Windows Explorer on Marko Apfel

Accessing GAC-files in Explorer without registry hacks

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:56:00 +0100

Problem

If you go in Explorer to the GAC folder (%windir%\Assembly) a shell extension gives you a special view of the content there:

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In this view you couldn’t copy the DLLs to somewhere else.

Fix folder scrolling problem in navigation pane of Explorer

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:00:00 +0100

Since my first steps with Win7 I hate the behavior of Explorer to scroll down the current expanded folder in the navigation pane. Today I found a solution in this thread:

Bug: Windows Explorer expands folders inappropriately, jumping the folder you expand to the bottom of the navigation pane

Explorer context menu to create a blank Visual Studio solution

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:25:00 +0200

Starting a new Visual Studio solution through the IDE is often too complex and time wasting.

Other programs allows per default to create a blank document with the explorer context menu. Why not offer this functionality for Visual Studio?

Starting an explorer as an admin

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:24:00 +0200

With the runas tool it is possible to start an application under an other account.

But the explorer need the special parameter /separate to start.

So the correct line for the run-menu is: