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IsJohnDoe
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Explore With Everything

Post by IsJohnDoe »

The windows context menu has "search with everything" that doesn't seem to do anything. It just adds the path to the search field.
Can you add a "Explore With Everything" context menu, that will open the Everything GUI and jump the folder tree to that location, leaving the search field blank.
void
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Re: Explore With Everything

Post by void »

Show the Folder sidebar to see the Explore in Everything options from within Everything.

If you want to see this context menu in Windows Explorer you'll need to modify your Search in Everything context menu item:
In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
Click the General tab.
Ensure Show Search Everything folder context menu item is checked.
From the Start menu, search for:
regedit

Right click Registry Editor and click Run as administrator.
In the Registry Editor, navigate to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Search Everything...

(
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Search Everything 1.5a...
for the 1.5a alpha version)
Rename this Key to:
Explore in Everything...

Navigate to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Explore in Everything...\command

Change the (default) value to:
"C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -explore "%1"
IsJohnDoe
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Re: Explore With Everything

Post by IsJohnDoe »

Works amazing. :D

Except I'm running the 1.5 Alpha so I had to change the default value to:

"C:\Program Files\Everything 1.5a\Everything.exe" -explore "%1"

Otherwise it does just as I wanted, thank you.