sr.
 
Jerold Schulman said:
Does anyone know of any command-line utility to add and delete items to the
Windows XP / Windows Server 2003 Pinned Program list on the Start menu?
Click to expand...

MSDN describes cmd-line version if PIN/UNPIN:

Pin (Command Line)
Pins a specific version of a file in the current project.
Syntax
ss Pin VSS items [-G] [-H] [-N] [-V] [-W] [-Y] [-?]

Couldn't you prepare the registry key by hand
and then use REG.EXE for batch import/export?

See http://www.jsiinc.com/suba/tip0300/rh0319.htm
for REG.EXE info ;=)

Bye,
v
Sr.
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The command you describe is for Visual SoftSafe and NOT for explorer pinning.

The problem isn't editing the registry, it is interpretting the systax of the
entries so that I could edit it.



Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
 
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