Thank you ThioJoe, I kinda forgot how useful editing the "send to" folder is. I have often built song libraries onto removable storage devices and using send to vs drag and drop is so much cleaner a process. The information you provide on this channel is often above my paygrade, but it is always straight forward, concise and thought out. Thanks again.
I just learned about OpenRGB when i looked at your startup programs, total game changer for me, no more bloated RGB Softwares.. Thanks ThioJoe for the unintentional suggestion!
@@Vysair yes and not even a firmware fash make it work. The RMA guy told me that they had ASRock intervention and not even they could fix it... or maybe they didn't care enough so they sent me another board, but I live in Argentina so the board took roughly 6 months to arrive
Re: The Automate/UWP no shortcut option -- That was an issue with Windows 10 as well. For some reason, Microsoft never added that functionality to UWP programs (send to desktop), so you had to do work arounds to get shortcuts outside of their auto-created areas. I think it has something to do with how UWP apps are installed, if I recall, they install to a special ID folder that includes a version suffix or subfolder, so when they update, their path changes .. the UWP store handles the lookup for the active path, but a user created shortcut reduces that to a defined logical path which doesn't update. So it's why you have to do the workaround and create a shortcut to the virtual path the UWP store uses. Other apps like Fusion 360 use a similar system, but don't provide a symbolic / virtual path. I'm surprised they didn't address this in Win11, as I believe they acknowledged the limitation years ago.
Yeah I noticed UWP shortcut refer to some empty exe files in my appdata folder, that redirect to the correct app. So I just created a desktop shortcut of those exe files and it worked.
It's interesting to see history through that path. Quickl Launch is the predecessor of pinning to taskbar before Win7. I also learned that Quick Launch can be used if you install Internet Explorer. I guess it was first targeted toward launching webpages even though you can launch any shortcut there.
@@Chris.Brisson Not really needed as any media file will have "Open with VLC" in the context menu anyway. But, putting HxD there? Now that's very handy.
As an IT Pro I knew that a couple of these folders existed because of your previous clips, but it's good to put them in this context. Definitely keeping in my favorites.
What I love about TJ this is a perfect example, is that even though I knews about them and the CSIDL, I didn't though about some of the usecase he mentioned so I still managed to learn something 🤓 he does that every time, awesome
This is an amazing video. Being a power user, I only used shell:startup since Win8 release (because the autorun folder was simply too far to remember the path). And I'm quiet surprised how many of them are there
The shell: shortcut for the startup folder is a godsend, thanks. I remember when it made sense to be where it is, back when the startmenu was a folder structure, but nowadays that path doesn't make sense anymore. And it always is a pain to find it manually.
With Shell:Programs you can use it to pin steam games to your taskbar. normaly they pin to the steam shourtcut in the taskbar, meaning you have to right click steam to access the shourtcut
I have not had a video filled with such useful information in such a long time, I am probably going to use every single one of these folders on a near daily basis.
As a web developer who uses macOS and Linux across several different devices, I’ve been pretty much completely off Windows for a few years now. But after watching this video and others like it, I realized how weird and fundamentally different of an operating system Windows is. It’s like peering into an alternative universe. Edit: this isn’t a comment on whether Windows is good or not. I think overall the way it does things is fine. But in a world where basically every type of device (except desktop computers) runs some form of Unix-like OS, I find it fascinating that something as fundamentally different as Windows exists.
@@angrysocialjusticewarrior he’s right though. Windows is the only current OS (desktop, server, IoT, phones, etc.) that isn’t a descendant of UNIX. If you limit yourself to desktop towers for personal use, yes sure Windows might have a 80% market share, but that’s merely the surface of the iceberg. Truth is, Windows is not only an oddity, it is a minority, the vast majority of OSes in use on ALL computers is based on UNIX
Linux will never be the mainstream operating system. People are lazy and the vast majority of them will not have the slightest desire to study books or websites to learn how to use Linux. And even if Windows costs a fortune, it will still be the leading operating system because it communicates with the user visually. In the 1990s, I mastered dos to perfection because I wanted to and had to. My adventure with Linux recently lasted a week. And since I'm over 40, I have no desire to learn and this week effectively discouraged me from continuing my adventure with Linux.
2:34 The Apps Folder is especially useful for getting a shortcut for the new Minecraft Launcher on your desktop, because it is a Microsoft Store app now, which is very annoying.
That SendTo is going to be so useful for me. I have HxD installed but there is no easy way to open a file in it without dragging it on, but adding a shortcut to it there will be a game changer
Makes me appreciate Unix where everything is in one large hierarchy of files with the mount points and configuration files elegantly spread around in different places.
