Making a shortcut on USB flash drive for xplorer² Portable

Mr.Pleasant · Post by **Mr.Pleasant** » 2007 Jul 20, 07:18

what's teh default value of this registry key

Only the default key in there, which is: regedit.exe "%1"
I don't see any full paths in there.

finally i'm sure if you lauch it as a dos command ...

That's right, the dos command works OK.

Post by **nikos** » 2007 Jul 20, 07:32

i've sent you a new portable version please check your email, let's see if that's any better?

Mr.Pleasant · Post by **Mr.Pleasant** » 2007 Jul 20, 08:40

Hi Nikos,

This new version doesn't work either

I can see there is a difference: I don't get the authorisation dialog, so now it start without any prompting, but the registry import fails. Also ">regedit /S path_to_x2settings.reg" in the x2 addressbar fails to import; the same error message in x2
What seems strange to me: Every time x2 starts, it does import that QuickView folder into the registry (like in the screencap. BTW, this doesn't happen with the '>'-addressbar trick).

Mr.Pleasant · Post by **Mr.Pleasant** » 2007 Jul 20, 10:59

You also asked me if 'export settings' still works.
Contrary to your expectation, it does. This is what happens upon selecting 'export settings': I'm being asked for authorisation twice. From the details view in the authorisation dialog, I saw that the one was for exporting (Regedit.exe /E) the xplorer2_UC part, and the other for exporting the xplorer2_UC.global part to the temp folder. After this, the registry was updated with the current settings from x2.

Well, just hoping I'm not driving you crazy.

Post by **nikos** » 2007 Jul 20, 14:16

ok let's try something really silly, use the full path in the addressbar:

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> c:\windows\regedit /S path_to_x2Settings.reg

now what?

Mr.Pleasant · Post by **Mr.Pleasant** » 2007 Jul 20, 14:32

Not silly enough

It is an ineffable command, x2 says...

Mr.Pleasant · Post by **Mr.Pleasant** » 2007 Jul 20, 16:07

One more observation (the last: I won't be working on this vista in the near future). This one surprises me, I don't know if it surprises you too.

When I import a x2settings.reg manually (doubleclicking and authorise it), and then start the portable x2 I'm being asked if the settings in the registry should be overwritten or not. So far so good. If I confirm to overwrite, the starting of x2 causes the settings in the registry to be removed, so that part actually works, although it doesn't import the new settings (except for the Quickview folder). Denying the overwrite, well, then the registry settings stay unharmed (no suprise).

Post by **nikos** » 2007 Jul 20, 16:08

either you don't know how to use computers or your vista is seriously screwed up

do you have access to any other vista?

Mr.Pleasant · Post by **Mr.Pleasant** » 2007 Jul 20, 16:19

do you have access to any other vista?

Hmm, not really, and certainly not regularly :?

Post by **nikos** » 2007 Jul 20, 16:43

last chance: instead of regedit type regedit.EXE in the addressbar, then i give up!

Mr.Pleasant · Post by **Mr.Pleasant** » 2007 Jul 20, 18:47

Sorry, Nikos, I'm not behind that Vista anymore. But actually, I did try some more of those 'really silly' things, like

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> c:\windows\regedit.exe [...etc]

and

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> "c:\windows\regedit" [...etc]

But all to no avail: all ineffable.
I know you'd rather solve it, but I'd suggest we'll leave it here until someone else picks this thread up again.

Thanks for now! 8)