Hotkey Assignment and Windows Explorer

[SAM]

Hi again everyone,

I hope this problem will be an easy one ...

I’m trying to assign a hotkey combo (ALT+CONTROL+X)
to bring up Windows Explorer. I can get one instance
of it OK, but I want a new instance of it every time
I hit the hotkey combo.

It works OK on my primary PC (I can get additional
instances of Win Exp every time I hit the combo),
but not on my secondary PC. What baffles me is that
the property boxes are identical on both PC’s.

Is there a command line option that will tell
Win Exp to create a new instance of itself
even if there already is an instance(s) active?

Can anyone clue me in?


TIA.


- Sam

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

SAM fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

Hi again everyone,

I hope this problem will be an easy one ...

I'm trying to assign a hotkey combo (ALT+CONTROL+X)
to bring up Windows Explorer. I can get one instance
of it OK, but I want a new instance of it every time
I hit the hotkey combo.

It works OK on my primary PC (I can get additional
instances of Win Exp every time I hit the combo),
but not on my secondary PC. What baffles me is that
the property boxes are identical on both PC's.

Is there a command line option that will tell
Win Exp to create a new instance of itself
even if there already is an instance(s) active?

Can anyone clue me in?


TIA.

Out of interest is there a reason why you don't just use the built in
Windows Key + E ?

 

[Gary Smith]

Make sure that the target line in the shortcut contains the /n option,
something like

D:\WINNT\EXPLORER.EXE /n,/e

Hi again everyone,

I hope this problem will be an easy one ...

I?m trying to assign a hotkey combo (ALT+CONTROL+X)
to bring up Windows Explorer. I can get one instance
of it OK, but I want a new instance of it every time
I hit the hotkey combo.

It works OK on my primary PC (I can get additional
instances of Win Exp every time I hit the combo),
but not on my secondary PC. What baffles me is that
the property boxes are identical on both PC?s.

 

[SAM]

SAM fumbled, fiddled and fingered:


Out of interest is there a reason why you don't just use the built in
Windows Key + E ?

Hi Steve,

When I do that, Windows Explorer crashes.

When I click (repeatedly) on the desktop icon,
it doesn't.

Now I just have to figure out a way to get
a hotkey combo to operate on the desktop icon.

... or some other option that doesn't cause
Windows Explorer to crash.

- Sam

 

[SAM]

Make sure that the target line in the shortcut contains the /n option,
something like

D:\WINNT\EXPLORER.EXE /n,/e

Hi Gary,

It didn't work.

I'm going to look into the possibility of using CMD
in resolving this.

I can put the command "explorer" in a batch file,
create a shortcut to the batchfile for the desktop,
then assign a hotkey to the shortcut, and it works OK
- not very elegant - but it works.

-SAM
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-


- Sam

 

[SAM]

Hi Gary,

It didn't work.

I'm going to look into the possibility of using CMD
in resolving this.

CRUD - nothing there does me any good.

I can put the command "explorer" in a batch file,
create a shortcut to the batchfile for the desktop,
then assign a hotkey to the shortcut, and it works OK
- not very elegant - but it works.

*DOUBLE* CRUD - now even THIS has stopped working.


Does anyone know where the hotkey entries are made
in the registry?

Maybe this would yield something useful.

-SAM
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

- Sam

- Sam

 

[SAM]

*TRIPLE* CRUD - Windows Explorer is crashing even when I just look at it.

(See post in other thread.)

- SAM
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Hi Gary,

It didn't work.

I'm going to look into the possibility of using CMD
in resolving this.

CRUD - nothing there does me any good.

I can put the command "explorer" in a batch file,
create a shortcut to the batchfile for the desktop,
then assign a hotkey to the shortcut, and it works OK
- not very elegant - but it works.

*DOUBLE* CRUD - now even THIS has stopped working.


Does anyone know where the hotkey entries are made
in the registry?

Maybe this would yield something useful.

-SAM
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

SAM <wylbur[at]ev1[dot]net> wrote:

Hi again everyone,

I hope this problem will be an easy one ...

I?m trying to assign a hotkey combo (ALT+CONTROL+X)
to bring up Windows Explorer. I can get one instance
of it OK, but I want a new instance of it every time
I hit the hotkey combo.

It works OK on my primary PC (I can get additional
instances of Win Exp every time I hit the combo),
but not on my secondary PC. What baffles me is that
the property boxes are identical on both PC?s.

Is there a command line option that will tell
Win Exp to create a new instance of itself
even if there already is an instance(s) active?

Can anyone clue me in?


TIA.


