Defrag Tools #175 - Debugging the Network Stack
Description
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder delve into the way the Shell uses the registry to provide the Right-Click behavior of a (File Explorer) Folder.
We add sub-menus to the Directory context menu, allowing a Command Prompt or PowerShell prompt to be opened in the current folder, either elevated and non-elevated.
The registry file created is provided on Andrew's MSDN blog (Where in the API is Andrew Richards?), and the Defrag Tools OneDrive.
Resources:
Enhancing the "Open Command Prompt here" Context Menu experience (Andrew's MSDN blog)
Creating Shortcut Menu Handlers (MSDN)
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The Discussion
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habula Great video. Have been using SHIFT all these years :(. Thanks for the blog post as well :)
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vineelkovvuri Amazing Andrew. You are my hero :)
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LeoJBG Love the new menu design. I cannot seem to get the Windows Subsystem for Linux bash icon to show in the menu's that I have tried to setup. There are also issues with WSL's bash involving working dir and elevation which I will raise on their github if I can get the icon to display. Is there anything special I need to do? I was hoping to use environment variables in the path to make the .reg shareable as the icon is stored in the user profile. The path is %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\lxss\bash.ico
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windev @LeoJBG: I'd just copy bash.ico into c:\windows -- and skip trying to get anything more complex to work.
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Peter Excellent stuff, many thanks! Any chance to get this on entire drives to work as well? Mirror the settings to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\Shell etc.?
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windev @Peter: Yes, just clone it over and it'll work.
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Templaar Is defrag tools going to be continued?
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windev @Templaar:Yes -- definitely are still alive :) We've got a few shoots in edit now.
RS2 end-game kept me (Andrew) too busy to find time for it, Chad's been flying the world a lot to talk to Partners, and //build/ closed the Channel 9 studios (they do 300+ pre-shoots) for weekly shows.
Keep the show ideas coming - to defragtools@microsoft.com -- after 170+, we're running out of tools that haven't been covered -- and that we can find an expert for.
If you'd like to see re-visits (second deep-dive) of certain tools -- we can do that for sure.
And I'm always up for just showing random debugging tips.
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MagicAndre1981 after 170+, we're running out of tools that haven't been covered -- and that we can find an expert for.
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Peter Hi Andrew, thanks for the feedback on cloning over the registry entries, works like a charm! :) Suggestion for another episode: Microsoft's UIA, especially with the tools 'Accessible event Watcher' (accevent) and 'Inspect', not 'mainstream' so to say, but essential for blind and visually handicapped people.
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Benayou Actually, this has been one of the coolest defrag tools presentation. Thanks Andrew.
Nice one. I will share this tweak with some friends.
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Rusty Some of the tools you have reviewed in the past have been updated several times and have some new capabilities such as WPT with flame graphs. Would love to see some new reviews for many of these tools.