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You can create a shortcut to open a folder with a certain file selected: 1. Create a shortcut to the file itself. 2. Open the properties of the shortcut (the .lnk file). 3. Add "explorer.exe /select," (without quotes) in front of the path to the file. 4. Put the path to the file in "double quotes". 5. Click OK to save the changed shortcut file. If you were successful, the icon of the shortcut should have changed. I use this for "more gentle" shortcuts to add to my Windows startup folder. I am reminded to open the file at startup, but can do so when I choose, instead of the file being opened directly. This makes startup faster and less confusing, especially if there are several such manually added startup items.
FYI PowerShell can attach/edit a shortcut with the built-in Wscript Shell's CreateShortcut command. If you pass it the path of an existing shortcut, it gets opened for inspection/editing. I use this often to create useful shortcuts in VMs where I don't have binary clipboard access.
3:26 Please don't ever call file contents "machine code" just because it is a binary file (e.g. not human readable). This is not a file that is readable by the computer, it is a binary format that explorer parses and can be parsed by external tools (example: BinaryReader class in C#). This type of file is a custom format handled by a specific application. When people say "machine code" - that is code that is understandable by the CPU. For instance an exe file does contain machine code because it mostly has various CPU instructions in binary which a modern CPU comprehensively understands and can be interpreted, whereas a lnk file is just a binary format that stores information about a shortcut which is manually read by a program (kind of similar to XML or Json and stuff)
@@o0Donuts0o Binary files are basically just bytes of data. So is machine code. It is a way to store data in a convenient way. For example if you want to store a number 240 to a binary file you would use a single UTF 7 char with value 240, which only takes 1 byte but is not human readable. If you send this data to a CPU directly it won't understand it since the lnk file is a binary format specifically parsed by applications manually, but if you send machine code to a CPU like an exe file, it will, because machine code contains things like CPU instructions, opcoses, modrm and other
@@75rxREDSTONE Thanks but I’m really not invested. I’m just said it because of the line “Don’t ever call file contents machine code” as if that one instruction from the internet was enough to stop me from doing it. That is all. Ps, binary is machine code.
You can see how complex shortcuts can get by looking at all the options in the shortcuts section of group policy. Fun fact by the way , that part of group policy is so old it still uses 16 bit icons from NT4.
I first figured out what file type shortcuts were when I backed up my entire C drive to Google Drive. I saw my desktop folder had all of my shortcuts in this weird .lnk format. Thank’s for teaching me about them!
interestingly, on Linux the more or less equivalent of LNK files are .desktop ones, but afaik they are just an object with the target and params pointing to a program (though I think most programs prefer to use symbolic links, which LNK files sort of are anyway)
If I'm not wrong, symlinks and lnk files are distincts objects. Both exist in windows. I think thio made a video about this a while ago. (well, it's the video in the endcard.)
You DO want to change the registry to show .lnk extensions. Malware can disguise itself as a text or image file by simply using a .lnk extension that won't be visible unless you make the change.
7:02 There's a much easier work around (with a small trade of). If you create the shortcut and change the icon of the shortcut to something not in the taskbar then you can pin that even if the target program is the same. I don't know all the mechanism behind it, because I use this to launch FileExplorer in specific folders (actually, I need it to launch a .bat script that launches FE in a given DIR). Hope that helps or at least leads to interesting experimenting
Sometimes you may have a program that you don't want to end for a few hours. EG. Uploading a big video to UA-cam. So to close down the computer in a few hours when your not there, I use a shortcut file to shutdown the computer. Create a few shortcut files, and save them to the desktop. Name it 'Shutdown in 1 hour', 'Shutdown in 2 hours', ... and put the following code in the files. C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -s -f -t 3600 -c "Goodbye Windows. :o(" 3600 = 1 hour. For 2 hours name it 'Shutdown in 2 hours' and edit -t 3600 to -t 7200 To abort shutdown use: C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -a -c "Shutdown has been aborted." For more info type 'shutdown' in a cmd window.
for some info on what these options do, here are the run downs "-s" shutdown "-f" force (basically ignores do you want save the file) "-t" time till shutdown (how long till shutdown in seconds) so "shutdown -s -f -t 60" is saying shutdown computer in 60 seconds
If you have openshell (or classic shell if youre retro) you can add some (or maybe all) of those shell commands into your startmenu and get tons of features. (Im sorry idk the exact name) I have one that lists all of my saved networks and it sticks with the name "Manage Networks" or it might be "Manage Wireless Networks" i dont remember, i cant check either because my laptop is at home, i'm not home yet. I'll be home later this week.
