STFU && RTFM

In my last post, I showed you how to use the GPEdit app to change the default Save As/Open locations. There’s another way to do this, using that great little tool called TweakUI.
 
If you haven’t gotten it already, download and install it before reading on.
 Here’s how to make the tweak:
 

• Open TweakUI
• Navigate to the Common Dialogsentry
• Open the entry called “Places Bar”
• Set the settings as you want like so:



• You have a few predefined places, but you can point it to local folders such as c:\example\foldername or even remote computers such as \\remote.computer.network.net\folder

I’ve been annoyed that I’ve not been able to change the default Save As/Open locations, as well as changing the 5 options I get on the Places Bar. Here’s what it looks like default:
 

 
Now, there are two ways of changing this, this first one uses the GPEdit or Group Policy Editor app which you might remember from my post on branding Internet Explorer. Here’s how we go about changing it:
 

• In the start-menu, open “Run”
• Type “gpedit.msc” and hit enter
• In the group policy editor, navigate to:

User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Explorer\Common Open File Dialog

• Open the entry called Items displayed in Places Bar
• Set the entry to Active, and configure at will

 
Here’s the end product: