4th time, not the charm

In message , "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
writes:
In message , Paul
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

I've now removed the four standard Libraries (Documents, Music,
Pictures, and Videos), so I have "Libraries" under "Desktop" in
Explorer (just above "Homegroup"), with nothing in it. Ah, I
can't shift-delete it, and right-clicking has no Delete. (I
can't non-shift delete it either.)
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So, just another bit of clutter.

There's a way to change their visibility, if it's the
clutter that bothers you.


https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...-folder-add-re

navigation-pane.html

Paul
Thanks. I've done that, and will tell you if it has gone next
time I reboot.

I have, and it has indeed disappeared.

I still find it irritating that we have to get these arcane hex
strings from tipsites - I presume _they_ get them from leaks, as
I'm sure they can't just find them.

:-) That's what it probably says in the "program requirements"
section of the document they design to. "Use arcane hex strings
to program feature". They're likely just undocumented bit strings,
with a "boolean per field" kind of thing. If you set the value
to all-zero, Explorer "disappears into a singularity".

Paul
I didn't mean the hex value that we have to set - I understand bit
flags (though it's good that someone has worked out at least one of
the bits!); I meant the {argle-bargle-itsy-bitsy} string we have to
get inside to _get_ at the value we want to change. I could _just
about_ accept this sort of obfuscation where it involves commercial
software providers hiding where they put their anti-piracy
measures/flags/whatever, but I see _no_ justification for the
settings for Windows itself:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}\ShellFolde
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using such strings.

Agreed. That part of it is a bit too clever.

"A CLSID is a globally unique identifier that identifies a COM
class object"
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It could be globally unique and still human-readable. It doesn't need
to be a long hex string enclosed in curly brackets - one of thousands
such.
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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