- Sam

- Sam

- Sam

- Sam

 

[Gary Smith]

Sounds like you have troubles that are deeper than simple registry
settings. You'd best undertake a search for malware, because it sure
sounds to me like you've picked up something nasty.

Using the "/n" option in the shortcut has always worked for me, even with
the "Reuse windows for launching shortcuts" option checked. You may have
contracted one of the "can't open a second window" problems that have been
so common lately.

*TRIPLE* CRUD - Windows Explorer is crashing even when I just look at it.

(See post in other thread.)

- SAM
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Make sure that the target line in the shortcut contains the /n option,
something like

D:\WINNT\EXPLORER.EXE /n,/e

Hi Gary,

It didn't work.

I'm going to look into the possibility of using CMD
in resolving this.

CRUD - nothing there does me any good.

I can put the command "explorer" in a batch file,
create a shortcut to the batchfile for the desktop,
then assign a hotkey to the shortcut, and it works OK
- not very elegant - but it works.

*DOUBLE* CRUD - now even THIS has stopped working.


Does anyone know where the hotkey entries are made
in the registry?

Maybe this would yield something useful.

-SAM
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

SAM <wylbur[at]ev1[dot]net> wrote:

Hi again everyone,

I hope this problem will be an easy one ...

I?m trying to assign a hotkey combo (ALT+CONTROL+X)
to bring up Windows Explorer. I can get one instance
of it OK, but I want a new instance of it every time
I hit the hotkey combo.

It works OK on my primary PC (I can get additional
instances of Win Exp every time I hit the combo),
but not on my secondary PC. What baffles me is that
the property boxes are identical on both PC?s.

Is there a command line option that will tell
Win Exp to create a new instance of itself
even if there already is an instance(s) active?

Can anyone clue me in?


TIA.


- Sam

- Sam

- Sam

 

[SAM]

Sounds like you have troubles that are deeper than simple registry
settings. You'd best undertake a search for malware, because it sure
sounds to me like you've picked up something nasty.

Using the "/n" option in the shortcut has always worked for me, even with
the "Reuse windows for launching shortcuts" option checked. You may have
contracted one of the "can't open a second window" problems that have been
so common lately.

I have AVG anti-virus and Kerio firewall installed,
along with Ad-Aware, Registry Mechanic, and PCBugDoctor.

Do you have any recomendations?

SAM
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

*TRIPLE* CRUD - Windows Explorer is crashing even when I just look at it.

(See post in other thread.)

- SAM
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 20:20:28 -0500, SAM <wylbur[at]ev1[dot]net> wrote:


Make sure that the target line in the shortcut contains the /n option,
something like

D:\WINNT\EXPLORER.EXE /n,/e

Hi Gary,

It didn't work.

I'm going to look into the possibility of using CMD
in resolving this.

CRUD - nothing there does me any good.


I can put the command "explorer" in a batch file,
create a shortcut to the batchfile for the desktop,
then assign a hotkey to the shortcut, and it works OK
- not very elegant - but it works.

*DOUBLE* CRUD - now even THIS has stopped working.


Does anyone know where the hotkey entries are made
in the registry?

Maybe this would yield something useful.

-SAM
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-



SAM <wylbur[at]ev1[dot]net> wrote:

Hi again everyone,

I hope this problem will be an easy one ...

I?m trying to assign a hotkey combo (ALT+CONTROL+X)
to bring up Windows Explorer. I can get one instance
of it OK, but I want a new instance of it every time
I hit the hotkey combo.

It works OK on my primary PC (I can get additional
instances of Win Exp every time I hit the combo),
but not on my secondary PC. What baffles me is that
the property boxes are identical on both PC?s.

Is there a command line option that will tell
Win Exp to create a new instance of itself
even if there already is an instance(s) active?

Can anyone clue me in?


TIA.


- Sam

- Sam

- Sam

- Sam

- Sam

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

SAM fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

I have AVG anti-virus and Kerio firewall installed,
along with Ad-Aware, Registry Mechanic, and PCBugDoctor.

Do you have any recomendations?

Spybot and Spyware Blaster

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

 

[Gary Smith]

SAM fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

Spybot and Spyware Blaster

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

I believe (but of course cannot prove) that Spyware Blaster is responsible
for keeping my system clean. Ad-Aware finds the occasional tracking
cookie, but never anything serious, Spybot has never found anything for
me that Ad-Aware didn't.

I'd suggest that in addition to the others, you get Hijack This and run a
scan. It lists everything, good and bad, that has attached itself or been
attached to your system. It takes a bit of work to analyze the report,
but you should be able to identify everything on it. Anything that you
can't identifiy and verify as beneficial is a candidate for removal.

http://www.merijn.org/
http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip