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Under the This PC > Menage > Storage > Disk Management > Properties > General the user of Windows can choose a name for a drive When that drive has a - sign in it then the [quick?] list of disk if FC in not displayed properly - as the below GIF attests to it https://i.ibb.co/WxcWvDP/Free-Commander.g...

But they have extension What I am trying to do is to search by an attribute, disregarding the extension And now I see that a way to do this is to leave the File name box completely empty and leave all of the attributes in that i-between state [with a square in their boxes] - but with the exception o...

Either something is not working I am just a stupid user despite couple of years of experience using FC I want to find hidden files. I press CTRL+F and the search window shows up. I write *.* in the File name box in the Location tab. I have the checkbox for the Regular expressions in a not selected s...

Have you tried the following? In the DOS Prompt (if you have it enabled) type the following: Notepad "Name of file in quotes" [...] Works But to many clicks afterwards If you have a bash shell installed, you should be able to create the desired file using touch. Never heard of this And gi...

[...] 3] The icon of extension-less files. There probably is a single place in Registry which tells the whole operating system what is the default icon for unknown / unassigned files That default windows file icon for unknown files is most probably located at %SystemRoot%\System32\shell32.dll A tri...

I have noticed that virtually any BAT file I have, when running ignores completely all of those color GUI settings that I made for those [5] various versions I also have noticed [with the help of HIPS feature of the free COMODO] that when I execute any BAT file, it asks for access to C:\Windows\Syst...

Workaround 1: - Shift+F4 (open editor with new file) - type file name - Alt+F4 (close editor) Nice But not neat, as ALT + F4 is not a comfortable key shortcut to be pressed [while Esc is comfortable] And the initial part of SHIFT + F4 does not work outside FC Workaround 2: - Shift+Ctrl+N (create em...

[As discussed here: https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-a-shell-menu-entry-for-creating-an-extension-less-file/52005/3] By creating a BAT file like this @echo off echo. echo Enter the name of the extension-less file that is to be created echo. set /p FileName=" >" echo. >"%~1%FileNam...

So I have been through this two topics https://freecommander.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=8723&p=35599 https://freecommander.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=11620&p=35603 but they still do not answer to a peculiar question Apparently on the drive C: with Windows 10 installed on has ...

Works fine here with: Parameter: -noexit -command "cd '%ActivDir%'" It seems that running multiple times CMD and / or PowerShell and messing around with them can cause some critical errors in my Windows 10 After reluctantly setting up a Favorite toolbar icon once more from scratch with th...

Open PowerShell in current folder (favorite tool button ): Name: PowerShell Program: powershell.exe Parameter: -noexit -command "cd %ActivDir%" Option "Enclose each selected item with " - UNCHECKED For Admin call: 'With "Run as" dialog' option must be checked It just d...

Interesting idea

And I remember running some tests way back on Windows 7 and while still using HDD - and searching through Windows Explorer was slower for me...

[...] - Parameter: /k "cd /d %ActivDir%" [...] Great How about running this inform of a LNK file? I have the >>Target:<< parameter for my shortcuts set to C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /K "cd /d C:\" C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /K "cd /d C:\" and the both work - in that ...

[...] Command Prompt [...] I have just found this https://freecommander.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=35587#p35587 so this one I got - I am able to run CMD in both ways But the trick of adding >>"cd /d %ActivDir%"<< to the and of >>Parameter:<< apparently does not work for PowerShell as Param...