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Windows Explorer is the file manager and navigation tool that exists in Microsoft Windows operating systems

Windows Explorer (or File Explorer in Windows 8), is a file manager and a navigation tool that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It is sometimes referred to as the Windows shell, explorer.exe, or simply “Explorer”.

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Is it possible to open a Windows Explorer window from PowerShell?

I'm sure this must be possible, but I can't find out how to do it. Any clues?
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Open a folder using Process.Start

I saw the other topic and I'm having another problem. The process is starting (saw at task manager) but the folder is not opening on my screen. What's wrong? System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("explorer.exe", @"c:\teste");
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Opening a folder in explorer and selecting a file

I'm trying to open a folder in explorer with a file selected. The following code produces a file not found exception: System.Diagnostics.Process.Start( "explorer.exe /select," + listView1.SelectedItems[0].SubItems[1].Text + "\\" +…
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How add context menu item to Windows Explorer for folders

I have found out how to add right-click context menu items to files on Windows Explorer, by adding keys to the registry. I.e. I can right-click on a file in Explorer and run a custom app against that file. I would like to do the same for a folder…
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Open explorer on a file

In Python, how do I jump to a file in the Windows Explorer? I found a solution for jumping to folders: import subprocess subprocess.Popen('explorer "C:\path\of\folder"') but I have no solution for files.
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Rules for "Date Modified" of folders in Windows Explorer

How does Windows Explorer determine the "Date Modified" field for folders? [Aside: I know this is asking from an explorer-specific perspective, but the behaviour could be useful to coding search/sort type activities] Is there a definitive…
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Eclipse projects not showing up after placing project files in workspace/projects

I've searched for 2 days and can't find anything. I find things that are close, but not what I need. I got a new computer recently and copied all of my projects over to my new computer. I opened Eclipse and generated a workspace, which I then closed…
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How to use java code to open Windows file explorer and highlight the specified file?

I am now using java Desktop API to manipulate file explorer. I know how to open the file explorer but I don't know how to open it and highlight the specified file. As we using the Chrome, after downloading files, we can choose "show in folder" to…
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How to remove git from menu context in Documents?

I have a little question: How can I remove the "git bash here" and "git gui here" from my menu context in my Documents directory? I have tried: Reinstalling the Git-2.15.0-64-bit with unchecked options. Removing the keys…
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Integrating into Windows Explorer context menu

I want to write a small tool, that does the following: When you right click on a file with a certain file-extension the Windows Explorer context menu shows an additional entry. When you click this entry a certain EXE is launched with this file as…
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Is there something similar for emacs like vims's NERDtree

For vim there is a filesystem explorer called NERDtree: https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree Surely an alternative or superior package exists for Emacs?
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Gracefully Exit Explorer (Programmatically)

How do you gracefully close Explorer programmatically? By that I mean, how do you invoke this function programmatically: Edit: Typo in the picture, it should say "Ctrl-Shift-Right-Click" instead of "Shift-Click".
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What is Microsoft Document Explorer 2008 used for?

What is Microsoft Document Explorer 2008 used for?
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How to create an Explorer-like folder browser control?

Using C# and WinForms in VS2008, I want to create a file browser control that looks and acts like the left pane in Windows Explorer. To my astonishment, such a control does not ship with .NET by default. Ideally, I would like its contents to be…
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Drag and drop to Desktop / Explorer

Following my scenario. I got an Application which loads a Filestructure (Folders, Files) from a Database into a WPF ListView. Now I'd like to grab a file from this ListView, drag it over my Desktop (or some open explorer window) and drop it there.…
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