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Post New Requests Here / Re: Change Desktop Folder
« on: November 29, 2007, 10:41 AM »
SUperior SU - Desktop Switcher
-PhilB66 (November 26, 2007, 12:47 AM)

its a windows profile changer  :huh:
-psionics (November 29, 2007, 09:03 AM)

Yes it is.
But the functionality of the Desktop Folder Switcher script resembles it very much.
Anyway, I tried it out and think it's overkill. I think it takes too many resource for each "desktop" when comparing to our simple solution.
I still want to try to help developing our script, as I need this myself. I don't have much time for this in December though.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Change Desktop Folder
« on: November 24, 2007, 03:42 PM »
hey thanks perlguy..  :)

 :tellme: im still using fat32 fs for my xp sp2.. but the ahk script didn't work for me(or ... coz of I didn't try the junction.exe from sysinternals yet)..  anyways, the program "ManageDesk" 's  folder switching did work, but not free (meow  :( ) . can we ask them how they did it?
-psionics (November 24, 2007, 02:53 PM)
As far as I know - junctions only works with NTFS.
There is also something called Shell Links. It's a parallel to the SymLinks of Linux - I think. But not completely the same.
Anyway. I tried to create such a Shell Link with the Winbolic Link program, and I think it will work for this purpose (not the Winbolic app but the Shell Link method).
The only problem, is that I haven't found any command line program which creates Shell Links.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Change Desktop Folder
« on: November 24, 2007, 08:43 AM »
Wishing list:
  • Save and restore desktop icon positions (this should be possible somehow, as I have seen other small apps for this).
  • Switch folder for the the quick launch. (will this work?)

I don't know yet what is possible with autohotkey. Would it be possible to control a Virtual Desktop application with a autohotkey application?
This way we could combine this script with a Virtual Desktop application.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Change Desktop Folder
« on: November 24, 2007, 03:48 AM »
Ok, cleaned up, refactored the bits that do all the real work into a function...  In addition to the menu, I set Win+1/2/3/4 as hotkeys as well.  Changed to pickup the user's profile directory from the environment.  Registry is used to remember which desktop is current between sessions, and if restarting the script.
-perlguy (November 24, 2007, 01:45 AM)
Great. Clever enough.

The only thing missing is a routine to do the initial setup... you need to move your current %USERPROFILE%\Desktop to %USERPROFILE%\Desktop1, create %USERPROFILE%\Desktop2 thru 4, and then run junction.exe manually to point Desktop to Desktop1.  I thought it might be best for anyone wanting to use this to understand how junction.exe works, rather than just doing it for them.
-perlguy (November 24, 2007, 01:45 AM)
Why not just have folder called DesktopJunction which could be the Desktop Folder Location and then keep the default Desktop folder.
Also I think that junction part should be automated. An warning could be displayed when starting the app.

For me, having the ini seemed overkill, so I left out those bits.
-perlguy (November 24, 2007, 01:45 AM)
I agree on this.

Wishing list:
Switch folder for the the quick launch. (will this work?)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Change Desktop Folder
« on: November 23, 2007, 01:24 AM »
Rather than use up a drive letter with subst, I chose to use junction.exe (from sysinternals) to delete/create junctions when selecting a new desktop.
-perlguy (November 23, 2007, 12:33 AM)
That requires a NTFS partition right?
I can see that my harddrive is formattet as NTFS. Is this standard today for Windows XP and up?

/Stig

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