I'm happy to report that, at least on my Windows 11 system, the stuttering/incomplete hotstrings issue in the "Metro" Notepad app seems to have completely disappeared following a relatively recent update, without any of the various (unsatisfactory) additional settings that have been suggested here a...

Thank you, @joedf: I'm back, Baby!

Jacques.

Yes, it does work in Win10 for me.

JB

Anybody know whether a similar approach is available to get the path of the directory currently displayed by standard File Open or Save dialogs? Despite the similar appearance, they're not shell window objects, but are they some other sort of object with readable properties?

Thanks.

JB

Perfect, thank you!

That looks great. Crossing my fingers that it still works in Windows 11 (I'll post once I know).

Thanks a LOT for the quick reply!

JB

In Windows 10, capturing the full path to the folder displayed in the active Explorer window was as easy as getting the text content of its address bar using ControlGetText, var, ToolbarWindow323, A which returned something like say Address: C:\Program Files\Common Files , independently of Explorer'...

Are you kidding me?! I must have read that page a hundred times over the decades and never noticed that particular caveat. I guess I've rarely needed the title text to identify windows, relying instead on window IDs, PIDs, and classes, but this time around, it became unavoidable.

Thanks, buddy!

JB

The following command triggers on any dialog of the specified class (typical shell dialogs class #32770) belonging to the process with PID %ePID% (confimed as the correct PID) but regardless of its title text, so not only on the " Save HTML Document " dialog but also the " Font " and " Color " dialo...

Gets rid of unnecessary icons in the resulting executable (the program only uses two icons). Remove those lines if you don't care, or correct the path to wherever you keep ResHacker.exe ("Resource Hacker", from angusj.com)

JB

I thought I'd share this short one: while running, it displays any Explorer item's "classic" extended context menu when the item is double-clicked using the secondary mouse button (right-single-click still has the expected behavior, and right-drag & drop shouldn't be affected). This provides a singl...

Wow, just realized that your first suggestion wasn't working for me because, by a quirk of how I was assembling the Run parameter, there were two spaces between *RunAs and path\shortcut.lnk , which yields a "file not found" error and was the reason I posted the question in the first place. Thanks fo...

Is there a more direct way to launch a shortcut elevated than
i.e. without the help of CMD and without extracting & launching the target of the shortcut? I can't think of any.

JB

Great minds ... That's exactly what I wound up doing, except that I used the more traditional Loop, Parse, ... command (still on v1.1).

Thanks for the reply.

JB

I'm pretty sure Send, {Text}... is one of the things I already tried (based on the documentation's "this improves reliability because the characters are much less dependent on correct modifier state" ) but, if memory serves, the result was a mess that looked nothing like what I was trying to send (I...

Thank you both for all the suggestions. I'll do some testing when I get a chance ... ... but now that I come back to this question with fresh eyes, a simpler thought occurs to me: create a size 0 x 0 button at the expected tabstop position of the picture control (i.e. add the button immediately afte...

I use a hotkey to "paste" the current clipboard contents into the window with focus by sending keystrokes, very useful for app windows that don't support a normal paste function (such as certain remote session windows and consoles), which comes in handy to enter complex passwords, long URLs, etc. wh...

Excellent, Mikey! That'll work very nicely. I'd considered that but using the parent folder with a wildcard (like Loop, Files, C:\* in this case) but that seemed highly inefficient to check for a single file's existence-- totally forgot that a single file can be specified (event though I frequently ...

This may have been reported previously, but some files that manifestly exist (for example C:\pagefile.sys and C:\swapfile.sys) are not detected as existing by FileExist() (which returns an empty string) or even by the old IfExist command, yet are fully recognized by Attrib.exe (which correctly displ...

Thank you both for the replies. Yes, a custom hotkey will do the trick, but what I was wondering was whether there was "Windows native" way (of which I was unaware) to trigger a picture control action, and I guess the answer is no. Microsoft is usually pretty good at making sure that things can be d...