Take a look at this blog entry: REFRESHING THE TASKBAR NOTIFICATION AREA. I am using this code to refresh the system tray to get rid of orphaned icons and it works perfectly. The blog entry is very informative and gives a great explanation of the steps the author performed to discover his solution. #define FW(x,y) … Read more
Does anyone have any ideas how to do this better? Personally I don’t know. You mention the Tortoise programs which do a similar thing, so an excellent starting point would be to have a look at what they do in their source 🙂 These look to be the relevant source files that handle this problem: … Read more
Searching for an answer after a coworker had the issue i found none so i wrote a small class to do this. The code is on Gist and i will paste the curent version at the end of this post. With your sample files, the syntax will be : ShowSelectedInExplorer.FilesOrFolders( @”Z:\Music\Thursday Blues\01. I wish it … Read more
That’s a lot of hacking to do something that is explicitly supported by the various shell objects and interfaces. Granted the documentation doesn’t make it easily discoverable, but the functionality is there. Raymond Chen wrote a great article about using these interfaces. There doesn’t appear to be a way to get the “current” folder, though … Read more
After parsing some of the earlier answers and doing a bit of research, I’ve created a little complete example in C#. This closes the explorer shell then waits for it to completely shut down and restarts it. Hope this helps, there’s a lot of interesting info in this thread. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; … Read more
Why not Process.Start(@”c:\test”);?
Sure. From a mindless technology article called “Make Python Scripts Droppable in Windows”, you can add a drop handler by adding a registry key: Here’s a registry import file that you can use to do this. Copy the following into a .reg file and run it (Make sure that your .py extensions are mapped to … Read more
I am aware of two ways to do it. The fancy way is to write a windows shell extension, which is how powerarchiver, winzip etc do it I believe (this involves running code to determine what the context menu items will be dependent on the file chosen). The simple way, for simple functionality, is you … Read more
Step 1. On your desktop right click “New”->”Text Document” with name OpenGitBash.reg Step 2. Right click the file and choose “Edit” Step 3. Copy-paste the code below, save and close the file Step 4. Execute the file by double clicking it Note: You need administrator permission to write to the registry. Windows Registry Editor Version … Read more
Here is an alternate way with nircmd util from http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html Examples: nircmd win move ititle “cmd.exe” 5 5 10 10 nircmd win setsize ititle “cmd.exe” 30 30 100 200 nircmd cmdwait 1000 win setsize ititle “cmd.exe” 30 30 1000 600 Here are the contents of SetEnv.cmd: Explorer /n,c:\develop\jboss-4.2.3.GA\server\default\deploy nircmd wait 1000 win setsize ititle “something” … Read more