How implement "open folder containing" in context menu?

[Bill Woods]

After doing a serach with Windows Explorer, I can right click on a
file and see an option near the top of the context menu which says
"Open Folder Containing".

If I take the option then I open a folder which contains the file.

I would like to use this feature but I can't see how it is
implemented. Is it done by a registry key?

 

[Pavel]

There is a neat little program called Context Edit that will help you with
this. You can find it at PC Magazine website
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1556354,00.asp

 

[Black Baptist]

Bill Woods rambled on in microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize:

After doing a serach with Windows Explorer, I can right click on a
file and see an option near the top of the context menu which says
"Open Folder Containing".

If I take the option then I open a folder which contains the file.

I would like to use this feature but I can't see how it is
implemented. Is it done by a registry key?

You can get it here without going through all that subscribe crap...

ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utilfile/cnxtedit.zip

 

[Pavel]

Black Baptist,

The version on the FTP.SAC.SK is version 1.1 with outh the Installer. The
version on the PC Mag site is 1.2. It may not be much diffrent from the
version 1.1 but the Installer is important to many people since they may not
know how or where to install the program.

 

[Bill Woods]

I got the program Context Edit (by PC Mag) but it does not seem to
help what I am trying to do.

If you recall I want to be able to copy the feature which lets me
select a file from Win Explorer's search results and then be able to
open the folder containing the file.

I want to know exactly what the actual command is to do this. I can
implement it as a context menu item myself but I don't know what
command to use.

Thank you for any help.

 

[Black Baptist]

Pavel rambled on in microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize:

Black Baptist,

The version on the FTP.SAC.SK is version 1.1 with outh the Installer. The
version on the PC Mag site is 1.2. It may not be much diffrent from the
version 1.1 but the Installer is important to many people since they may not
know how or where to install the program.

1.1 doesn't need an installer you just double click the .exe no matter where
it's located.

 

[Pavel]

I do understand that you can just double click on it just as you can on many
other programs. The only problem is that since there is no installer to
place this program in the usual place (Program Files) and no entry is
created in Start/Program Files, the average user will have to keep it
someplace where the program can be found again and that becomes a problem
with more than few such programs when they are stored on desktop and/or
other places other than Program Files directory.

 

[Black Baptist]

Pavel rambled on in microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize:

I do understand that you can just double click on it just as you can on many
other programs. The only problem is that since there is no installer to
place this program in the usual place (Program Files) and no entry is
created in Start/Program Files, the average user will have to keep it
someplace where the program can be found again and that becomes a problem
with more than few such programs when they are stored on desktop and/or
other places other than Program Files directory.

Yeap, I put it in C:\Utils with other non installers.