If you run up the win2k reskit, it sets up this nice screen. Something like this:
You will notice the last icon here is a non-standard one: support tools. This group contains the support tools, "directly copied" from the start menu. Unfortunately, chasing it down is a tale of spaghetti ini-files.
The actual folder opened is c:\fenster\Resource Kit Pro, where %windir% is c:\fenster. This is an empty folder, but contains a hidden file 'desktop.ini'. In turn, desktop.ini points to a CLSID={7E085FB5-D0EF-11D2-8E15-0000216659E4}. This hides in registry, so we head off there. This tells us that the default handler for it is rkadmin.dll, and little else.
Searching for "Resource Kit" in registry, brings us to the real ini. It is in
LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Reskit\NameSpace\Windows 2000 Pro Resource Kit :
Of course, this is not where the individual groups are. They're hiding in a different file: c:\fenster\tools\rkpro.ini. This is the directory where both the support tools and the reskit is installed. When you get into this file, it's a pretty straight forward layout, as
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[Categories]
name=
Column=Name,,
Column=Description,Desc,256
category=folder name
[folder name]
ColumnInfo=category
icon=%installdir%\iconmame.
tool = Tool Name
[Tool Name]
Path=%installdir%\tool.exe
Desc=Dorky tool
Help=%installdir%\helpfile.chm::120
Arguments=/?
So you add a new category called 'support', fill out the [Support] with all of the names of the odds and ends, and then create a tool section for each name you add. All done? Nah. It's progman, through the registry, so you have to add a new registry key
Installed16=Support Tools
Now it works.
