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MilesAhead:
I got a nice write-up for my HalfShell ahk hack.  It's just a hotkey handler for Shift-Enter on 64 bit Vista and Windows Seven that opens selected folders in the 32 bit shell allowing some 32 bit shell extensions to work.

I recently updated it to empty its working set after each use to reduce the memory usage just sitting in the task tray.  I also added a test that the selection is a folder before opening. Latest version is 1.7.1.0 and can be downloaded from my site using this link(scroll about half way down the page and you'll find HalfShell.)

http://www.favessoft.com/hotkeys.html

The download on my site has the latest version.  Softpedia will likely update overnight.



edit: this is interesting.  All of a sudden google pops this up everywhere.  It's on boards saying it's "time limited shareware price $0" other boards saying it's Removed(as close as I can figure they were pissed because a hotkey tray app has no screen shot when I never submitted my program to them in the first place.)  Man the web is wild!!!

mouser:
very nice!  :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:

cranioscopical:
I got a nice write-up for my HalfShell ahk hack.
-MilesAhead (January 28, 2010, 01:05 PM)
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Well done!

MilesAhead:
Thanks guys.

MilesAhead:
btw it has been brought to my attention that there may have been some change to Windows Seven 64 bit post-beta that prevents this work-around from functioning.

I've uploaded a minor update.  Until I can test it one way or the other with W7 64 bit retail I'm labeling it as a Vista-only utility.

If anyone has W7 retail 64 bit and would like to try it out I'd be curious.  I don't understand why they would change this since it's their own work-around but oh well.

Here's the link to the updated zip file if anyone is curious to try it:

http://www.favessoft.com/HalfShell.zip


I'm not exactly sure what the issue is.  The only information I have is that it "does nothing" when you hit the hotkey.  I don't know if the 64 bit Windows in question even has the file
%windir%\SysWow64\explorer.exe

Stranger all the time. I found one reference to it on the web:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7programs/thread/5e360735-6ad9-4b38-b64e-bc5e13fac852

as you can see the only information is "does not seem to work anymore" so I don't know what to do with that.

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