I knew half of them. Got to some more through you. Thanks. 👍 The other day I wanted to assign a shortcut to spotify through the extra keys using icue. It wasn't a simple process. I had to create a shortcut on desktop of the app from apps folder and then create a batch file to link it with icue. Situations like these do help to explore hidden folders and features 😅
This might have been more useful at least two decades ago before I completely ditched Windows and moved to Linux. Honestly, Windows' filesystem and special directories are so needlessly convoluted and confusing, and this video only highlights that... if anything, thanks for the reminder of just all of the quality of life improvements I've been enjoying all these years since leaving Windows XP.
@@-ari - The problem... is that @UltraZelda64 is bemoaning his Casio HL4 Calculator (WINDOWS) for not dealing with Inferential Statistics, Graphing 3D Parametric Plots and calculating Linear Regressions... as he's now happily doing with his HP Prime G2 Calculator (LINUX). They are two very different tools for very different audiences. It is understandable that many starting out in Windows may reach a point where what they need to do takes fancy workarounds, such as those in this video (at least, there ARE workarounds... there's that), and realise that they need the Scientific Graphing Calculator of the Operating System world. Just don't get salty when the 'Everyman' system doesn't actually turn out to be for EVERY MAN. They are two different things.
Thio, not sure if you know this but you can type \*username* (with no \) into file paths as a placeholder for the user's username. This also works in batch/cmd script files too
Already know most of them because I love to explore an OS by going around in directories and settings and see what's hidden. That's essentially how I learned to use Linux.
I knew most of them using the literal path, but it's nice to see a quicker way to them. Some might even be exploitable with Group Policy for a more refined end-user experience.
I'm frequently using a batch file that creates a folder with foldername based on the originating files, and having the batch file stationed in shell:SendTo, I can just select multiple files that I wanna separate per folder, right click them, and just hit that batch. Super neat way to organize my movies into its own folder.
Some I knew and a few I had a hunch. But a lot I had no idea about. Good video, very helpful with my MSP work. I can setup environments way more personalized.
Hello how do you access the games that being downloaded from ms store like i meant to access the folder what permission do i need to set? not sayint about the xbox app store.
Thank you Thio. One adition to the Video. There is actualy also a Shell command to navigate to the Taskbar Pinned Folder. It is "shell:User Pinned" 🙂 Great Video as always.
You can mostly get into any windows folder by "Taking Ownership" as they call it... Also, may I inquire as to what exact settings you're using with Rainmeter + Jax Core widget? I'm on Win 11 also and for me whenever I first installed it, it would pop up for a split second when I enabled it then disappeared each time. I asked the discord for help but even the Dev said he has no clue like wow nice help. Didn't even ask me for logs nothing lmao. I even stated I have no problems providing any necessary info to help find a solution but I guess they don't care about Win 1q dude said something about Win 10 I just said screw that I just had to setup 11 AGAIN! Because if a damned BIOS flash that wouldn't let me login to Windows cuz it detected a hardware change from the TPM I think.... That's a lesson guys DO NOT login to your Microsoft account onto your PC only login to "Microsoft Apps only" option. Especially if you have a custom PC you don't want to have to deal with it trust me. Just keep your account as Local (Admin) User (a normal account) so this doesn't happen to you. 😢😂 At least I didn't loose anything, copied my old User folder right back haha.
3:40 not all UWP Apps are on the microsoft store. UWP just means that it can be run on any device running a version of windows 3:51 You can't access it via the explorer, since explorer.exe can't be run as Administrator (Why even? Could you cover that in a video one day?). You can access it with a Terminal run as Administrator or with any explorer that let's you run it as admin. Or you can run takeown /F . or takeown /F {Path to dir} to get acccess with explorer (You have to repeat the process for every folder inside or run it recursively with the /R flag. Don't worry, this won't break anything, since the takeown command only adds the current account for full access, but doesn't affect the original users perms. I've confirmed it with msdn and tested it. But i wouldn't recommend trying anything there, if you don't know exactly what you're doing, since you could break a lot of stuff
Great video Joe! I learned some new shortcuts. I didn't know about quite a few of the apps such as: Quick Assist. I am currently playing Tetra Blocks. I forgot I installed it months ago. I found it in the Apps folder! Now I can play while watching your Adv Win Features Video. Thanks again!
putting this in a reg file gives you the ability to do "open with" on folders, so you don't have to click show more for programs not in the new menu: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\Open With] @={09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}
for the shell startup, once you have the program in the folder, you can use task manager to disable and enable it and see the startup impact on your system
I've been organising my start menu since windows vista and oh man did I feel like I was in control of the universe. Would sit there and just admire my work.
