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' Name: hack your user's Favorites folde
' r
' Description:This code hacks your user'
' s Favorites folder by manually adding a
' shortcut to your
homepage (or any web page)
' By: Theo Kandiliotis
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' Assumes:This works for both IE and Net
' Scape Navigator,I'm not sure about other
' browsers.The only
limitation is that your user must have English Windows.
'
'This code is copyrighted and has' limited warranties.Please see http://w
' ww.Planet-Source-Code.com/vb/scripts/Sho
' wCode.asp?txtCodeId=905&lngWId;=1'for details.'**************************************
How To hack your user's Favorites folder
The Windows operating system is based On ASCII files.You may open a file that contains Windows settings using Visual Basic's sequential access and alter it's content in the same way it is altered through Windows,the compenent that uses it will never know the difference. For every Favorite page of the Internet Explorer,there is an ASCII file With a URL extention in the Windows\Favorites directory.It looks like this:
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.hostname/folder/filename.htm...
and sometimes it may have an additional third line that changes when the link is modified.The filename of the URL file determines the name of the favorites link in the Favorites dropdown list of IE. Here's the Visual Basic code To "manually" add a favorite page to the user's archive:
Open "C:\WINDOWS\FAVORITES\Theo's VB site.URL" For Output as #1
Write #1,"[InternetShortcut]"
Write #1,"URL=http://www.forthnet.gr/ionikh/home.htm"
Close #1
Tada! Your user just decided that your home page qualifies For his favorites archive ;) You can add this little snippet To any program that you distirbute or have posted on the web so that more and more people will come to agree that you have an outstanding home page that they should visit daily...Ofcourse I have no responsibility for anyone's actions ;) | |
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4/21/1999 6:22:00 PM:thumper
This will fail if the favorites folder
is not located at
c:\windows\favs.
Like an NT user!
It will also not work for Netscape for
Navigator doesnt look into the IE
favorites folder. Nav creates a
bookmark file.
this is garbage.
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5/4/1999 2:09:00 AM:Theo
thank you for your feedback friend.If
you can can up with *garbage* like this
,you too might win some prizes from
Planet Source Code !
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5/7/1999 1:07:00 PM:Robert Mayer
Thanks for the effort Theo, but I must
agree with "thumper" that you cannot
depend on assumptions made about the
path to where the Favorites shortcuts
reside. Even when installing Win95 or
Win98 you can still decide to name your
Windows directory something else.
Also, if you use utilities such as
TweakUI, like I do, you can choose to
locate your Favorites folder on an
entirely different drive than where
your operating system is installed.
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5/27/1999 12:57:00 PM:Julius
I agree with both of you Robert and
thumper. It will be possible to look
for the favorites path, know if you are
using Netscape or IE, etc...
I think
that Theo just wrote an interesting
piece of code: small, quick but not
perfect. It will work for a lot of
users. Windows is most often installed
in the WINDOWS folder, and a lot of
people are using IE.
Now you can
always take his code and write a
'heavy' procedure to detect all the
differents settings.
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6/20/1999 12:25:00 AM:Ryan
I think it's a cool idea, but there's a
way to find out what sort of browser
name the user's got. I thinks you
should use this code in an if statement
to determine what directory the file
goes in, by programming the different
paths within the if statement.
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7/11/1999 10:44:00 PM:Abraham
I need to know how to use animation
with VB or C , Im trying to let the
user click on a button and they go
somewhere else on the next screen. And
my next question is how do you link
forms like click a button and you go to
the next form. thankx for your help bye
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8/1/1999 12:23:00 PM:Greg
The code wont work with everything, but
it will work for around 50 percent of
the users, and that enough for me. So
thank for the code although if you can
improve it- let me know. I make awesome
backrounds for programs visit my site
at http://members.xoom.com/backpaper200
i also improved youre code a little
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8/18/1999 11:54:00 AM:Toad
Hack? This should not be allowed on
this site... I think this code should
be taken down immediately...
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9/15/1999 4:37:00 AM:Daniel
hahaha, hack hey, wow you must be
pretty elite, about a year ago i was
tangled in the hacking scene, i finally
broke lose, and it aint as glamorous as
a few lines of code pal. Why "HACK"
your own PC, its just not ethical. Plus
the sheer act of "HACKING" your
favourites is just plane ridiculas.Get
a life, and some knowledge while your
at it!
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10/1/1999 9:07:00 PM:code-munky
Just look in the registry for where the
favs folder is. duh.
HKEY_CLASSES_CURRENT_USER/software/micro
soft/windows/currentversion/explorer/she
ll folders if i remember correctly,
very simple solution to this prob ;)
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10/18/1999 1:23:00 PM:ToM
haha i was just going to say that
code-munky. i agree totally
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2/15/2000 9:13:41 PM:Coozzzzz
Let me see.. 100+ users rated quite
well for this code.. 6 users dont like
it.. jealousy is very painful isnt it?
maybe oneday when yall avoid being
a$$h0les you will get an award
also.
Well keep up the good work
Theo dont let these few get to you
:))
-Coozzzzz
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5/23/2000 7:05:48 PM:Austin
wow, for all these bad comments, this
source sure did get rated well. Ian,
you might want to check the log to see
if there were any patterns in rating
that might indicate a *cheat* on the
rating system. Personal note: I don't
think the code is bad, it points out a
great idea. It could use some work,
though, like suggested above.
-Austin
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5/20/2001 7:52:31 PM:Harry
dude, it has a 5.5, last time i
checked, 5 was the highest ya could get
to....
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11/15/2001 1:13:34 PM:Yello
How did this get a gold ....
I smell
a rat .
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10/11/2002 3:45:44 PM:GWMorris
I know it's like beating a dead horse,
but this has got to be one of the most
immature bunch of comments I've yet to
read! Sure the idea is OK, but anybody
with half a brain (and who REALLY
programs, for goodness' sake) could not
only figure that out pretty easily, but
could make it work with 99.5% of their
users. The other 0.5% would use Linux
or Mackintrash. I for one am amazed
that this nonsense is still on here,
three years old! Fact is, most of us
ARE mature enough not to do something
like this in the first place, n'est-ce
pas? Oh, and the one who is asking VB
questions like this was a help line or
something.. what's that all about?
Besides, if you seriously don't know
how to open a form through code, you
don't need to be driving a VB compiler
anyway.
Cheers, kiddies..
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