Find Target Shell Extension

Thank You. You have made my work a lot easier. Keep up the good work.

Open archive, extract DLL file and move it to:

C:\Windows\System32\FindTarget.dll

Open RUN command from StartUp,
paste the command line written below and hit Enter!
Ready Wink | ;)

regsvr32 FindTarget.dll

it's very useful!!

Hi, I just signed to thank the author of this useful tool and share the solution of a little problem I had.

One day I noticed that findtarget and other context menus like winrar stopped working so I installed shellexview tool to find the cause of this.

It turned out to be DWFShellExt Class from Autodesk. I just disabled it and everything is fine.

hi there,

has anyone an idea how i would get this nice tool running under xp64?
the registration succeeds but it wont show up in the popup even after rebooting the machine.

any hints?

thanks
tilo

I've been using this for a few years now on each successive PC I use. It saves me so much time and I wanted to say thanks.

Hi,
If I right click on a shortcut on an expanded start menu, then 'Find Target' the folder containing the file the s/c points to is displayed.

If I right click on a shortcut on the desktop, an explorer window opens displaying the desktop, not the folder containing the file the shortcut points to.

If I right click on a shortcut in an explorer pane, Find Target is not displayed.

David Lawrie (XP Pro).

David A Lawrie

HI~

How to get the route of Shortcut Path??

Can you tell me function or code

Thx!

if the target directory is open in the shell, the window is shown, but the highlighting doesn't work...

[To use the extension, either just regsvr32 it, or . . . . .]

Never having used regsvr32 before I was a little in doubt about what to do but it worked first try (actually 2nd try - had to copy "FindTarget.dll" to System32 folder) and I expect this will be a very valuable tool for me.

Thanks Paul

Bill Hart

(sorry about my unfamiliarity with posting msgs)

the API SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems() does this in much less code.

give it the idlist from the shortcut and away you go.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shopenfolderandselectitems.asp

Chris Guzak (ms)

This call appears to be only for XP or better.

Anything comparable for W2k?

this is built on top of features that do exist in Win2K.
CLSID_ShellWindows/IShellWindows can be used to enumerate open folder
windows and to get to the FolderView (IShellView/IFolderView interfaces)
object that is hosted there. below is some code, with supporting helpers
that demonstrate some of this (some of these helpers are only in XP
but those too can be implemented on top of the shell architecture in Win2K).

---- code that uses shell windows objects and gets a reference to the views in those windows ---

#define IID_PPV_ARG(IType, ppType) IID_##IType,
reinterpret_cast<void**>(static_cast<itype**>(ppType))
#define ARRAYSIZE(a) (sizeof(a)/sizeof(a[0]))

STDAPI DisplayNameOf(IShellFolder *psf, LPCITEMIDLIST pidl, DWORD flags,
PWSTR psz, UINT cch)
{
*psz = 0;
STRRET sr;
HRESULT hr = psf->GetDisplayNameOf(pidl, flags, &sr);
if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
hr = StrRetToBufW(&sr, pidl, psz, cch);
return hr;
}

STDAPI_(DWORD) SHGetAttributes(IShellFolder *psf, LPCITEMIDLIST pidl, DWORD
dwAttribs)
{
// like SHBindToObject, if psf is NULL, use absolute pidl
LPCITEMIDLIST pidlChild;
if (!psf)
{
SHBindToParent(pidl, IID_PPV_ARG(IShellFolder, &psf), &pidlChild);
}
else
{
psf->AddRef();
pidlChild = pidl;
}

DWORD dw = 0;
if (psf)
{
dw = dwAttribs;
dw = SUCCEEDED(psf->GetAttributesOf(1, (LPCITEMIDLIST *)&pidlChild,
&dw)) ? (dwAttribs & dw) : 0;
psf->Release();
}

return dw;
}

STDAPI IUnknown_QueryService(IUnknown* punk, REFGUID guidService, REFIID
riid, void **ppv)
{
*ppv = NULL;
HRESULT hr = E_FAIL;
if (punk)
{
IServiceProvider *psp;
hr = punk->QueryInterface(IID_PPV_ARG(IServiceProvider, &psp));
if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
{
hr = psp->QueryService(guidService, riid, ppv);
psp->Release();
}
}
return hr;
}