Biggest mind-blown from this video is learning that Power Automate exists. Now I've fallen down a rabbit hole learning how to automate some browser stuff I do
I definitely learned some stuff even after decades of being a Windows user. Thanks. I've always wondered how to change the SendTo folder in particular.
If you want to prevent a shortcut in the Startup folder from running but don't want to delete it, checking the hidden attribute (or Attrib +h) will do that. Also, I've found that shortcuts marked to run as administrator won't launch from Startup--not sure if lowering UAC changes that. I bummed you can hide fonts but you still cannot hide printers (which would be helpful for users at my workplace).
Thank you for another informative and useful video! On a side note: I can really appreciate your effort to provide proper subtitles. I find those very useful. But are you aware that the hard coded captions you also show in some places in your videos are often (partially) obscured by the subtitles? If I want to read those in full I often have to rewind a few seconds and momentarily turn of the subtitles and then turn them back on again. It's just a minor annoyance, but maybe you could place the hard coded captions somewhere else in frame? Just a little bit higher up would suffice.
I learned most of this when I was creating batch files to run emulation directly. So I learned how to add shortcuts to them to the start menu so that search would show them. And I learned the taskbar one because when I reinstalled windows I copied my old user account contents to a new user and my pinned apps weren't there. When I pinned them again they had (2) in the name. So I found them and deleted the old ones and then renamed them.
About the Pinned Task bar. IF you want to look to the properties of the pinned app. just right click the app in the task bar. then right click the name of the app from the menu. Example Notepad++ in pinned taskbar Right click notepad++ icon from the taskbar then a 2-3 menu will popup (Notepad++ and Unpin from Taskbar) rightclick notepad++ then you can view its properties
relating to the shell:send to folder, if you wanna write a batch file or some script for the send to menu, the file being selected (or dragged) is passed in as the first argument (as in, command line argument)
for lazy people this is the taskbar folder that you can copy 😉 C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar
Apps installed from the Microsoft store can end up in the WindowsApps folder even if they aren't UWP. There are multiple packaging formats - APPX for UWP, MSIX for UWP and Win32, MSIXVC for GDK, etc. and barring unusual circumstances they typically go into WindowsApps or a subdirectory of it. On an Xbox console you can actually view information about which packaging format is used, on Windows I'm not sure if there's a way to see it specifically without knowing the particular signs. For example, Win32 and GDK apps generally require full system permissions, which the Microsoft Store lists as having access to all files and system resources. UWP apps are sandboxed and don't have such invasive permissions. Microsoft is working on making it possible to sandbox Win32 apps as well, but I don't think that's generally available yet.
Good video. One small note about *shell:startup* -- this is you LOCAL Autostart folder, meaning it will only work for your user. You can also access SHARED Autostart folder, which will make app autostart for every user, by typing *shell:common startup* Same works with *shell:programs* -- typing *shell:common programs* instead will open SHARED Start menu programs folder, shortcuts in which are visible for every single user.
Thank you ThioJoe, I kinda forgot how useful editing the "send to" folder is. I have often built song libraries onto removable storage devices and using send to vs drag and drop is so much cleaner a process.
The information you provide on this channel is often above my paygrade, but it is always straight forward, concise and thought out. Thanks again.
I just learned about OpenRGB when i looked at your startup programs, total game changer for me, no more bloated RGB Softwares..
Thanks ThioJoe for the unintentional suggestion!
It broke my razer motherboard RGB so I don't recommend it..not even RMA could fix it. They have to send me another motherboard.
@@Sir_Astral so bricking the firmware huh
@@Vysair yes and not even a firmware fash make it work. The RMA guy told me that they had ASRock intervention and not even they could fix it... or maybe they didn't care enough so they sent me another board, but I live in Argentina so the board took roughly 6 months to arrive
@@Sir_AstralHow can software brick your hardware? Is it updating the firmware on the hardware?
yeah it also works on linux that is a plus for me
Shell:appsfolder is the most useful one
Yeah this would’ve saved me many hours if I knew this just a couple weeks ago.
Still good to know for the next time I need to mess with app links
It's the most mac-like one there
Proud to say i knew most of them
You were the chosen one
Proud to say, I knew none of them
let’s see if you can evade the “it’s not that big of a deal” comment
@@raeplaysvalItS nOt A bIg DeAl
Same here!