Actually, if you go to a folder where a shortcut file is present, click the address bar, and add \(name of shortcut), it will display the path along with the extension (lnk). For example, if the name of the shortcut file is "This PC", which is present in "C:\Users\Username\Desktop", then it will show the file as "C:\Users\Username\Desktop\This PC.lnk"
If you put the exact path to the program into the shortcut, it will cause problems when you move the program, right? That's the good thing about regular shortcuts: You can move the program and the shortcut will still work
Up until this video i always thought the extension was .ink and just never questioned it. the lowercase L looked like a uppercase i, but LNK as in link makes a lot more sense.
I analyzed malware a coworker received and it started with a .lnk file that appeared to point to a legitimate app but actually ran a script. It took some playing to see the file content and how it worked.
Going off of taskbar icons with the registry, I’ve been trying to create a powershell script to deploy to my users that adds or modified the “Default account” (the settings for this user are copied for all future made users, useful for AD) taskbar icons to remove the windows mail app & ms store app, alongside adding Outlook and Teams. Would you be able to make a similar deep dive into taskbar icons? Would love it!
Now, I was gonna test and see how current Win10 reacts to opening shortcuts whose target has moved or changed name, only to find out that when I rename or move the target file, its shortcut changes the tarhet path and still works! When did this happen, Microsoft? Even when you recycle the rarget file, upon opening the shortcut, you are offered the option to restore the file from the Recycle bin.
i made a python script, that downloads thumbnails of yt subscriptions and use use them as icons of lnk files, that direct to yt channels. this way i can sort my yt subscriptions in different folders. same could bedone with playlists. bing ai wrote all code, just needed few corrections.
on the topic of shortcuts. By default your file context menu "send to" has entries for fax, Bluetooth, to desktop. I remember taking a look at them and noticing they having really specific extensions. Can you maybe dig deeper on these? I think they could be quite interesting especially if customizable
I've been trying to shortcut the Windows "Sound mixer options" for years now, and I can't find a GUID/CLSID, what have you, to do so. Your script doesn't seem to generate a link pointing to it. Any suggestions? :)
Back in the early 2000’s you could rename an .exe to .pif and it changed to a shortcut type icon. You could then right click and press properties and change the icon to any other (like a jpg one) So you could disguise exe’s to look like a jpg.
I've always had my taskbar (including Winn 11) at the top because dropdown menus should drop DOWN, not UP like Win 11 forces you to do without a utility that changes it. On that top taskbar beside the system tray, I've had a Quick Launch bar with nested shortcut items depending on category (Media, Internet, Utilities, etc). Beside that is the Favorites bar with the 50 or so sites I use most. I'll use that setup until the day I die and when Microsoft forces me to do anything different with no app to change it, that'll be the day I switch to Linux and/or a Mac.
Does Windows 10/11 still support the old .pif shortcuts? Back then, there was also an exe called PIFeditor. I think when the .lnk extension was introduced, .pif would work, but you could not create new .pif files or even edit .pif files.
Ah yes, we need special eyeballs to read UTF-8, and letters in UTF-16, inside a binary file. So great you can see it with your naked eyes in notepad. Also in the taskbar, the App ID lets it group with the program, but executable path doesn't work as well for grouping programs in the taskbar
in one of the shell commands there is this: "explorer shell:AppsFolder\c5e2524a-ea46-4f67-841f-6a9465d9d515_cw5n1h2txyewy!App" that opens an uwp file explorer (i think it was meant to be with windows 8, but they never fully programmed it) and it it still in win 10 (and maybe win 11)
My Wish: Right-click on a file and choose "List all shortcuts to this file." In other words, I want to be able to see all of the current shortcuts that are pointing at a specific file. You know how you can trace both dependents and precedents in Excel? Can you do the same with shortcuts?
Maybe I'm just misunderstanding, but can't you just make tons of different shortcuts on the taskbar for the same program? Like I have 2 Firefox's and I didn't do any shenanigans
Hello. One thing microsoft windows has never corrected is when you take a shortcut on the desktop and put it in a folder called tools, the icon image often disappears. Never understood why??
