{"id":4551,"date":"2017-12-30T23:58:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T23:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2017-12-31T00:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T00:00:53","slug":"beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/30\/beyond-good-ol-run-key-part-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond good ol\u2019 Run key, Part 70"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in early 2000s shell extensions and desktop enhancers were very popular. Some of these ideas survived till today and even now one can either use pre-installed ones, or install new deskbands on the system.<\/p>\n

There are many coders who already did a great job explaining what desk bands are and how to implement them, so instead of pretending that I know what I am talking about, I will just suggest that you read this great article ‘Shell Extensibility – Explorer Desk Band, Tray Notification Icon et al.<\/a>‘ by Alex Blekhman. When you run the Calendar.exe that is attached to the article you will then have an option to make the calendar present as a Deskband<\/p>\n

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Interestingly enough, as far as I can tell Autoruns still doesn’t detect them.<\/p>\n

To find out where the information about deskbands and other Explorer extension bars is stored in Registry you can read this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you are in a hurry, just need to enumerate Registry and look for all CLSIDs with the Implemented Categories\\ key with the following deskband identifiers set:<\/p>\n

DeskBand\r\n{00021492-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\r\n\r\nVerticalBand \r\n{00021493-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\r\n\r\nHorizontalBand \r\n{00021494-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}<\/pre>\n
e.g.:<\/p>\n
HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\CLSID\\...\\<\/pre>\n
Implemented Categories\\{00021492-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}<\/pre>\n
Additionally, it may be worth checking the following key:<\/p>\n
HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\\r\nDiscardable\\PostSetup\\Component Categories\\...\\Enum<\/pre>\n
This is where Explorer stores cached information about explorer bar objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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