Tweak will make Your seven easier ;)

Lomaaaz · Oct 15, 2009

Well i have this tweak i want to share with seven Forum but i think u all will like it
i hope

well we all when we click on the explorer icon at the task bar it opens this

but after this edit it will open ur explorer in my computer directley

like this

well here is how

and here is the Code:
without ()
(%systemroot%\explorer.exe /n, /c, ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D})
or
%systemroot%\explorer.exe /n, /c, ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

hope it was clear
it will save some few clicks

Antman · Oct 15, 2009

Thank you. Excellent suggestion.

Tutorials - Windows 7 Forums

Waterfox · Oct 15, 2009

great!

thanks

i thought it would be fixed in RTM ....

logicearth · Oct 15, 2009

Waterfox said:
great!

thanks i thought it would be fixed in RTM ....

Was it broken? I mean it would have to be broken to be fixed...

Perrybucsdad · Oct 15, 2009

Very nice!

b00st3d · Oct 15, 2009

thanks! i like that view much better!

blackroseMD1 · Oct 15, 2009

Nice

thanks man!

ickymay · Oct 15, 2009

quality tweak

ken9122 · Oct 15, 2009

+1

Very nice. I needed that!!

marco · Oct 15, 2009

See this thread: http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/22684-explorer-exe.html

It seems that using this tweak causes each explorer window you open to start a new explorer.exe thread (regardless of the "Launch folder windows in a separate process" setting under Folder Options/View tab). In the experience of more than just myself some of those duplicate threads don't get released properly. When using this tweak I would find a whole window full of left over explorer.exe tasks using up memory after a few days.

Antman · Oct 15, 2009

marco said:
See this thread: http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/22684-explorer-exe.html

It seems that using this tweak causes each explorer window you open to start a new explorer.exe thread (regardless of the "Launch folder windows in a separate process" setting under Folder Options/View tab). In the experience of more than just myself some of those duplicate threads don't get released properly. When using this tweak I would find a whole window full of left over explorer.exe tasks using up memory after a few days.

Not happening on my install of the RTM. I do recall a similar affect in a much earlier build.

marco · Oct 15, 2009

Maybe there's some other factor involved too then. I'm using RTM as well. As soon as I remove the shortcut parameters the behavior goes away.

Antman · Oct 15, 2009

marco said:
Maybe there's some other factor involved too then. I'm using RTM as well. As soon as I remove the shortcut parameters the behavior goes away.

I stand corrected. My earlier post was wrong. I was looking at a sorted task list.

Thanks - I needed a problem to investigate.

brb

Airbot · Oct 15, 2009

Lomaaaz said:
Well i have this tweak i want to share with seven Forum but i think u all will like it
i hope

Thanks for the tip, be sure to check out all the tutorials as Antman suggested, as this is already a tutorial.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2863-windows-explorer-taskbar-icon-change-open-target.html

Shark007 · Oct 15, 2009

Airbot said:
Lomaaaz said:

Well i have this tweak i want to share with seven Forum but i think u all will like it
i hope

Click to expand...

Thanks for the tip, be sure to check out all the tutorials as Antman suggested, as this is already a tutorial.

Airbot, if you read this thread more carefully, you'll discover it is a BAD tweak.

*tweak removed* (and I've used it since windows xp)

Antman · Oct 15, 2009

Actually, the post here is not valid and does cause the error reported by marco.

The correct string is
%windir%\explorer.exe /n,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

As always, the Shark is on the ball.

Airbot · Oct 15, 2009

Ah, didn't read the whole thing. The tutorial has both %windir% and %systemroot%, the latter posted by Limneos a few posts down the tutorial. I do not use the tweak, if Antman says the %windir% string works properly, and not the %systemroot%, then perhaps it should be brought to Brinks attention in the tutorial, so the %systemroot% strings can be taken out, or an warning issued about it.

Antman · Oct 15, 2009

Airbot said:
Ah, didn't read the whole thing. The tutorial has both %windir% and %systemroot%, the latter posted by Limneos a few posts down the tutorial. I do not use the tweak, if Antman says the %windir% string works properly, and not the %systemroot%, then perhaps it should be brought to Brinks attention in the tutorial, so the %systemroot% strings can be taken out, or an warning issued about it.

I think it is the addition of [ c, ] that breaks it.

I don't think it is the choice of env vars, but I could be wrong. No research performed other than testing the two strings.

%windir%\explorer.exe /n,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
%systemroot%\explorer.exe /n, /c, ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

Shark007 · Oct 15, 2009

Antman said:
Actually, the post here is not valid and does cause the error reported by marco.

The correct string is
%windir%\explorer.exe /n,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

As always, the Shark is on the ball.

The tweak itself is bad on Windows 7 systems no matter what path you use.

It opens a new explorer.exe process each time you use the shortcut
and does not close that new process when closing the window.

I reboot alot so it doesnt really add up to alot on my machine but for a user that doesnt reboot 17 times a day like i do they will end up with 100's of open explorer.exe processes.

I say ... bad tweak!

executing the default path,
%windir%\explorer.exe
does NOT open a new explorer.exe process.

Antman · Oct 15, 2009

Shark007 said:
Antman said:

Actually, the post here is not valid and does cause the error reported by marco.

The correct string is
%windir%\explorer.exe /n,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

As always, the Shark is on the ball.

Click to expand...

The tweak itself is bad on Windows 7 systems no matter what path you use.

It opens a new explorer.exe process each time you use the shortcut
and does not close that new process when closing the window.

If I use the shortcut once, a single additional instance of Explorer occurs. Subsequent clicks toggle min/max. Closing the window does NOT kill the process. Add'l clicks do indeed create new instances of explorer that behave properly (min/max).

This is odd. I used a similar (maybe the same) tweak in my unactivated wzor RTM 16385. While I did not specifically look for this affect, I am certain I would have noticed multiple explorer instances - since I have the bad habit of closing windows instead of min/maxing.

In my previous install, I had two icons on the TaskBar. One opened computer - and had a separate set of jumplist items from the original (and co-existing icon). I do not know how I did that. Somewhere in this forum, I have posted a screenshot of this setup.

That arrangement did not cause multiple unkillable instances of explorer.

To further complicate matters, I just experienced a non-dying instance of explorer using the default config. THe difference being that I just toggled ON the launch new process via Tools/Folder Options.

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