Hello Thio, I bought a new pc with a pre installed Mcfee software on . I dont need this software since I have another subscription. I am held to ransom by trying to remove it, could please help me. I am in Holland.
Why do people still call that stupid special folder "god mode"? God mode would mean you could do something that you can't do otherwise. but you can't. You still are limited to what the currently logged in user can do, it will not become an admin or god with that. That name is just stupid and plain wrong. People may call it "super collection for settings" or "super control panel" or something like that, but definitely not GOD mode!!
@@ThioJoemaybe it was originally a debugging thing while some version of windows was being made and did run with full privileges so that they didn’t have to do anything to check if, say, doing X as a non admin would touch anything you need admin to do. Like check a file that only admin can read
@@nuggynet that’s honestly dumb, why do you need a batch script to run a file? a shortcut can just open it like you would do on the applications location
its good in certain cases if you wanna run stuff with extra argumentrs, especially if you do AI stuff or mining, just make sure to check whats even in the file
You really REALLY sould adapt sponsored products to your channel. You talk WIndows only but bring up charging some strange MacBook for your sponsors, that doesn't fit at all ;)...
Admittedly, that incongruity actually got me to pay more attention. However, it's not a product I need, and so I'm not sure how that would fare for an actually relevant to-be customer.
I'm hoping you're going to do this subject the justice it deserves because it's WAY more complicated than most realise. I'm not sure you're going to have the time in this video to adequately address just how complicated they are. They have their own structure and types and subtypes and with Windows 10 avd later they became even more complicated with Store Apps etc. We'll see how well you do, so good luck. It took me quite a few weeks to understand them purposely and how to create all the different shortcut types. Alas you failed by going off on all sorts of tangents. Interesting video, but not relevant to someone looking for some in-depth knowledge of shortcuts.
@0:44 -- Regarding having Windows show you the ".lnk" file extension. That is why I like the command prompt. You see what you are supposed to see, without dealing with the drama of the GUI running a smoke screen. The same goes for examining the contents of a link file. Via the command prompt, you will see that it is a binary. I use the "less" command, which helps display binaries a litter clearer, especially when you have it omit control characters within the binary file. Note that the "less" command I have is from a GNU related download. It is not included with Windows -- only Bill Gates knows why. Zimmerman's tool is, of course, a far better choice for lnk files, as it was designed for that specific purpose. But "less" is great for general text document perusing and navigating. On a somewhat related subject, there is the"mklink" command, which allows you to make both symbolic links and hard links. Those links can be very useful.
@@gustiaryamasadipramana7 The Windows "more" command is not the equivalent of the "less" command. That is why in both Windows and Linux, the "more" command has been around forever, and the "less" command was introduced decades later. Linux distributions did not always include the "less" command. It was a separate installation. For the last dozen years (perhaps longer), "less" has been included in nearly every Linux distribution. "more" has been available since before Windows -- since the days of DOS. The similarity between "more" and "less" is that they are both "pagers" (they both let you see text output, page by page). That is where their similarity ends. "less" has a multitude of features that have never be part of "more". "less" does far, far more than "more". One example is that "less" will scroll through your file forwards or backwards. That, alone, makes it more desirable than "more". But that is just one of numerous features included in "less". In summary, "more" is not the equivalent of "less". They are miles apart.
This guy is literally just recycling any low hanging fruit to make videos for the SOLE PURPOSE of having a selling platform for this weird suite of internet security products
@@j.a.n.e.nand their excuse is that "it's a joke" saying that as if the joke wasn't spread across thousands of youtube videos and also as if the joke is funny (it isn't)
Random shortcut tip > you can use environment variables in the shortcut path I have a folder where I store my portable apps. I also have a folder with shortcuts to those apps. I added the shortcut folder to the path, this way I can open the portable apps by typing the name of the shortcut in Run... or in start. If I need to move the portable folder or copy it on another machine, I don't need to recreate the shortcuts from scratch, all I have to do is to change the Path in one environment variable and all the shortcuts will be updated.
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You'd think that since this is pinned, it would get the most likes
You can create a shortcut to open a folder with a certain file selected:
1. Create a shortcut to the file itself. 2. Open the properties of the shortcut (the .lnk file). 3. Add "explorer.exe /select," (without quotes) in front of the path to the file. 4. Put the path to the file in "double quotes". 5. Click OK to save the changed shortcut file.
If you were successful, the icon of the shortcut should have changed.
I use this for "more gentle" shortcuts to add to my Windows startup folder. I am reminded to open the file at startup, but can do so when I choose, instead of the file being opened directly. This makes startup faster and less confusing, especially if there are several such manually added startup items.
Oohhhh that’s smart thanks!
godmode was 90% of all tutorials in 2015 i swear
Dreamscape.mp3? CHECK
Notepad? CHECK
Bandicam? CHECK
lets make a tutorial!
xD
9:46 that's the strangest pronunciation of "Canonical" I have ever heard
More proof that this guy has way too many views and advertisers.
FYI PowerShell can attach/edit a shortcut with the built-in Wscript Shell's CreateShortcut command. If you pass it the path of an existing shortcut, it gets opened for inspection/editing. I use this often to create useful shortcuts in VMs where I don't have binary clipboard access.
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3:26 Please don't ever call file contents "machine code" just because it is a binary file (e.g. not human readable). This is not a file that is readable by the computer, it is a binary format that explorer parses and can be parsed by external tools (example: BinaryReader class in C#). This type of file is a custom format handled by a specific application. When people say "machine code" - that is code that is understandable by the CPU. For instance an exe file does contain machine code because it mostly has various CPU instructions in binary which a modern CPU comprehensively understands and can be interpreted, whereas a lnk file is just a binary format that stores information about a shortcut which is manually read by a program (kind of similar to XML or Json and stuff)
Binary files are machine code.
@@o0Donuts0o Binary files are basically just bytes of data. So is machine code. It is a way to store data in a convenient way. For example if you want to store a number 240 to a binary file you would use a single UTF 7 char with value 240, which only takes 1 byte but is not human readable. If you send this data to a CPU directly it won't understand it since the lnk file is a binary format specifically parsed by applications manually, but if you send machine code to a CPU like an exe file, it will, because machine code contains things like CPU instructions, opcoses, modrm and other
@@75rxREDSTONE Thanks but I’m really not invested. I’m just said it because of the line “Don’t ever call file contents machine code” as if that one instruction from the internet was enough to stop me from doing it. That is all.
Ps, binary is machine code.
@@o0Donuts0oim not sure you understand how to spite something
@@o0Donuts0o You really going to argue with the mans that clearly knows more than you about this particular topic?
You can see how complex shortcuts can get by looking at all the options in the shortcuts section of group policy. Fun fact by the way , that part of group policy is so old it still uses 16 bit icons from NT4.
I first figured out what file type shortcuts were when I backed up my entire C drive to Google Drive. I saw my desktop folder had all of my shortcuts in this weird .lnk format. Thank’s for teaching me about them!
interestingly, on Linux the more or less equivalent of LNK files are .desktop ones, but afaik they are just an object with the target and params pointing to a program (though I think most programs prefer to use symbolic links, which LNK files sort of are anyway)
I was thinking this as I found this video… .desktop file inerds of writing them that would mean nothing to someone not writing symlinks/shortcuts
If I'm not wrong, symlinks and lnk files are distincts objects. Both exist in windows. I think thio made a video about this a while ago.
(well, it's the video in the endcard.)
.desktop files are just text files with .desktop extension.
Look Joe, no one, i repeat, no one, goes to their friends and brags about knowing windows shortcuts
speak for yourself
yeah
That’s the joke
I work in IT. Many of my friends work in IT.
This is definitely brag worthy.
i constantly brag about the God folder :D
I think FlyTech made a more In-Depth video about the insides and workings of lnk files.
@@JustPyroYT oh that's why I already knew all of that.
but did they tell you how to steal neighbors wifi?
(throwback to his old old OLD videos)
@@clubcyberia8572 sadly no 😆
You DO want to change the registry to show .lnk extensions. Malware can disguise itself as a text or image file by simply using a .lnk extension that won't be visible unless you make the change.
7:02 There's a much easier work around (with a small trade of). If you create the shortcut and change the icon of the shortcut to something not in the taskbar then you can pin that even if the target program is the same.
