1. Close all open Explorer windows
2. Open Regedit and Task Manager
3. In Task Manager, locate the Windows Explorer process, right-click and End task
4. In Regedit, navigate to, export, and then delete the two keys above.
5. In Task Manager, click File -> Run New Task -> «explorer.exe» to restart the Shell.

Let’s see if that does it.

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I appreciate your help but I decided not to try risking making changes to the Registry (even with a backup) because I am afraid it might impact the document, music and video folder settings which are fine as they are.

If you will allow me to vent a little (and none of it is directed at you, because you have been EXTREMELY helpful). The fact is I find Windows 10 very frustrating overall because it is counter intuitive with many annoyances. It may be feature rich, but it is feature rich for the sake of being feature rich. This is a brand new desktop PC which I got a few months ago with a pretty decent configuration (i7 4790, 4GB video memory and 16GB RAM; Windows 10 pre-loaded). IMHO Windows 10 was not market-ready to begin with and is basically a beta based on my experience. I am considering buying Windows 7 professional and scrap the Windows 10 or I might just install a new system SSD with Windows 7. Virtually 90% of my professional work is done on the PC and I can’t problem-solve every time something is not up to snuff. Currently the biggest problem I experience is that Windows 10 keeps freezing, and every now and then after a few hours of use my internet gets disconnected. I know it has to do with this PC (possibly Windows 10 I think) because my older PC is hooked into the same ISP connection and it works just fine.

This might be a pipe dream on my part, but there is still one thing you help me with i.e. is there any way to customize the File Explorer ribbon i.e.:

1. It would be great if I can get the «New Folder» (under Home) icon to show up in the «View» Menu

2. Make the «View» Menu to show by default instead of having to click on it every time. Actually some of the menus could have been combined e.g. the Home and View menus because there is so much empty space on the File Explorer ribbon.

Thanks once again your help is deeply appreciated, and thanks for «listening».

How to show ALL files in Windows 7 Explorer?

I am pretty sure that in Windows XP, if you go into the Folder Options and then select «Show hidden files, folders and drives» and also uncheck «Hide protected operating system files», then Windows Explorer will show you ALL files.

But that does not appear to be the case in Windows 7 (I am using Ultimate 64-bit). For example, according to this question, Windows 7 has the following 2 directories:

But I cannot find them by just clicking around in Windows Explorer. I can navigate to %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows in Windows Explorer, but then I don’t see a «Recent» directory. I only see a «Recent Items» directory and it does not have the «AutomaticDestinations» and «CustomDestinations» directories.

However, if I copy and paste «%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations» or «%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations» into the Windows Explorer address bar, then it shows me the contents of the directory. But then a couple of odd things happen:

1) Even though I am seeing the contents of %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations, the Windows Explorer address bar shows «Computer > VOLUMENAME (C:) > Users > username > AppData > Roaming > Microsoft > Windows > Recent Items»

2) The left pane of Windows Explorer that shows the file system tree highlights an empty folder (just a folder icon with no name) underneath the «Recent Items» directory.

What is this bizarre behavior, and is there any way to get Windows Explorer to show ALL files/directories?

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:

How can I get this command to execute in C#?

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First argument is an application (explorer.exe), second method argument are arguments of the application you run.

If your path contains comma’s, putting quotes around the path will work when using Process.Start(ProcessStartInfo).

It will NOT work when using Process.Start(string, string) however. It seems like Process.Start(string, string) actually removes the quotes inside of your args.

Here is a simple example that works for me.

Just my 2 cents worth, if your filename contains spaces, ie «c:\My File Contains Spaces.txt», you’ll need to surround the filename with quotes otherwise explorer will assume that the othe words are different arguments.

Using Process.Start on explorer.exe with the /select argument oddly only works for paths less than 120 characters long.

I had to use a native windows method to get it to work in all cases:

Samuel Yang answer tripped me up, here is my 3 cents worth.

Adrian Hum is right, make sure you put quotes around your filename. Not because it can’t handle spaces as zourtney pointed out, but because it will recognize the commas (and possibly other characters) in filenames as separate arguments. So it should look as Adrian Hum suggested.

Notice there should be a comma after /select instead of space..

The most possible reason for it not to find the file is the path having spaces in. For example, it won’t find «explorer /select,c:\space space\space.txt».

Just add double quotes before and after the path, like;

or do the same in C# with

You need to put the arguments to pass («/select etc») in the second parameter of the Start method.

It might be a bit of a overkill but I like convinience functions so take this one:

This is the extension function I use as .Quote():

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Process Explorer v16.32

By Mark Russinovich

Published: April 28, 2020

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Introduction

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you’ll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you’ll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.

The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.

Related Links

• Windows Internals Book The official updates and errata page for the definitive book on Windows internals, by Mark Russinovich and David Solomon.
• Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference The official guide to the Sysinternals utilities by Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis, including descriptions of all the tools, their features, how to use them for troubleshooting, and example real-world cases of their use.

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Runs on:

• Client: Windows Vista and higher (Including IA64).
• Server: Windows Server 2008 and higher (Including IA64).

Installation

Simply run Process Explorer (procexp.exe).

The help file describes Process Explorer operation and usage. If you have problems or questions please visit the Process Explorer forum on Technet.

Note on use of symbols

When you configure the path to DBGHELP.DLL and the symbol path uses the symbol server, the location of DBGHELP.DLL also has to contain the SYMSRV.DLL supporting the server paths used. See SymSrv documentation or more information on how to use symbol servers.

Learn More

Here are some other handle and DLL viewing tools and information available at Sysinternals:

• The case of the Unexplained. In this video, Mark describes how he has solved seemingly unsolvable system and application problems on Windows.
• Handle — a command-line handle viewer
• ListDLLs — a command-line DLL viewer
• PsList — local/remote command-line process lister
• PsKill — local/remote command-line process killer
• Defrag Tools: #2 — Process Explorer In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Larry Larsen show how to use Process Explorer to view the details of processes, both at a point in time and historically.
• Windows Sysinternals Primer: Process Explorer, Process Monitor and More Process Explorer gets a lot of attention in the first Sysinternals Primer delivered by Aaron Margosis and Tim Reckmeyer at TechEd 2010.

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