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IT IS A NIGHTMARE!!! MY FILES2FOLDER ISN'T WORKING - WAHHH WAHHH WHHHH

I tried removing it (elevated) and adding it again..
cleaning out every reference to 'files 2 folder' and the CLSID= "{a951a7c0-97b1-11de-b5f4-0002a5d5c51b}"

No luck. Here is error...


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1. I manually entered a string value with a location to my Files2Folder.exe to use it's icon. Looks more nice in the context menu. Maybe ask users upon installation?
-hairypaulsack (July 31, 2015, 04:22 AM)

I'll consider this.  Which hive/key/value did you add?



I just went to 'HKCR\*\shell\Files 2 Folder' key (the folder; drop targets  and added a new string value with NAME = 'Icon'  and 'C:\%USERPROFILE%\[ Alt. Program Files ]\Files 2 Folder\Files2Folder.exe,0' as the DATA.

Just like you can throw a string value with 'Extended' to make any \shell context menu item show up on the extended (SHIFT + RIGHT CLICK) context menu \shellex, you can add an Icon string value with Data pointing to your choice of icon just like when doing so when right clicking on the properties of a shortcut.

SYNTAX
: "Icon"="\"C:\\LOCATION\\TO\\PARENT\\DIRECTORY\\OF\\PROGRAM DIRECTORY\\EXECUTABLE WITH DESIRED ICON.exe\""
For some reason it will only take the this default icon, at least on my computer. Normally it follows default icon syntax parameters by allowing you to pick from any of the multiple icons that are usually made available with each .exe file.

EX:
"Icon"="\"C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe,0
You can see I'm using the 0th icon from the sublime file, the initial icon. If you used the SHELL32.DLL icon set by pointing at '%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll' there are like 100 icons packed in this file. I'm sure you know most of this it's just cool stuff for anyone reading.

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Here is my exported key
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Files 2 Folder]
"Icon"="\"C:\\Users\\%USERPROFILE%\\[ Alt. Program Files ]\\Files 2 Folder\\Files2Folder.exe\""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Files 2 Folder\DropTarget]
"CLSID"="{a951a7c0-97b1-11de-b5f4-0002a5d5c51b}"

There are plenty of programs that do this for you and much more, but what is driving me nuts is HOW DO YOU MAKE A FREAKING DIVIDER???? All I know is another tag just like 'Icon' and 'Extended' to make it show it the top where AMD CCC hangs, the middle, or the bottom where Gadgets, Display Settings, Person.... - respectively TOP MIDDLE and BOTTOM



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Hey thanks for the awesome program. I use it everyday.
First of all wanted to say that it works great but there are a few hiccups/suggestion.

1. I manually entered a string value with a location to my Files2Folder.exe to use it's icon. Looks more nice in the context menu. Maybe ask users upon installation?

2. Doesn't work with items on my desktop. Actually some weird shit is happening. I'll provide two examples, both from icons on my desktop. The two programs I tested right now (though I have tried this many times in the past) were WinDriStat and OpenIV [Drive space tree image viewer and GTAIV and V modding utility]
2.A. The WinDirStat made an empty folder in C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86) and did not take or make a copy of the file.
2B. The OpenIV app made it's way to C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\New Technology Studio\Apps and made a copy of the program, placed it in a folder of the name (which is kinda properly working) and changed the location in the target value of the original desired item from the desktop.

May this have something to do with them being shortcuts?

3. Finally I'm having issues in protected areas. I can't use the program in say Program Files. I assume this is due to UAC but I edited the properties of the original location of Files2Folder.exe and told it to run as administrator without any success. Trying to run it elevated only produced errors in an inability to locate the Files2Folder.exe item. I tried to run Files2Folders in a command prompt and didn't have any progress. Process Monitor showed the location of Files2Folder.exe with the targeted filed behind it as the command that was run but I guess there are trade secrets lol? Is this code opensource? I'm learning and would love a smaller program to learn a little. I'm at a dead end with Process Monitor and regedit trying to see how the program works.

Thanks
Paul

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