open in Explorer

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natri23
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Joined: 12 Mar 2008, 13:35

open in Explorer

Post by natri23 »

Since Salamander basically replaces my Win Explorer, would it be possible to integrate a shell extensions or something that could always open Folder calls in Salamander instead of Explorer?
Ex: If I'd open destination folder from foobar2000, it would jump to Salamander instead of Explorer
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SvA
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Re: open in Explorer

Post by SvA »

Try adding an entry to to the registry at
reg:\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\directory\shell\Open\command\(Standard)
calling Salamander like
"%PROGRAMFILES%\Altap Salamander\salamand.exe" -L "%V"

This assumes Altap Salamander installed to the default location on a 32-bit system. The type of the registry value is REG_EXPAND_SZ (or type out the full path and use REG_SZ). Also, you might want to modify the parameters to salamand.exe (see help file).

Test using Win+R Execute dialog or start command from a cmd console.

You might want to replace HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT with HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes to explicitly set the command for all or just the current user.
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