Enhanced Right Click, Vista like context menu addition Options

[Tweak]

I searched awhile and looked at some apps and how they worked and fiddled with the registry and discovered part of what I wanted and eventually found someone else had worked toward the same goal, in the end I found a way to right click a shortcut and from the context menu open the files location, like Vista offers, I use it often, many may not. I have used this on Win XP Pro x64 and it should work fine with Home and Pro 32 bit also, might with 2000, may need some modification though. Hope someone finds this as useful as I do almost daily.


It is a simple registry entry, no overhead from an unneeded application, it is inside a .rar which of course can be opened with WinRAR. If however you would like to simply create it yourself just copy and save the text below as a .reg file and then merge with your registry, no reboot needed, it will appear in your right click context menu right away.

Download below or create your own

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Open File Location]
@="&Open File Location"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Open File Location\command]
@="\"explorer.exe\" /select,\"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open File Location]
@="&Open File Location"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open File Location\command]
@="\"explorer.exe\" /select,\"%1\""

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This post has been edited by Tweak: Jul 3 2007, 10:25 PM

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