Ok this should be easy enough for someone to make. I picture a GUI with checkboxes for various Windows settings that a portableapps user might want changed. You would check the settings you want. When the app starts it would backup the hosts settings for these items and apply the "portable" ones, on exit it would restore the host.
My first settings ideas are...
- Hide Desktop Icons
- Autohide Taskbar
- On Top for Taskbar
- Show Hidden Files
- Show/Hide Extensions
Everyone feel free to suggest more settings ideas.
[bump deleted by moderator JTH. no bumping, please. (PS - yes moderators are supposed to note when they delete a bump like this)]
[second bump deleted by moderator PP - yes, that's you dragonmage]
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That's a great idea. I hate it when I sit down at someone's computer and they have it set for the default Icons/Thumbnails view, hiding extensions and interesting files.
I know, I know, someone will say You should use Foo OSS File Explorer Portable instead!
-hea
seen at http://www.freelists.org/archives/regtips/04-2004/msg00000.html
This script shows and hides the desktop.
rem ShowHide.vbs (save as)
rem First, make sure you manually create the NoDesktop dword value in the
rem registry for this to work(the script looks for the value and if it doesn't
rem exist, an error will result):
rem HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoDesktop
Dim WSHShell, n, p, itemtype
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
p = "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoDesktop"
itemtype = "REG_DWORD"
n = WSHShell.RegRead (p)
If n = 0 Then
WshShell.RegWrite p, 1, itemtype
End If
If n = 1 Then
WshShell.Regwrite p, 0, itemtype
End If
Set WshShell = Nothing
For Each Process in GetObject("winmgmts:"). _
ExecQuery ("select * from Win32_Process where name='explorer.exe'")
Process.terminate(0)
Next
How about
Start menu view (Standard / Classic)
Details view in Explorer (how I loathe "icons" view!)
Folders view in Explorer versus "Tasks" sidebar
Screen resolution
( I would add "DPI" setting, but you need admin rights to change that on my work pc, don't know if that is universal)
Ok, I had another idea about this. This is not a bump
If there are settings that can't be applied due to user or system restrictions, it should suppress individual messages for each setting, and just display one message that says "The following settings could not be applied"
was clearly a bump, luckily Kevin also replied, but please dont do it again.
I think this is an excellent idea. I've always hated it to go to someone's computer and find that they have extensions disabled, etc.
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