[RESOLVED] Open Containing Folder

[agmorgan]

Im using WinXP Pro at home and at work.
My context menus for all shortcuts at work have "Open Containing Folder" (like you normally see in the search results)

However, I don't have this option at home.

I wouldn't put it past myself tweaking the system at work, but I can't remember what I did.

Anyone know how to add "Open Containing Folder" to the right-click menu of all shortcuts?

[gigemboy]

Do you mean right clicking a file, and opening the command prompt for the folder that the file resides in??? If so, try this (pulled from here)

1. Click start; click run; type regedit; press enter. You have just opened the registry editor, if you are not familiar with it, it manages, in raw form, most of the settings in windows

2. Click the + next to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

3. Click the + next to the folder named " * " (it should be the first one), if you're interested, this particular item deals with things to have in the right click menu of ALL files (not folders)

4. if a subfolder called "shell" does not exist, right click on the " * " folder and choose "add new key" and add a folder named "shell"

5. right click on shell and click "add new key" here type "Open Containing Folder" or whatever option you wish to appear

6. right click on the folder "Open Containing Folder" and again add a new key, calling this one "command"(it must be exactly "command")

7. Left click on command, and in the main pane of regedit, right click "(default)" and choose Modify

8. What to type here is different depending on if you use NT based systems or windows 95/98. If you use Widnows 95/98, type "command". If you use NT systems, type "cmd"

9. Congratulations, you should now be able to open the containing folder of any file in DOSSHELL, by right clicking on it

[agmorgan]

Thanks for that.
It opens a DOS Shell with the path to the folder.

I was hoping to open the actual folder itself though.
Maybe a bit of messing around with this might help.

[iPrank]

I searched, but didn't found any tool.

If you don't mind making your own tool, this code may help you.

[agmorgan]

Thanks for that. I'm still checking it out.

That would have to be run on startup though wouldn't it?
I'm sure this was just a registry hack though.

[agmorgan]

Cor!
How long did this take me!!
Here is the hack courtesy of this old newsgroup post.
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mic...3cef25ccffa5df
Basically what gigemboy said above but with a different command value.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open Containing Folder\command]
@="explorer.exe /e,/select,%1"

[iPrank]

I'm using WinXP SP2. Explorer keeps crashing on this twik.

[agmorgan]

Really?
I'm using WinXP SP2 here and at work too and it works fine.

Is it just my tweak that causes the crash or gigemboy's as well?

[iPrank]

gigemboy's twik working well. Infact, I use it all the time.

In case of your explorer twik, no problem with normal files.

If I select a 'normal' file on desktop, it opens my "User Profile\Desktop" folder in explorer and selects the file. OK.

But, if I select a 'shortcut', it opens the folder and highlights the file, but right after that explorer crashes.

[iPrank]

I think it is a problem in my Windows installation. I use Windows 2000/XP Explorer filename extension column shell addin. But today, when I used it, it crashed too.

I need to reinstall my Windows.