{"id":1561,"date":"2013-01-07T21:53:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T19:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9v.lt\/blog\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2022-01-19T08:34:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T06:34:41","slug":"target-opener-program-to-add-find-target-to-context-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/9v.lt\/blog\/target-opener-program-to-add-find-target-to-context-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Target opener – program to add “Find target” to context menu"},"content":{"rendered":"

My newest project in C++. I just started with C++ so code might not be godlike, so bear with me.
\nMainly to make my life easier, because I usually use the “Find target<\/em>” button on shortcuts and to save me some clicking I made this.
\nSolutions for this problem already exist, but they all need registering with regsrv32 this and running in CMD that. Fuck ’em. My solution is simple and it works.<\/p>\n

It adds a context menu entry via the registry for LNK file types (shortcuts). So when you right-click a shortcut, “Find target<\/em>” item appears.
\nIt works on WinXP and Win7. But for Win7 you have to do something about that UAC – most likely just disable that shit, it’s useless anyway.
\n
\nSo, I packed everything in a self-extracting archive. Extract it to somewhere and there will be the program and 3 batch files. Run “add.bat<\/em>” to install it, “remove.bat<\/em>” to remove it.
\nRun TargetOpener.exe<\/em> in CMD with “help<\/em>” arg to see the usage help. But included batch files are enough.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here is the archive:
\nTargetOpenerArchive.exe<\/a><\/p>\n

here is the whole project (made with Embarcadero RAD studio):
\nTargetOpenerProject.zip<\/a><\/p>\n

and here is the code (I must confess – path extraction from LNK files snippet was put together from pieces found on the web and modified a bit, I didn’t write it entirely):
\nTargetOpener.cpp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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