I don't know all the mechanism behind it, because I use this to launch FileExplorer in specific folders (actually, I need it to launch a .bat script that launches FE in a given DIR). Hope that helps or at least leads to interesting experimenting
Thio jio always bringing us useful stuff
Sometimes you may have a program that you don't want to end for a few hours. EG. Uploading a big video to UA-cam.
So to close down the computer in a few hours when your not there, I use a shortcut file to shutdown the computer.
Create a few shortcut files, and save them to the desktop.
Name it 'Shutdown in 1 hour', 'Shutdown in 2 hours', ... and put the following code in the files.
C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -s -f -t 3600 -c "Goodbye Windows. :o("
3600 = 1 hour.
For 2 hours name it 'Shutdown in 2 hours' and edit -t 3600 to -t 7200
To abort shutdown use:
C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -a -c "Shutdown has been aborted."
For more info type 'shutdown' in a cmd window.
for some info on what these options do, here are the run downs
"-s" shutdown
"-f" force (basically ignores do you want save the file)
"-t" time till shutdown (how long till shutdown in seconds)
so "shutdown -s -f -t 60" is saying shutdown computer in 60 seconds
these are prolly my favorite videos that you make. its so cool to know this much about something that I otherwise would have never looked into at all
If you have openshell (or classic shell if youre retro) you can add some (or maybe all) of those shell commands into your startmenu and get tons of features. (Im sorry idk the exact name) I have one that lists all of my saved networks and it sticks with the name "Manage Networks" or it might be "Manage Wireless Networks" i dont remember, i cant check either because my laptop is at home, i'm not home yet. I'll be home later this week.
Actually, if you go to a folder where a shortcut file is present, click the address bar, and add \(name of shortcut), it will display the path along with the extension (lnk). For example, if the name of the shortcut file is "This PC", which is present in "C:\Users\Username\Desktop", then it will show the file as "C:\Users\Username\Desktop\This PC.lnk"
You can (or atleast could, not sure if it still works) also open these with 7-Zip, it shows the open with dialog on the shortcut.
If you put the exact path to the program into the shortcut, it will cause problems when you move the program, right?
That's the good thing about regular shortcuts: You can move the program and the shortcut will still work
Up until this video i always thought the extension was .ink and just never questioned it. the lowercase L looked like a uppercase i, but LNK as in link makes a lot more sense.
goldmine video for shortcuts guide especially for newer windows versions
I learned quite a bit about shortcuts! Good video
I analyzed malware a coworker received and it started with a .lnk file that appeared to point to a legitimate app but actually ran a script. It took some playing to see the file content and how it worked.
Going off of taskbar icons with the registry, I’ve been trying to create a powershell script to deploy to my users that adds or modified the “Default account” (the settings for this user are copied for all future made users, useful for AD) taskbar icons to remove the windows mail app & ms store app, alongside adding Outlook and Teams. Would you be able to make a similar deep dive into taskbar icons? Would love it!
Now, I was gonna test and see how current Win10 reacts to opening shortcuts whose target has moved or changed name, only to find out that when I rename or move the target file, its shortcut changes the tarhet path and still works! When did this happen, Microsoft? Even when you recycle the rarget file, upon opening the shortcut, you are offered the option to restore the file from the Recycle bin.
good video, i didnt know that the godmode folder didnt actually have everything!
i made a python script, that downloads thumbnails of yt subscriptions and use use them as icons of lnk files, that direct to yt channels. this way i can sort my yt subscriptions in different folders. same could bedone with playlists. bing ai wrote all code, just needed few corrections.
yay lets listen him explaining all about thing we used everyday 10+ times
on the topic of shortcuts. By default your file context menu "send to" has entries for fax, Bluetooth, to desktop. I remember taking a look at them and noticing they having really specific extensions. Can you maybe dig deeper on these? I think they could be quite interesting especially if customizable
I've been trying to shortcut the Windows "Sound mixer options" for years now, and I can't find a GUID/CLSID, what have you, to do so. Your script doesn't seem to generate a link pointing to it. Any suggestions? :)
Dude for years I believed the extension was Ink like the writing substance. I’ve never understood why. 😅 Well the things you discover along the way…
That was extremely interesting. Link kept for reference and further investigation ;-) Thank you. (I didn't even know about Godmode...)
Back in the early 2000’s you could rename an .exe to .pif and it changed to a shortcut type icon. You could then right click and press properties and change the icon to any other (like a jpg one) So you could disguise exe’s to look like a jpg.
