How to Display Background Image for Explorer Toolbars

Actually this is a very simple tutorial to display background images for explorer toolbars. It might not a high profile trick, yet still you’d love the fun part. Scroll below to know how its done.

1. First navigate to ‘ HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar

2. Now create a new String Value by right-clicking in the right hand pane and selecting New > String

3. Name it “BackBitmapShell”.

4. Double-click on it and enter the path of the image you want to use as background image.

Note: Make sure the image that you gono insert is in .bmp format(bitmap).

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1
Sunit
December 27th, 2007 at 10:49 pm

hm.. nice.. and fun. LIked it..
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PC
December 27th, 2007 at 11:10 pm

I always love to tweak the registry.

I also wrote many posts on this topic.

Good post..!!
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Pranjal
December 28th, 2007 at 12:30 am

thanks really appreciate it.
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kilyn
January 16th, 2008 at 4:23 am

pleasue hurry
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kilyn
January 16th, 2008 at 4:24 am

please hurry
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