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Old 10-04-2008   #1 (permalink)
MilesAhead


Vista Home Premium 64 bit SP1
 
 

dreaded spaces in shell special folders

I just found a little tutorial that shows how to open shell special folders from
a command prompt. As in C:\>start shell:Personal
to open the Documents folder. All well and good but naturally there's no example
to demonstrate doing the same with a shell folder that has spaces in the name.

Example: C:\>start shell:Quick Launch gets an error "cannot find shell:Quick"
I tried double quotes, single quotes in as many combinations I could could contrive
but no joy.

Anyone have the easter egg that works?

(btw I notice nobody is taking credit for the great innovation of spaces in file paths.)

edit: btw I have search indexing disabled to it's no good to use the search in the start button. I need to use a command prompt

Last edited by MilesAhead; 10-04-2008 at 06:42 PM.. Reason: more info
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