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I'm working with a new property schema, and have been in the habit of checking the registry when I register or unregister a new version. One of the primary places to check this is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\PROPERTYSYSTEM\PROPERTYSCHEMA . Interestingly, I occasionally lose access to this registry location in Regedit. I see see this (note the absence of PropertySchema): I know the schemas are still registered, because I can use the prop.exe tool and propschema SDK sample application to describe them. The properties are available in Windows Explorer and in

Based on the answers I received at superuser , it's clear that I'll have to add the following to a custom Explorer Window launcher. I want to launch a rooted explorer view, and for just that window make the navigation pane look like the old Windows XP folders pane. I already wrote a program to place shortcuts to these folder views on the Start Menu, so changing the shortcuts to run through a launcher is trivial. Here's the XP folders pane: Here's the Windows 7 Navigation Pane: (source: 280z28.org ) tyranid Okay well I haven't got the time to completely finish this code (and it is in C# which I

When a user has navigated in the Windows Explorer to e.g. a folder on the SD-card of his Android phone, the Explorer shows a kind of breadcrumb path like "This PC\Galaxy Tab A\Card\Folder1" when one clicks in the address bar. Windows Explorer also accepts these kind of paths when entering or copying them in the address bar and pressing return. I wonder if there is a way to parse these kind of breadcrumb paths using the Shell API and get a PItemIDList or IShellItem in return. So far I did not succeeed using e.g. SHParseDisplayName() . This code LPITEMIDLIST itemidlist; HRESULT hr =

I am attempting to create a descendant of TShellListView that accepts files dropped from Windows Explorer. I want to handle the drag/drop in my component definition without having to implement it in any of the applications that use the component (I've found examples of accepting files dropped from Windows Explorer, but all at the application / TForm level). I'm calling DragAcceptFiles() in my constructor, and I've defined a message handler for WM_DROPFILES. However, when I use this component in a sample project and drag a file from Windows Explorer: I see the "not accepted" icon (circle w/

I need to perform several operations on a list of windows (minimize some of them, restore others) in order to switch between two or more set of windows at once. The problem with this are those animations you can see when minimizing and restoring a window. The whole process look terrible with all those animations going in and out, up and down. I cannot, however, disable those animations because this is for other computers and i dont want to change other people's settings, plus those animations are actually useful when you minimize/restore one window only (i.e. when YOU do it manually) because

How to kill a process by name and orginiated from a particular path using taskkill? taskkill /F /IM certainly it cant differentiate 2 process started from two different locations C:\Dir1 and C:\Dir2 Does tasklist has any switch to get the path name taskkill cannot do it. But you could use PowerShell if it's an option: (Get-WmiObject Win32_Process | Where-Object { $_.Path.StartsWith('C:\Dir1') }).Terminate() Akira Yamamoto Based on Joey's answer: wmic Path win32_process Where "CommandLine Like '%-jar selenium-server.jar%'" Call Terminate This way I avoid NullReferenceException when Path is null

I have found various articles on getting the system images for a file or even file extension. I have the belows methods which are working for obtaining small 16x16 and large 32x32 images. // DLL Import [DllImport("shell32")] private static extern IntPtr SHGetFileInfo( string pszPath, uint dwFileAttributes, ref SHFILEINFO psfi, uint cbFileInfo, uint uFlags); // Constants/Enums private const int FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL = 0x80; private enum SHGetFileInfoConstants : int { SHGFI_ICON = 0x100, // get icon SHGFI_DISPLAYNAME = 0x200, // get display name SHGFI_TYPENAME = 0x400, // get type name SHGFI