STDAPI SHGetIDListFromUnk(IUnknown *punk, LPITEMIDLIST *ppidl)
{
HRESULT hr = E_NOINTERFACE;

*ppidl = NULL;

IPersistFolder2 *ppf;
if (punk && SUCCEEDED(punk->QueryInterface(IID_PPV_ARG(IPersistFolder2,
&ppf))))
{
hr = ppf->GetCurFolder(ppidl);
ppf->Release();
}
return hr;
}

HRESULT SHGetName(LPCITEMIDLIST pidl, DWORD gdnFlags, PTSTR psz, UINT cch)
{
IShellFolder *psfDesktop;
HRESULT hr = SHGetDesktopFolder(&psfDesktop);
if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
{
IShellFolder *psf;
LPCITEMIDLIST pidlChild;
hr = SHBindToParent(pidl, IID_PPV_ARG(IShellFolder, &psf),
&pidlChild);
if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
{
hr = DisplayNameOf(psf, pidlChild, gdnFlags, psz, cch);
}
psfDesktop->Release();
}
return hr;
}

HRESULT ViewFromWebBrowserApp(IWebBrowserApp *pwba, REFIID riid, void **ppv)
{
IShellBrowser* psb;
HRESULT hr = IUnknown_QueryService(pwba, SID_STopLevelBrowser,
IID_PPV_ARG(IShellBrowser, &psb));
if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
{
IShellView* psv;
hr = psb->QueryActiveShellView(&psv);
if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
{
hr = psv->QueryInterface(riid, ppv);
psv->Release();
}
psb->Release();
}
return hr;
}

HWND WindowFromUnk(IUnknown *punk)
{
HWND hwnd = NULL;
IOleWindow *pow;
if (SUCCEEDED(punk->QueryInterface(IID_PPV_ARG(IOleWindow, &pow))))
{
pow->GetWindow(&hwnd);
pow->Release();
}
return hwnd;
}

STDAPI FindWindowByHWND(HWND hwnd, REFIID riid, void **ppv)
{
HRESULT hr = E_FAIL;
*ppv = NULL;

IShellWindows* psw;
if (SUCCEEDED(CoCreateInstance(CLSID_ShellWindows, NULL, CLSCTX_ALL,
IID_PPV_ARG(IShellWindows, &psw))))
{
VARIANT v;
v.vt = VT_I4;

IDispatch *pdispWBA;
for (v.intVal = 0; FAILED(hr) && S_OK == psw->Item(v, &pdispWBA);
v.intVal++)
{
IWebBrowserApp *pwba;
if
(SUCCEEDED(pdispWBA->QueryInterface(IID_PPV_ARG(IWebBrowserApp, &pwba))))
{
HWND hwndWBA;
if (SUCCEEDED(pwba->get_HWND((LONG_PTR*)&hwndWBA)) &&
(hwnd == hwndWBA))
{
hr = ViewFromWebBrowserApp(pwba, riid, ppv);
}
pwba->Release();
}
pdispWBA->Release();
}

psw->Release();
}
return hr;
}

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To: "chrisg" <chris_guzak@msn.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 6:01 PM
Subject: [CodeProject] Re: much easier/more reliable way to do this

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Chris Guzak (ms)

For your information, "Find Target" can also be done with ShellExecute a command line as
"Explorer.exe /e,/select,C:\\Windows\\notepad.exe".

I tried and this works at WinXP. Smile | :)

I'm not sure if it also works at W2K or earlier Windows. Sniff | :^)

I have try to register it with regsvr32 and rebuild the entire project, but it dose not display in the context? Why?

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What about rebooting your system?

the same, not displayed.
I am using win2000 pro, what is your system?

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Revised version with Fix included now available.

Paul, Good job!

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[To use the extension, either just regsvr32 it, or . . . . .]

Never having used regsvr32 before I was a little in doubt about what to do but it worked first try (actually 2nd try - had to copy "FindTarget.dll" to System32 folder) and I expect this will be a very valuable tool for me.

Thanks Paul

Bill Hart

I'm quite annoyed why it isn't registering.
I'm using W2k srv, and not much else.
VC6.

I'm sorry there was a problem with my code.. I loaded it onto another system and discovered I was incorrectly adding the classid to the registry.

Any way to solve it? This function is very useful for me. I hope you can solve it. Thanks for your code.

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