Care to take this challenge?

[DarkPhoenix]

Hi folks..

Recently I thought of a really useful thing I want Windows to do. I searched all over the net and lots of windows 7 forums for advice and software and no one can figure out a way to do this thing.

I just want one simple thing. I want a folder to display it's contents in it's right click context menu.

Lets say I have a folder full of shortcuts.. why open the folder in a new window if I don't have to.. if all I want to do is run a shortcut?

I want to simply be able to hover over or right click on the folder and run my shortcut from there.

For something that I would think is such a simple and useful thing, I have been told this is either very hard to do or next to impossible.

I would envision any shortcut or anything being dropped into the folder to show up in the folders right click contect menu.

I am just learning VB so I don't want to try to make his myself.. I either want a windows trick to do this or software.. doesn't matter.. but I have need for such a function.

I thought why not ask the VB programmers about it.. since this may be the kind of thing you guys would know about.

Any ideas?

[mendhak]

What if there are 3800 files in the folder?

[Nightwalker83]

You mean like having the shortcuts in the menu that appears when you clik the right mouse button?

[gep13]

Hey,

Would this question not be best asked here:

http://www.vbforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=13

Gary

[DarkPhoenix]

Morning Folks,

mendhak said. " What if there are 3800 files in the folder? "

You have a point.. I think there would be no need to have it show every file, but I think shortcuts, various document file types and executables would be fine since those are the things one would be most likely to want to open quickly... Perhaps with a limit of 100 or after so many it would scroll like the start menu.
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Nightwalker83 said, " You mean like having the shortcuts in the menu that appears when you clik the right mouse button? "

Exactly like that.
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gep13 said, "Hey, Would this question not be best asked here: http://www.vbforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=13"

Well I posted it here because I was looking to pick the brains of you guys for info on either a windows trick or software to do this.... I do not know how hard something like this is/would be so I was not going to actually ask anyone to try to do this as a project.
If anyone does want to try to make an App like this I would certainly not object and sing their praises.. but I wasn't gonna ask.

The "challenge" in the title was simply because it's a challenge to figure out how to do something like this with a windows trick or to find a software solution.. I honestly did not think anyone would try to make an app from scratch.

That being said.. Do you folks think I really should submit this as a project?

[gep13]

Hey,

There are certainly ways of extending the entries in the Windows Context Menu:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/context_folders.htm

Gary

[DarkPhoenix]

Hey,

There are certainly ways of extending the entries in the Windows Context Menu:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/context_folders.htm

Gary
I have seen that article. Except for ShellExView that deals mostly with removing unwanted context menu entries. Otherwise the article does not spell out clearly how to do what I need with the registry hacks.

I have looked at ShellExView and that may be able to do what I want but I have a copy and can't seem to figure out if it will do what I want exactly. It mostly deals with display of DLL's. I am waiting on an email reply from the company who wrote the software.

[kleinma]

I would imagine it to be annoying and slow. Everytime you right click a folder, this shell extension would have to scan the folder for shortcuts and build a context menu based on what it finds. That means with every single right click of a folder, windows is going to have to iterate over the file system in that folder.

If you are really just looking for a better way to organize shortcuts, I would look at something like object dock.

[RobDog888]

Thread Moved

[DarkPhoenix]

Thread Moved

You should Not have moved my thread until I deemed the idea something I actually wanted as a project request. I had not made up my mind about that yet. (Read the above)

Also had I chosen to make this an actual request for a project, I would have worded it differently.

Your correct course of action would have been to contact me in PM and ask me how I felt about you moving my thread.

As it was, it was not off topic in the forum that it was in. No need for you to have moved it in the first place.

It's here now, let it stay I suppose.

I may have gotten around to submitting it anyway. I'm just chewing you out on general principle. And besides.. it's my Birthday. I can do that! LOL

[Nightwalker83]

You should Not have moved my thread until I deemed the idea something I actually wanted as a project request. I had not made up my mind about that yet. (Read the above)


RobDog888 moved the thread because the chit chat section is not for programing for technical discussions of this type. Also, if you post it in chit-chat you are more likely to get a thread full of spam rather than useful replies.