Vista - Shell Command

Hi Brink,

Enjoyed the tutorial. Never knew about this. Thanks.
One cmd. that woked oddly was the 'shell:TreePropertiesFolder'.
The window pops up and in half a sec. it closes. Any ideas why that would happen.
I have read several of the tutorials. What a great resource. Thanks to all.

Gary

Gary,

When you right click on it at the top part of the Start menu and click Open folder location, it opens the user Desktop folder with Dektop highlighted in the folder tree.

Other than that, I have not found much use for it yet either.

Shawn

I give up. Where's the white line (Start Search) area? Should I access the search feature? (opens Explorer) But typing the Shell Command in the Search box in Explorer produces no results. Please advise.

Hi Antje,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

It is the white line with Start Search in it at the bottom of the Start menu in the screenshot at the top of this tutorial.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

And how do I get the curser in the white line in the screen shot in order to type or paste the shell command?

Hi Antje,

You can click in the box, but there is no need. Just start typing. Should go there automatically.

Gary

FYI:
If you are using the classic taskbar, then you can use run instead of search.

Ok i realy started to dislike Vista, everytime something has to be change to get into it.
So you are telling us these nice commands. but i donwloaded a game, realy wanna play it. but cant be open on vista, says he need a windows shell commor. Great wonderfull. so im searching for the answer and come here. And well cant find the answer yet. first of all every command that i type in to teh search line, says cant find files, cant open of dont excist!

How can i open this rar program in vista? without having to do so much changes on my laptop?
My winrar program does not even open it, changed name of file everything but vista wont open it. so can somebody help me and be realy clear about it?

Hello Naihla, and welcome to Vista Forums.

It sounds like you may be having more serious problems if none of the shell commands above would not open anything when typed into the Start Menu search box or RUN window. How does everything else run on the computer?

Could you post back with the exact complete error message the game gives you when you try to open or install it?

You might give the free program 7-Zip a try instead. Run it as administrator, click on Options, then select the RAR file extention to be handled by 7-Zip.

Hope this helps for now,
Shawn