Adding Windows Explorer Command-Line Options Thread last updated on 2005-10-13 16:09:09

Posted by member 273371 on 2005-10-12 06:31:48

I am using the Austerity theme that came with Litestep and would like to add /e, C:\ to the filemanager/cmd prompt shortcut on the taskbar, but everthing I have tried it does not seem to work. I've tried to to edit themevars.rc and used EvarConfig. I can't seem to find the right post in the forums to help me. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Posted by member 148416 on 2005-10-12 06:58:10 link

Well what you want to do is in themevars.rc.

No doubt you found the "SC1Name", "SC2Name", etc... lines...

You want the "SC3LClick" entry. Change it to:

SC3LClick "$FileManager$ /e C:"


This isn't the BEST way to do it... because if you decide to switch FileManagers it'll break... actually I think you can drop the "/e" but I could be wrong ;)

Edit: the forums are eating the backslash after "C:" but you knew that ;)

Posted by member 273371 on 2005-10-12 13:35:17 link

Nope didn't work, thx though

Posted by member 212670 on 2005-10-12 14:50:54 link

There might be problems doing it through the themevars.rc because of some needed extra quotes. Go in the quicklaunch_icons.rc file, and look for the ["$SC3LClick$"] entry, and change it to ["$FileManager$" /e,"C:\"]

Posted by member 273371 on 2005-10-13 08:03:45 link

also did not work

Posted by member 212670 on 2005-10-13 13:10:51 link

Umm...what OS you running? It worked perfectly fine for me on XP SP2 (tested it first). At this point, I'm thinking you're doing something wrong.

Posted by member 273371 on 2005-10-13 16:09:09 link

Sorry, I put it in the wrong file. It works perfect. thank you for the help.