I tried to search the forums but I havent found exactly what I was looking for. I want to create a popup item like
*Popup "my computer" !PopupMyComputer
But I want it not to just open a popup-dynamic folder but also to be clickable. When I left-click on it, I want to open total commander or explorer or whatever. I cant figure out how can I do this. Thanks for soon reply!
To my knowledge that isn't possible. A popup entry can't be both a folder and a single clickable entry at the same time. What you can do is right click and select "Open" from the context menu.
I know about that option (right click -> Open), but I use LiteStep to simplify my life. So I try to make it as comfortable as possible. But thx for your reply
what about just a !popupmycomputer ??? maybe I am missing the point...
But I need to have that entry clickable (It will open My Computer window on left-click or whatever).
I'm starting to think I'm missing the point too... to me this looks just like pointless redundancy. If you have a popup folder that lists the contents of My Computer (or Your Computer, more correctly :P), why would you want to launch a file manager that does the same thing at the same time? Why isn't one or the other good enough? And furthermore, the popup will close as soon as the file manager is opened (unless you use xpopup and change that behavior).
Yes. You're absolutely correct. The point is-that i am using a very minimalistic theme, i like the popup view of my computer but I normally use total commander for my work. So I just want to combinate these two things together to make it all in one buuton.
Hmmm. Well, even if it was possible to add this dual behavior to a popup folder (which I'm fairly certain it's not, but I could be wrong), you're out of luck anyway. You can't open My Computer in TC, it just doesn't work that way.
bah! I know that I cant open my computer in TC. I work with TC for years. My plan was to do it for explorer. But then I got an idea to make some sort of a script or something to make every subfolder in popupmycomputer clickable. It would open that directory in TC on left-click. But thats really very complex because I need to find out the current folder I am pointing on. I am pretty new to litestep so I did not want to ask about so specific thing.
Well, you could make a folder of shortcuts, each of which opened up those folders in TC. Call it !popupMyOtherComputer or something like that. That would *only* give you left clickability though. Actually, I just tried double-left clicking on the folder entries in xpopup, and it opened up explorer to the selected folder. I couldn't actually find where that was documented, though. =)
Isn't it possible to change the default file manager in windows so that when you double click on My Computer it opens in Total Commander?
That's the thing you see; it's not possible to open My Computer in TC. I know, it sounds strange, but it has to do with the way the program's laid out. You have access to all drives directly from the interface at all times, so having My Computer in a TC pane would be very pointless.
I tried this at the command line:
assoc .Folder='C:\Utilities\FileManagers\2xExplorer\2xExplorer.exe'
but it didn't seem to have any effect. Perhaps it would if you followed it with a logoff or reboot. Or... maybe that's not the right association to modify. I dunno. Maybe if you edit
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\command
directly instead of using ASSOC? It's set by default to be
%SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe /idlist,%I,%L
West :: While Ive never seen TC I do know explorer. Even the Folder view of Explorer has a My Computer view. However, once you start getting into folders "My Computer" is really out of the picture and it would just go to that folder which wouldn't be pointless.