KILL THE PLACES BAR written by: paranoidxe email: paranoidtsi@hotmail.com The places bar is the bar placed on the left side on every save/open dialog you get within Windows XP. If you would prefer to revert back to the Windows 98 style of open/save dialog boxes do the following: - click start, run.. - type in regedit, click ok - go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ - create a new key under Policies named "Comdlg32" - in the comdlg32 key, create a new dword value named "NoPlacesBar", give it the value of 1 - close regedit Changes should be effective immediately.