Customizing public dialogs with group policies in win2003

Group Policy is the primary tool for administrators to define and control programs, network resources, and operating system behavior for users and computers. Various software, computer, and user policies can be set up by using Group Policy. Everyone knows how to manage and configure the settings in various objects, but you know? In Windows XP/2003, we can customize the common public dialogs with Group Policy. Let us explain this magic today. The function.

Specific steps:

Step 1 In Windows XP/2003, click "Start → Run", and enter "ldped; ;, press Enter to open “ group policy & rdquo; editor.

Step 2 In the "Group Policy" editor window, click "User Configuration & Rarr; Administrative Templates & Rarr; Windows Components & Rarr; Windows Explorer & Rarr; Universal Open File Dialog" At this point, you can see a “Items displayed in the location bar” in the window on the right, as shown in Figure 1.

Step 3 Double-click this option to bring up the Properties dialog box. As shown in Figure 2, under the “Settings” tab, select the radio button in front of the “Enabled” option. “The displayed position">;Item 1”,“Item 2” and other text boxes have been activated. These 5 items represent the list of items displayed from top to bottom in the “Location Bar”. .

Step 4 In the text box after the five items, enter the folder that you frequently visit or the drive letter path, you can DIY the button on the public dialog box. Note: The content entered here must conform to certain rules, otherwise the quick positioning button will become an empty link and will not allow you to quickly locate. The input can be: (1) a shortcut to a local folder (eg, C:\\Windows); (2) a shortcut to a remote folder (such as \\server\\share, which for those who frequently share files over a local area network) (3) Common shell folders, such as Common Documents, Common Music, Common Pictures, Desktop, My Computer, My Documents, My Favorites, My Music, My NetworkPlaces, My Pictures, Printers, Program Files , Recent.
Figure 1 "Items displayed in the location bar"Options

After step 5 is set, click the “Apply” button to close the “Properties" window. Ok, no need to restart the system, the settings will take effect, open a dialog box to try it out, see if this is more convenient.

Tip: Careful friends may have noticed that there are 3 options in addition to the “Items displayed in the location bar” in the window on the right side of Figure 1. What are their uses? Double click <; hide the location bar of the public dialog box, then select “ Enabled”, you can hide the display of 5 items in the dialog box; double-click “ hide the previous step in the public dialog box, then select “Enabled”, you can hide the “upper level” button in the dialog box; double-click “hide the recently accessed folder>; then select “enabled”, you can hide the dialog box The "Recently accessed folder" folder has a drop-down list box. In addition, if one day you want the dialog box to change back to the original default settings, you can directly select the radio button in the "Allow" or "Unconfigured" option in Figure 2, and then click “OK> ; button can be.

In fact, not only in windows xp/2003, we can also DIY public dialogs in windows 98. There are more magical effects on group strategy in this website, you can come to this website to learn and communicate.