open folder window in explorer

[petermad]

Shift+RightArrow (or LeftArrow) is the safest way to focus the command line without risk of having what's already there altered. If you are not in Brief view or Thumbnail view, you don't even need to press Shift. This is also the way described in the help file.

[Balderstrom]

Cool, but Shift+(Right|Left) is not intuitive to me. Nor in tune with what all the other Left/Right combinations do (with or without modifier keys).
I don't see a need for 4+ keys (incl. Ctrl+Down and ALT+F8) to do the same basic task.

I'll fix it (if possible) with AHK to do:

If command-line is Not open:
--> Ctrl+Down: Opens command-line
If Command-Line is open, but not focused:
--> Ctrl+Down: Non-Destructively focus on command-line.

If Command-Line is open And focused:
--> Ctrl+Down: Toggles (opens/closes) command-line History.
[no change]: Up/Down Arrows puruses the History.

If command-line is focused And History is off/closed:
--> DownArrow: goes back to previous (source) FileList (panel)
--> UpArrow: goes to the Target FileList (panel)

The only thing lost with this simplification is, Ctrl+Down needs to be used twice to insert the last used command vs once now.
The gain is not needing to use 4+ different keys to non-destructively access the command-line and command-line history.

And as I Think about it, could also make it so if the command-line is not open, then Ctrl+Down does the same action as Ctrl+Shift+Enter

Which in essence means:
1) I can make one button on the mouse (MButton5) do those "Ctrl+Down" actions, and
2) Scroll-Wheel Down already returns to FileList by default in TC. Thus just need to make Scroll-Wheel-Up go to Target Panel.
3) Perhaps make MButton4 be Enter when the Command-Line is Focused.

[HAL 9000]

Select the desired folder with Total commander -> Right click with mouse to show contextual menu -> Open. Will open with Windows explorer instead of TC (at least in my computer with Windows 7). The good thing is that it works the same even if you don't have a mouse, because you can use the Menu key on your keyboard or use the button of your trackpad that emulates the mouse's right button if you have a notebook.

[frozensun]

necroposter breakink in:

Hi everyone!
I used this

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Command: explorer.exe
Parameters: %P

To make TC open the folder with explorer by pressing Ctrl+Enter. But it opens current folder. Is there a way to make it open the folder under the cursor?

[Stefan2]

necroposter breakink in:

Hi everyone!
I used this

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Command: explorer.exe
Parameters: %P

To make TC open the folder with explorer by pressing Ctrl+Enter. But it opens current folder. Is there a way to make it open the folder under the cursor?

Try to quote your %P-parameter >>>> "%P"






 

[Horst.Epp]

This is my button

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
C:\Windows\explorer.exe
/select,"%P%N"
C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Selected file in Explorer

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[frozensun]

Try to quote your %P-parameter >>>> "%P"

no change

This is my button

this stiill opens current directory but with preselected file/folder that was under the cursor.
but...
this %N parameter is what I was looking for.

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explorer.exe
"%P%N"

Does exactly what I need

Thank you!

[ootoo]

Command: explorer.exe
Parameters: %P

This command will open countless resource managers in the process. Each resource manager occupies 70M of memory and will not exit.
He does not open the current directory of TC in the only resource manager.
Instead, reopen a resource manager. You can open as many resource managers as you want. This is how I do it on win11.

[Fla$her]

2ootoo
Run from cmd:

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reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced /f /v SeparateProcess /d 0
gpupdate /force

And use this scheme:
Command: rundll32.exe url.dll, OpenURL
Parameters: "%P" (or %P%N, if you want the system to open a folder or file under the cursor)

[ootoo]

2ootoo
Run from cmd:

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reg /add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced /f /v SeparateProcess /d 0
 gpupdate /force

And use this scheme:
Command: rundll32.exe url.dll, OpenURL
Parameters: "%P" [color=#BFBFF](or[/color] %P%N, if you want the system to open a folder or file under the cursor)

The first code reg /add HKCU cannot be used,
The second method is perfect, thank you

[Fla$her]

The first code reg /add HKCU cannot be used

I forgot to remove the slash before add. Fixed.