I received the follow tip in a techrepublic W2K newsletter but after following the instructions it did not work. Can someone verify the info.
Thanks
Bob
Modify the Places Bar, part 2
The Places Bar appears at the left of the Open dialog boxgenerated by the ComDlg32.dll library. The Places Bar includes icons for the History, Desktop, My Documents, My Computer, and My Network Places folders, making it easy to open documents in these common folders.
The Places Bar can contain up to five icons. The registry values that reference these icons and their associated folders are named Place0 through Place4. Adding your own folders to the Places Bar is, therefore, a relatively simple matter of creating these five entries in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Policies\ComDlg32\Placesbar key.
You can reference folders either by their absolute path string or the system ID for the folder. Using the string is best for folders that don’t change location based on current logon and for nonsystem folders.
To add a folder, open the Registry Editor and open the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Policies\ComDlg32\Placesbar key. Right-click in the right pane and choose New | String Value. Name the value Place0 and set its value to the path to the desired folder. For example, you might enter C:\Docs\Personal to add that folder to your Places Bar.
To add a system folder to the Places Bar, right-click in the right pane and choose New | DWORD Value. Set the name to Place1 and set the value to the ID for the folder.
Repeat the steps to add values for Place2 through Place4. Open a standard Windows 2000 accessory application, choose File | Open, and verify that your folders are correct. You can adjust or correct values as needed.