Kim Gräsman, 2006
I don't know if it's just me, but sooner or later during the course of the day, I right-click a shortcut, and find my way around to the Find Target... button (or worse, because I've forgotten there is a Find Target button, copy the path portion of the target and explore it).
I figured browsing the target should be a more frequent activity (if you ever want to get into your Visual Studio directories, you know what I mean), and that it should be even easier. There's something about the placement of the Find Target-button that makes me miss it all the time.
So, there I go, and create probably the most pointless shell extension in history: OpenTarget. The major idea is to extend the default context menu of shortcuts to include (you guessed it) "Open Target Folder".
I must have saved myself one mouse-click and one second of confusion (looking dizzily for the Find Target-button) daily. Whoopee!
In version 1.1, I added the ability to configure whether to display the folder tree or not when opening the explorer window. This is controlled by adding an ExecVerb value in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Winwonk\OpenTarget. Legal values are currently open and explore. This .reg script sets the value to open, which means no folder tree.
As of version 1.2, the actual target of the shortcut is now selected when the Explorer window launches.
2006-12-20
2004-07-04
First public release
I made this publicly available in the rare case that someone else is suffering from this problem. If you find any obvious bugs, don't hesitate to contact me, and I will see what I can do to fix things up.
The package will install a single shell extension DLL on your system.