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"12 Folder" From Here!

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Here's my cheap inexpensive tribute to Raymond (no, not you Raymond, the OTHER Raymond that had a piano in his office while working on DX1, ahh the good ol' days!).

I got tired of opening a command prompt and manually navigating to the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN folder each time I wanted to poke around (i.e. usually run some form of stsadm or psconfig command) so I whipped up a registry file that I deploy on all of my SharePoint machines.  Nothing fancy, but useful to me and perhaps you, too.

Save the following as a .REG file and import it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Open12Folder]
@="12 Folder"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Open12Folder\Command]
@="cmd.exe /k cd \"%%CommonProgramFiles%%\\microsoft shared\\web server extensions\\12\\BIN\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\OpenNew]
@="Command Prompt"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\OpenNew\Command]
@="cmd.exe /k cd %1"

Now can I right click on an open explorer folder or any desktop shell folder (My Computer, My Network Places, My Documents) and simply select "12 Folder" from the context menu and I have a command prompt at my disposal waiting for me in the \BIN directory.  As you probably noticed, you also get the "Command Prompt" here for free, too.

Yes, I know I could have just added this directory to my path, but that would require me right clicking on My Computer... selecting Properties... clicking the Advanced tab... clicking the Environment Variables button... selecting the Path variable... clicking the Edit button... blah blah blah, I'm already tired just typing it... :)  The shell rules, let's leave it at that.

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  • Anonymous
    September 26, 2007
    Learning something new every day!

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    September 26, 2007
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    October 08, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    October 12, 2007
    Direkter Download: SPPD-078-2007-10-12 Aktuell Microsoft MVP Award Runde 10 XTOPIA Windows SharePoint

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    October 12, 2007
    Direkter Download: SPPD-078-2007-10-12 Aktuell Microsoft MVP Award Runde 10 XTOPIA Windows SharePoint

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    January 09, 2008
    Direkter Download: SPPD-078-2007-10-12 Aktuell Microsoft MVP Award Runde 10 XTOPIA Windows SharePoint

  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2008
    Thinks If you have been using Microsoft SharePoint technologies for a while, you are wise to the ways

  • Anonymous
    November 09, 2008
    here is a very handy registry edit that will add a "Command prompt" and "12 Folder" commands to your

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2009
    Direkter Download: SPPD-078-2007-10-12 Aktuell Microsoft MVP Award Runde 10 XTOPIA Windows SharePoint