I want all my desktop shortcuts point to drive:\sources\... whereas the letter is not the prob. I would like to see the subset of my port Apps stored at the same point as when I connect the ext....

THX Shawn, I used mountvol and diskpart in my script above. But that is not the solution :-(

I have a minimum set of port progs always available which I have on a built partition/folder like d:\sources\progA.

When I connect my ext. drive it would be great if this could be automounted to...

Hi to all,
I have lot of portable tools and data on my external drive which I use with my work and home PC. Both PCs have one built in drive with a C and D partition.
My desktop shortcurts point...

Thank you all ... it would be great if you have some more hints for me here:
mount/unmount external drive instead of internal drive automatically

Hi to all, hi Shawn,

below please find the .bat I want to call from a desktop shortcut from a nonAdmin account without UAC prompt.

I tried to run it with "C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe...

Hello @all... it is about
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps
and its subfolders like
Fitbit.Fitbit_2.44.1997.0_x64__6mqt6hf9g46tw

1 I had troubles deinstalling junk apps. So I changed the owner of...

Hello, can you tell us roughly the logic behind
"PromotedIconCache"
"IconStreams"
"PastIconsStream"

Hi shawn, would it work to import those 2 keys into another (new) users ntuser.dat ?
I checked the keys from my and the new account susi where I enabled the icons via settings.

The diff looks...

It tried to set it to e.g. 10 and even negative values, but still can read all Labels. It seems there is a Minimum that cant be passed.

Sorry my bad. It works !!!
I created the user profile more often for test purposes and so the path to the ntuser.dat was different.

I load the 2 hives from susi from my admin account and import the .reg (but also tried to change them with regedit) and unload the hives.

...
set "reg_classes=HKEY_USERS\_%%u_class" &...

Hi Shawn, glad that you are still around helping us for so many years !!!

I tried to inject the reg keys into another users ntuser.dat, by mounting it under HKU:...

THX, I will check the idea with the scheduler

Can you please give me help regarding the parsing ... I am a newby on those things ;-)

THX to all of you !!! (C: is my disk 0 and has the w10 partition on it)


select disk 1
assign letter=e
select disk 2
assign letter=d
select volume 1
assign mount=c:\MountPoints\Vol1
exit

I have a SSD for C: and internal Drive D:

I would like to create 2 batch files that I start manually.

How to:
1. If I connect my external drive I want the internal drive become E: and the...

the way from 1st page has to be done for every user on the pc. It is easier to put the following under LocalMachine:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
insert...