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move the mouse around to discover the UI like in a <atarget="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tentacle">Lucas Arts
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adventure game</a>. And finally the keyboard usability is awful. To
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tell it
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<spanstyle="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">“yes, I know what I’m doing, I want to overwrite all files”</span> you have to
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press <strong><spanstyle="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Alt+D, up, up, up, Space</span></strong>! It is harder than performing the <atarget="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AErqKebdqjU&feature=fvw">Akuma
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<spanstyle="font-weight: bold; color: #2b88d8;">“yes, I know what I’m doing, I want to overwrite all files”</span> you have to
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press <strong><spanstyle="color: #2b88d8;">Alt+D, up, up, up, Space</span></strong>! It is harder than performing the <atarget="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AErqKebdqjU&feature=fvw">Akuma
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Kara Demon move</a> in Street Fighter 3. There is a time and a place
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for
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that stuff and copying files is not it.</p>
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<p>The Classic Explorer plugin brings back the simpler dialog box from Windows XP:<br>
is immediately clear what is clickable <spanstyle="font-style: italic;">(clue – the buttons at the
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bottom)</span>, there is easy keyboard navigation (press <spanstyle="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Y</span> for “Yes”, <spanstyle="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">A</span> to
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bottom)</span>, there is easy keyboard navigation (press <spanstyle="font-weight: bold; color: #2b88d8;">Y</span> for “Yes”, <spanstyle="font-weight: bold; color: #2b88d8;">A</span> to
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copy all files) and you can still see which file is newer and which is
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larger. And of course just like in Windows XP, holding down <strongstyle="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Shift</strong> while clicking on the No button means "No to All" (or just press <strongstyle="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Shift+N</strong>).<br>
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larger. And of course just like in Windows XP, holding down <strongstyle="color: #2b88d8;">Shift</strong> while clicking on the No button means "No to All" (or just press <strongstyle="color: #2b88d8;">Shift+N</strong>).<br>
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</p>
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<p>If you click
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<p>To solve the problem, the Classic Explorer plugin adds a new toolbar:<br>
<br>The column on the left shows the current buttons in the toolbar,
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and the column on the right lists the buttons you can add to the
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toolbar. You can drag and drop buttons from the right column to the
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<spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">Important Note:</span> Not all available commands have default icons or text. That's because Windows doesn't have icons for things like <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">Undo</span>, <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">Select All</span>, etc. If you want to use such buttons in your toolbar you will have to provide your own icon. See below how to do it.<br>
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<br>
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After you place a button in the toolbar, you can edit it's attributes. Double-click on the button to edit:<br>
Here you can select a command for the button, its text and icon. Press the <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">Restore Defaults</span> button to get the default text and icon for the chosen command.<br>
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The command can be:<br>
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<ul>
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per user and are stored in the registry. By default every user can edit
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all of their settings. An administrator can lock specific settings, so
In this example the setting "Show Up button" is locked to always be
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"Before Back/Forward" and can't be changed by any user. This is achieved
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by adding the setting to the <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OpenShell\ClassicExplorer</span> registry key. Create a string value called "ShowUpButton" and set it to "BeforeBack".<br>
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There is also a global setting <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">EnableSettings</span>. Set it to 0 in the
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registry to prevent the users from even opening the Settings dialog:<br>
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<imgstyle="width: 603px; height: 257px;" alt="Disable all settings" title="Disable all settings" src="images/settings_disable_ex.png"><br>
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<imgstyle="width: 452px;" alt="Disable all settings" title="Disable all settings" src="images/settings_disable_ex.png"><br>
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<br>
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You can enable or disable Classic Explorer for individual processes
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using the 2 registry settings "ProcessWhiteList" and
When you run Internet Explorer for the first time after installing
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Classic IE it may prompt you that a new add-on called ClassicIEBHO is
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Classic IE, it may prompt you that a new add-on called ClassicIEBHO is
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installed and if you want to enable it. Click on the Enable button. If
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you don't get a prompt, go to <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">Tools -> Manage add-ons</span> and make sure ClassicIEBHO is enabled. After enabling the add-on you have to restart Internet Explorer to activate the plugin.<br>
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you don't get a prompt, go to <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">Tools -> Manage add-ons</span> and make sure ClassicIEBHO is enabled. After enabling the add-on, you have to restart Internet Explorer to activate the plugin.<br>
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<h1><aname="settings"></a>Settings</h1>
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You can access the settings from <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">Tools -> Classic IE Settings</span>
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or from the start menu. The settings control the color and the font of
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or from the Start menu. The settings control the color and the font of
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the caption, and what information to display on the status bar.<br>
no user can edit them. This is achieved by adding the setting to the <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OpenShell\ClassicIE</span> registry key.<br>
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<br>
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You may also wish to not lock the setting but only override its initial
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value. Then add "_Default" to the name of the registry value.<br>
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value. Do this by adding "_Default" to the name of the registry value.<br>
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The easiest way to know the registry name of a setting and its value is to modify it, and then look it up in <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\OpenShell\ClassicIE\Settings</span>.<br>
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Sometimes you may want to lock a setting to its default value, but you
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don't know what the default value is. Then create a DWORD value and set
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don't know what the default value is. Do this by creating a DWORD value and setting
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it to 0xDEFA.<br>
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There is also a global setting <spanstyle="font-weight: bold;">EnableSettings</span>. Set it to 0 in the
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registry to prevent the users from even opening the Settings dialog:<br>
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registry to prevent the users from opening the Settings dialog:<br>
Editing the settings through group policies is also supported. Extract the file <b>PolicyDefinitions.zip</b> found in the installation folder and read the document <b>PolicyDefinitions.rtf</b> for more details.<br>
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