Question for ROM cooks - possible to change system folders?

[Donny Bahama]

Advanced Config has a section for setting new values for "My Documents", "My Ringtones", etc. but many of them don't actually work.

I'd love to be able to use "\Donny" instead of "\My Documents", etc.
Call it irrational, but I *HATE* the Windows defaults of "My [whatever]". I always change them (via the registry) on my desktop/laptop PCs, and it drives me nuts that I can't do it in WM.

So, is it possible during the ROM cooking process to make such changes? Or are they simply hard-coded into the WM OS.

If they're hard-coded, is it in a single DLL? (That I could maybe hack with a hex editor?)

[Da_G]

These are all variables that you can control at the time of cooking, by editing various .rgu's in the system folder. Look to the folders with Lang or 0409 (or your regional code) in the name, as these are the language-localization strings.. all folder names are considered language-localized as "My Documents" is obviously different in each language :)

Use a text editor that supports unicode such as EmEditor to edit these .rgu's.

Hope it helps!

[Donny Bahama]

That's AWESOME! I've been looking for a reason to start cooking... now I have one!

One follow-up question, if I may...
Instead of hard-coding the values, can you tell it to look in the registry (so the "Shell" entries actually work)?

Thanks for the reply!

[Da_G]

The .rgu's represent the registry as it's compiled by the ROM kitchen, so editing the .rgu's will have the same effect as editing the registry.

[Donny Bahama]

The .rgu's represent the registry as it's compiled by the ROM kitchen, so editing the .rgu's will have the same effect as editing the registry.Not sure if you're missing my point or if I'm not understanding you.

If the .rgu's represent the registry as it's compiled then the locations for My Documents, Program Files, etc. would all be hard coded in the ROM, and once again, changing the settings in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\Shell Folders won't actually do anything. Right?

So, I'm asking if there's a way to put some sort of magic pointer (or maybe leave it blank?) to say, "If you want to know the location of 'My Documents', check the registry settings at HKCU\....\Shell Folders"