Super useful, thanks for this!!
After having a look on this guy's channel....I wanna say - "windows is crazy"
I've always had my taskbar (including Winn 11) at the top because dropdown menus should drop DOWN, not UP like Win 11 forces you to do without a utility that changes it. On that top taskbar beside the system tray, I've had a Quick Launch bar with nested shortcut items depending on category (Media, Internet, Utilities, etc). Beside that is the Favorites bar with the 50 or so sites I use most. I'll use that setup until the day I die and when Microsoft forces me to do anything different with no app to change it, that'll be the day I switch to Linux and/or a Mac.
Great video, thanks for the tips 👏
Yo, it's actually petty curious and useful really.
Weird but I have 2 chrome shortcuts on windows 11 taskbar. Didn't do anything hacky to get it working
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finally, windows shortcut lore
I'm watching this from my Linux laptop. It's ridiculous how many hacks and quirks there are in Windows.
Does Windows 10/11 still support the old .pif shortcuts?
Back then, there was also an exe called PIFeditor.
I think when the .lnk extension was introduced, .pif would work, but you could not create new .pif files or even edit .pif files.
Ah yes, we need special eyeballs to read UTF-8, and letters in UTF-16, inside a binary file. So great you can see it with your naked eyes in notepad.
Also in the taskbar, the App ID lets it group with the program, but executable path doesn't work as well for grouping programs in the taskbar
in one of the shell commands there is this: "explorer shell:AppsFolder\c5e2524a-ea46-4f67-841f-6a9465d9d515_cw5n1h2txyewy!App" that opens an uwp file explorer (i think it was meant to be with windows 8, but they never fully programmed it) and it it still in win 10 (and maybe win 11)
is showing up on win11 for me
can you create a shortcut that boots directly into safe mode | with network?
this video is so useful
Do not brag in front of your friends! Keep your secrets with you!
please, can you give me the address of the pined apps on the taskbar in File explorer
My Wish: Right-click on a file and choose "List all shortcuts to this file." In other words, I want to be able to see all of the current shortcuts that are pointing at a specific file. You know how you can trace both dependents and precedents in Excel? Can you do the same with shortcuts?
Maybe I'm just misunderstanding, but can't you just make tons of different shortcuts on the taskbar for the same program? Like I have 2 Firefox's and I didn't do any shenanigans
i uninstalled windows subsystem for linux but it still appears as a crappy icon in my computer, and cant get rid of it.
The more we know... Nice tips 👍
if you run a task in task mgr thats a .lnk it will show on the end when you select the shortcut
last time i was this early thiojoe still made trolling videoes😂😭
Hello. One thing microsoft windows has never corrected is when you take a shortcut on the desktop and put it in a folder called tools, the icon image often disappears. Never understood why??
Hello Thio, I bought a new pc with a pre installed Mcfee software on . I dont need this software since I have another subscription. I am held to ransom by trying to remove it, could please help me. I am in Holland.
What about symlinks?
Why do people still call that stupid special folder "god mode"? God mode would mean you could do something that you can't do otherwise. but you can't. You still are limited to what the currently logged in user can do, it will not become an admin or god with that.
That name is just stupid and plain wrong. People may call it "super collection for settings" or "super control panel" or something like that, but definitely not GOD mode!!
It’s just a nickname everyone knows it as now
@@ThioJoemaybe it was originally a debugging thing while some version of windows was being made and did run with full privileges so that they didn’t have to do anything to check if, say, doing X as a non admin would touch anything you need admin to do. Like check a file that only admin can read
I bragged to my friends about Windows shortcuts after watching this video. Alas, I no longer have any friends.
Back when I was in school we would email .lnk files which pointed to eachother, it would crash the PC after they were extracted ☺
Well, I use batch files to run programs instead of shortcuts
@@nuggynet that’s honestly dumb, why do you need a batch script to run a file? a shortcut can just open it like you would do on the applications location
it is easier to do it via a script@@notsilv3r
@@notsilv3r I just do it for some reason. Plus you can actually tell what's in it
its good in certain cases if you wanna run stuff with extra argumentrs, especially if you do AI stuff or mining, just make sure to check whats even in the file
Can I buy that powerbank in the EU?
Anyone have a link to the Microsoft document mentioned in the beginning?
