[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

Copy all lines below, less this line:

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\""

Copy all lines above, less this line.

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

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[JokerFMJ]

The .reg method doesn't seem to work.

The specified file is not a registry script. You can only import binary registry files from within the registry editor.

[Tweak]

The .reg method doesn't seem to work.

Please don't take insult to this question but did set your file extensions to show and make sure it didn't save as openfilelocation.txt.reg
I used the code above to create the rar which I have been using here on my pc, this is an example of what it does, I have my Quick Launch setup so everything on my pc can be opened without needing to bother with the Start Menu, this means I have many shortcuts, here is a pic that shows how I can click and the folder the shortcut is in will open. I have also double checked the reg code and the information is correct and should work, make sure you copy all the data, I included the download for people wanting to do it the easy way.

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[JokerFMJ]

Please don't take insult to this question but did set your file extensions to show and make sure it didn't save as openfilelocation.txt.reg
I used the code above to create the rar which I have been using here on my pc, this is an example of what it does, I have my Quick Launch setup so everything on my pc can be opened without needing to bother with the Start Menu, this means I have many shortcuts, here is a pic that shows how I can click and the folder the shortcut is in will open. I have also double checked the reg code and the information is correct and should work, make sure you copy all the data, I included the download for people wanting to do it the easy way.

Example:

lol, No offense taken, man. =D Yeah, it was a .reg file (even had the little .reg icon instead of a notepad ). Still not working... I was just trying it to see, so i'm not too concerned, just wanted to bring it to your attention.

As long as it's working for everyone else, though. :)

Nevermind, I got it working... Heh. I didn't have the "Windows Registry Editor" line in there. Whoops. =D

Thought you meant to leave that out and I don't remember ever having to do that with other .reg files i've made. Thanks!

This post has been edited by JokerFMJ: Jul 3 2007, 10:37 PM

[Tweak]

lol, No offense taken, man. =D Yeah, it was a .reg file (even had the little .reg icon instead of a notepad ). Still not working... I was just trying it to see, so i'm not too concerned, just wanted to bring it to your attention.

As long as it's working for everyone else, though. :)

Nevermind, I got it working... Heh. I didn't have the "Windows Registry Editor" line in there. Whoops. =D

Thought you meant to leave that out and I don't remember ever having to do that with other .reg files i've made. Thanks!

No problem man, I love this and I use it all the time, as a side note it also works within the Opera browser transfer window, the newer versions of Opera removed a setting Opera used like the one created here, I have added it back to Opera and in fact added ActiveX support to my Opera as well, but this method also allows the same function with a reg mod rather than the edit of the opera config file. Anyways, this is one of my all time fav mods as silly as that sounds, but I get so much use out of it, hope it helps many.

[necrocowboy]

Thanks Tweak - looks like a useful 'tweak' to x64.

NC

[mikbhoy]

thanks.

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