open explorer.exe with thumbnails 1

[KoenPiller]

Hi,
I use to open a directory

ShellExecute(0,'open,[Explorer.exe], myDirectory, [], 1)

which works fine. Now I would like to open the directory default with the Thumbnails view. Any idea which paramaters I should apply to get this result?
Kone

 

[Mike Lewis]

Hi Koen,

If there's any way of doing that, it's not documented. (The command-line switches for EXPLORER.EXE are here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130510).

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[KoenPiller]

Mike,
Thanks for the support. It was even easier than I would have thought. It is Windows to recall the last-opened-state. So the trick is, open the folder once with Thumbnail option and all the subsequent openings will be Thumbnailed. Dont know yet what will happen after a forced close down or Windows update restart but just open Thumbnail option once more and you are fine.
BTW the link you have provided gives some info, but not realy up-to-date (starts with 3.X till the most famouw Millenium edition)
Regards,
Koen

 

[ilyad]

According to this link (in Russian)

http://forum.foxclub.ru/read.php?29,257803,266901#msg-266901

you have to manipulate with the registry keys for the particular directory to achieve this functionality.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Koen,

I didn't deserve the star, but thanks anyway.

It is Windows to recall the last-opened-state. So the trick is, open the folder once with Thumbnail option and all the subsequent openings will be Thumbnailed.

Yes, that's correct. But I assumed you wanted this to be part of your application. How can you force your users to manually open the folder and set the thumbnail option?

Mike

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