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The Windows Shell is the main graphical user interface in Windows hosted by Windows Explorer.

Getting output from a shell/dos app into a Delphi app

I have a commandline application coded in delphi that I need to call from a normal desktop application (also coded …

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Windows shell extension with C#

I was wanting to write a simple windows shell extension to add to the context menu, and C# is the …

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How to set focus back to form after opening up a process (Notepad)?

I open up a notepad from my program using Process.Start() but the new opened notepad covers the screen. But …

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how to set environment variable from file contents?

On windows/cygwin, i want to be able save the PATH variable to file on one machine and load it …

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Get the Windows Download folder's path

I have some Excel VBA code that requires knowing the Downloads folder path. How could I do it? Since you …

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ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers - why so few?

At this point, everyone knows that there's a limit to the number of ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers (from MSDN): The number of different …

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Waiting until a process created by calling a batch file has completed

MyFile1.bat invokes MyFile2.bat twice: start MyFile2.bat argA, argB, argC start MyFile2.bat argX, argY, argZ At this …

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How do i get the path name from a file shortcut ? Getting exception

Possible Duplicate: Get target of shortcut folder For example, in C:\TEMP\ I have a shortcut called test.dll the …

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How to create a right-click context shell shortcut "edit with Emacs"?

Notepad++ automatically adds a shell shortcut so that when you're in Windows Explorer, you can right-click on a file and …

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How to set the "Media created" date on an MPEG-4 file

I have many MPEG-4 files transcoded from various digital camera formats for which the file system modified date is correct. …

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