Creating personalized IE browsers with Visual C #

IE is now the most used Windows platform browser, but Microsoft provides the IE is so simple, so that no features, then how to use the program to modify IE, to create their own characteristics of IE? I after thinking, through the registry to find a way to modify IE, I would like to introduce you to this method.

First, let's familiarize ourselves with the method and function of modifying the registry in C #. The registry class, RegistryKey class is provided in vc# to implement the operation of the registry. The Registry class encapsulates seven basic keys for the registry:

Registry.classesroot corresponds to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT primary key

Registry.currentuser corresponds to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER primary key

Registry.localmachine corresponds to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE PRIMARY key

Registry.user corresponds to the Hkey_user primary key

Registry.currentconfig corresponds to the Heky_current_config primary key

Registry.dynda corresponds to the Hkey_dyn_data primary key

Registry.PerformanceData corresponds to the Hkey_performance_data primary key

The RegistryKey class encapsulates basic operations on the registry, including read, write, and delete. The main functions read are:

The OpenSubKey (string name) method primarily opens the specified subkey.

The Getsubkeynames () method is to obtain the name of all subkeys below the primary key, and its return value is an array of strings.

The GetValueNames () method is to get all the key names in the current subkey, and its return value is also an array of strings.

The GetValue (string name) method is the key value of the specified key.

The functions that are written are:

The CreateSubKey (string name) method is to add a subkey

The SetValue (string name,string value) method is to set the key value of a key

Deleted functions:

DeleteSubKey () Method: Deletes a specified subkey.

Deletesubkeytree () Method:

This method is to completely delete the specified subkey directory, that is, delete the subkey and all subkeys below the subkey.

Through the registry can modify IE, here I briefly introduce a few commonly used to achieve the changes to IE.

If we want the window that is open to be animated when you turn on or off the IE window, you can open the Hkey_ current_user \ Control panel\ desktop\ windowmetrics key and create a new string in the right window. Minanimat "and" Maxanimat "and set the value of" 0 "for" 1 ", so that the maximum of IE window to minimize the transition effect.

If we change to IE toolbar to add a background then expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\toolbar key value, the Explorer primary key under the new one named " Backbitmap, and modifies its value to the full path and filename of the prepared BMP picture, so that we have completed the purpose of adding a background image for IE's toolbar.