Interesting
stay blessed
Best window for gaming 11 or 10?
Hi!
The only special part of the "godmode" prompt is just the extension and not the name.
Back then shortcut virus is often in most pcs
k'NAHN-i-kuhl
Interesting
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You really REALLY sould adapt sponsored products to your channel. You talk WIndows only but bring up charging some strange MacBook for your sponsors, that doesn't fit at all ;)...
Admittedly, that incongruity actually got me to pay more attention. However, it's not a product I need, and so I'm not sure how that would fare for an actually relevant to-be customer.
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ayo wtf
Hi
Linux is so much simpler
*diabolical laughter*
But do two shortcuts make a longcut?
9 minutes 69420 views, bro fell 📴
I coded a thingy to bypass windows activation forever.
Shortcut is a file? Hold my bear(d), in Linux shortcuts isnt even files at all. (well, NTFS symbolic links is similar)
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still good tho
Pretty sure you just gave someone too much power 😂
Joeeeee
I'm hoping you're going to do this subject the justice it deserves because it's WAY more complicated than most realise. I'm not sure you're going to have the time in this video to adequately address just how complicated they are. They have their own structure and types and subtypes and with Windows 10 avd later they became even more complicated with Store Apps etc.
We'll see how well you do, so good luck. It took me quite a few weeks to understand them purposely and how to create all the different shortcut types.
Alas you failed by going off on all sorts of tangents. Interesting video, but not relevant to someone looking for some in-depth knowledge of shortcuts.
@0:44 -- Regarding having Windows show you the ".lnk" file extension.
That is why I like the command prompt. You see what you are supposed to see, without dealing with the drama of the GUI running a smoke screen.
The same goes for examining the contents of a link file.
Via the command prompt, you will see that it is a binary. I use the "less" command, which helps display binaries a litter clearer, especially when you have it omit control characters within the binary file. Note that the "less" command I have is from a GNU related download. It is not included with Windows -- only Bill Gates knows why.
Zimmerman's tool is, of course, a far better choice for lnk files, as it was designed for that specific purpose. But "less" is great for general text document perusing and navigating.
On a somewhat related subject, there is the"mklink" command, which allows you to make both symbolic links and hard links. Those links can be very useful.
Equivalent less command is already included in windows, it's called "more"
@@gustiaryamasadipramana7 The Windows "more" command is not the equivalent of the "less" command. That is why in both Windows and Linux, the "more" command has been around forever, and the "less" command was introduced decades later.
Linux distributions did not always include the "less" command. It was a separate installation. For the last dozen years (perhaps longer), "less" has been included in nearly every Linux distribution.
"more" has been available since before Windows -- since the days of DOS.
The similarity between "more" and "less" is that they are both "pagers" (they both let you see text output, page by page). That is where their similarity ends.
"less" has a multitude of features that have never be part of "more".
"less" does far, far more than "more".
One example is that "less" will scroll through your file forwards or backwards. That, alone, makes it more desirable than "more". But that is just one of numerous features included in "less".
In summary, "more" is not the equivalent of "less". They are miles apart.
Binary data is not the same as machine code. Do you even know ehat you're talking about?
Get Winaero Tweaker
5th
This guy is literally just recycling any low hanging fruit to make videos for the SOLE PURPOSE of having a selling platform for this weird suite of internet security products
how have you got 100 likes in 11 mins????
9 views bro fell off
9 views in 2 minutes not fall off
Shame on everyone who likes shitty copy pasta comments like this one.
Fr these comments are so annoying@@j.a.n.e.n
@@j.a.n.e.nand their excuse is that "it's a joke" saying that as if the joke wasn't spread across thousands of youtube videos and also as if the joke is funny (it isn't)
Dude you were never on 😂
stop sponsoring this video
Bro fell off. 494 views in 8 minutes.
Bro's liking your comment too 😭
Windows is a mess
Do an episode on crowdstrike please😊
Random shortcut tip > you can use environment variables in the shortcut path
I have a folder where I store my portable apps. I also have a folder with shortcuts to those apps. I added the shortcut folder to the path, this way I can open the portable apps by typing the name of the shortcut in Run... or in start.
If I need to move the portable folder or copy it on another machine, I don't need to recreate the shortcuts from scratch, all I have to do is to change the Path in one environment variable and all the shortcuts will be updated.