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I can create a menu item in the Windows Explorer context menu by adding keys in the registry to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell . How can I create submenu items to the just created menu item? I believe anything non-trival you'll have to create a Context Menu Handler . You'll have to create a COM object that will create the menus and carry out the commands as they're clicked. I've only done this using C++ and COM. I'm not sure if there are easier ways to do this. Use SubCommands "SubCommands"="[NameOfMenu]" Example for creating submenu for .TS files: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.ts

I am trying to get a list of selected files from the Windows Desktop and the Explorer Windows. The requirement is that I should be able to retrieve the current selection from the active explorer window or the Desktop. I have managed to put together the following code, after going through online resources, but it does not provide a list of selected items from the Desktop. ArrayList selected = new ArrayList(); var shell = new Shell32.Shell(); IntPtr handle = IntPtr.Zero; handle = GetForegroundWindow(); int intHandle = handle.ToInt32(); //For each explorer foreach (InternetExplorer window in new

I have a script that listens to a jabber server and responds accordingly. Though it's not supposed to stop, last night it did. Now I want to run a cron job every minute to check if the script is running, and start it if not. The question is, how do I check if a particular script is still running? Some solutions have been posted here , but those are all for Linux, while I am looking for a Windows solution. Any ideas please? Thanks. A quick and dirty workaround could be for the script to update a row in a database with a date column set to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. Have the cron second script check if

According to everything I've seen, the following C++ program should be displaying a balloon tool tip from the tray icon when I left-click in the application window, yet it's not working. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? This is on XP with version 6.0 of Shell32.dll (verified with DllGetVersion). Thanks! #include "stdafx.h" #include "shellapi.h" LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hWnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam); int APIENTRY _tWinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPTSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) { MSG msg; WNDCLASS wc; memset(&wc, 0, sizeof(wc)); wc.lpfnWndProc

I am trying to write a .bat file to automate some shell commands. Most of the commands are easy and I can just put them into the batch file directly, but there is one command which instead of taking command line parameters, expects you to type in the options you want using "the standard input". I'm not exactly sure what that means. Can someone tell me how to do this? The text I would like to be entered is the contents of one of the files in the directory: "options.txt" which I want to concatenate with a variable inside the batch file "$(additionaloptions)". Make sense? The usual way to do this

I have made an application that presents you a list of files in your computer. Whenever you click any item in the list, a small PictureBox next to it should show the thumbnail of the corresponding file. I am using C# on Windows 7. To obtain the thumbnail, I've recurred to a method posted in a different question. First, I reference the Windows API Code pack. Then, I use the following code: ShellFile shellFile = ShellFile.FromFilePath(fullPathToFile); myPictureBox.Image = shellFile.Thumbnail.LargeBitmap; This doesn't always work. Sometimes, the thumbnail shown is merely the 'default application'