tschroeder250
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- Windows 11 Pro 22H2 OS build 22621.4317
Hello all. I am currently running Win11 Pro 22621.4317.
I am writing an app (WPF) and I would like to display a file tree that is visually as close to File Explorer as possible. To that end, I would like to detect which Special Folders are enabled (i.e. visible) in File Explorer.
For this post I am focusing on Gallery, but I am hoping to be able to use the same code for the other Special Folders as well. I found Brink's excellent post on enabling and disabling the Gallery (link) but I don't think that I can reuse the concepts I found there.
Before making any registry edits, Gallery was visible on my system, and I found the following instances of {e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c} in the registry (along with what I thought may be important KVPs):
Does anyone know how to accurately detect whether Gallery is visible or not?
Todd
I am writing an app (WPF) and I would like to display a file tree that is visually as close to File Explorer as possible. To that end, I would like to detect which Special Folders are enabled (i.e. visible) in File Explorer.
For this post I am focusing on Gallery, but I am hoping to be able to use the same code for the other Special Folders as well. I found Brink's excellent post on enabling and disabling the Gallery (link) but I don't think that I can reuse the concepts I found there.
Before making any registry edits, Gallery was visible on my system, and I found the following instances of {e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c} in the registry (along with what I thought may be important KVPs):
- Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c}
- System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree = 1
- SortOrderIndex = 65
- Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c}
- System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree = 1
- SortOrderIndex = 65
- Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c}
- System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree = 1
- SortOrderIndex = 65
- Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c}
- System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree = 1
- SortOrderIndex = 65
- Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c}
- (Default) = {e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c}
- Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel
- {e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c} = 1
- Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c}
- System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree = 1
- SortOrderIndex = 65
- Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c}
- (Default) = {e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c}
- Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel
- {e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c} = 1
Does anyone know how to accurately detect whether Gallery is visible or not?
Todd
- Windows Build/Version
- Win11 Pro 22621.4317
My Computer
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- OS
- Windows 11 Pro 22H2 OS build 22621.4317
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