Start Menu User Folder Buttons - Open to Users Instead of Libraries

Hello Peter,

Sorry, but no. The .reg files in this tutorial will only affect the buttons in the Start Menu.

I've never had the "Open" and "Save" type dialogs reliably open to the last location they were closed at.

Brink said:

Sorry, but no. The .reg files in this tutorial will only affect the buttons in the Start Menu.

Thanks for that information Brink. :)

Brink said:

I've never had the "Open" and "Save" type dialogs reliably open to the last location they were closed at.

I meant that the "Open" and "Save" dialogue windows still open in the Libraries (usually "Documents") even though they have been removed from the Navigation pane.

I assume that the Windows Explorer hack (e.g. open in "Computer") doesn't change this either?

Ah, ok. Step 9 in the tutorial below would only remove Libraries from the navigation pane in those dialogs. It wouldn't prevent it from opening or manually navigating to libraries though.

Libraries Folder - Add or Remove from Navigation Pane

Changing what explorer opens to would only affect that shortcut of explorer.

I suppose that you might see if using the tutorial below to set the places bar to have what you want instead may help for those type of dialogs.

Common File Dialog Box - Customize Places Bar

Thanks again Brink. :)

I'll try out that tutorial.

You're welcome. Hopefully it help as a workaround.

Hwalker1 said:

Thanks for that. I never investigated these buttons until today, and have had win7 since day 1.
Many people that I know including me, have great difficulty using the filing system, as it never puts things where they expect it to put them. You tell it to save a download to your downloads directory and it does not do so. Which is why my browser list of every download I have (and that's a lot), has never been cleared. Its the only way that I can find them.

Some browsers let you specify the folder you want "Downloads" to be saved in.

For example:

• Firefox
• Pale Moon
• Maxthon 3 (it's hidden in an obscure location though)
• Chrome
• Opera 12 &16

shadow33 said:

Those registry files don't work. The default start menu registry tweaks work. But the user start menu registry files are corrupt. Or mixed up. Especially the music and the video buttons. When I applied them I lost my music button. And all of a sudden a "Documents and Settings" button showed up in the start menu. Please could you checked them out. I hate the Windows 7 library folders ideal.

Hello Shadow33, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Did you by chance move or make changes to the location of your user folders before?

User Folders - Change Default Location

If so, you should restore their default locations first.

User Folders - Restore Default Location