Re: The Automate/UWP no shortcut option -- That was an issue with Windows 10 as well. For some reason, Microsoft never added that functionality to UWP programs (send to desktop), so you had to do work arounds to get shortcuts outside of their auto-created areas.
I think it has something to do with how UWP apps are installed, if I recall, they install to a special ID folder that includes a version suffix or subfolder, so when they update, their path changes .. the UWP store handles the lookup for the active path, but a user created shortcut reduces that to a defined logical path which doesn't update. So it's why you have to do the workaround and create a shortcut to the virtual path the UWP store uses. Other apps like Fusion 360 use a similar system, but don't provide a symbolic / virtual path.
I'm surprised they didn't address this in Win11, as I believe they acknowledged the limitation years ago.
Yeah I noticed UWP shortcut refer to some empty exe files in my appdata folder, that redirect to the correct app.
So I just created a desktop shortcut of those exe files and it worked.
Yet another indication that microsoft don't care about quality, they're pushing w11 for control
Microsoft? Address technical debt?
I like how the pinned folder still uses IE in the name
Microsoft: 10/10 at naming things coherently
It's interesting to see history through that path. Quickl Launch is the predecessor of pinning to taskbar before Win7. I also learned that Quick Launch can be used if you install Internet Explorer. I guess it was first targeted toward launching webpages even though you can launch any shortcut there.
That "Send To" folder tip was super useful. I've been using Windows and coding since the 90's and wasn't even aware of that one.
Put a shortcut to VLC in your "Send To".
@@Chris.Brisson Not really needed as any media file will have "Open with VLC" in the context menu anyway. But, putting HxD there? Now that's very handy.
@@spudhead169when you "Send to" VLC, there is no audit trail. 😉
@@spudhead169oh gosh, now I have an ideas. You could use it for exe files which usually dont have an "open with" option.
3:17 The power automate shortcut is in WIndows Tools in Start menu app list. You can then normally drag and drop that app's shortcut to desktop.
As an IT Pro I knew that a couple of these folders existed because of your previous clips, but it's good to put them in this context. Definitely keeping in my favorites.
What I love about TJ this is a perfect example, is that even though I knews about them and the CSIDL, I didn't though about some of the usecase he mentioned so I still managed to learn something 🤓 he does that every time, awesome
This is an amazing video.
Being a power user, I only used shell:startup since Win8 release (because the autorun folder was simply too far to remember the path).
And I'm quiet surprised how many of them are there
Great video, but about 2/3 of it had the screen viewer zoomed in too far, making it difficult to see some of the things that were being demonstrated.
Yea i try to consider how much to zoom since many watch on phones
Zoom is fine dawg
The shell: shortcut for the startup folder is a godsend, thanks. I remember when it made sense to be where it is, back when the startmenu was a folder structure, but nowadays that path doesn't make sense anymore. And it always is a pain to find it manually.
yes, very painful
With Shell:Programs you can use it to pin steam games to your taskbar. normaly they pin to the steam shourtcut in the taskbar, meaning you have to right click steam to access the shourtcut
You don't need to do that tho, you can just pin the actual .exe that Steam opens.
If you go to your Steam folder you can find it.
I have not had a video filled with such useful information in such a long time, I am probably going to use every single one of these folders on a near daily basis.
As a web developer who uses macOS and Linux across several different devices, I’ve been pretty much completely off Windows for a few years now. But after watching this video and others like it, I realized how weird and fundamentally different of an operating system Windows is. It’s like peering into an alternative universe.
Edit: this isn’t a comment on whether Windows is good or not. I think overall the way it does things is fine. But in a world where basically every type of device (except desktop computers) runs some form of Unix-like OS, I find it fascinating that something as fundamentally different as Windows exists.
I find it hilarious that you think an OS with 80% market share is an alternate universe. Buddy, it is Mac that is alternate.
@@angrysocialjusticewarrior In the world of web development, Windows is absolutely an alternative. The web runs on Linux.
@@angrysocialjusticewarrior he’s right though. Windows is the only current OS (desktop, server, IoT, phones, etc.) that isn’t a descendant of UNIX. If you limit yourself to desktop towers for personal use, yes sure Windows might have a 80% market share, but that’s merely the surface of the iceberg. Truth is, Windows is not only an oddity, it is a minority, the vast majority of OSes in use on ALL computers is based on UNIX
@@TitusScUnix is depressing. It's the IE6 or Chromium of the web.
Linux will never be the mainstream operating system. People are lazy and the vast majority of them will not have the slightest desire to study books or websites to learn how to use Linux. And even if Windows costs a fortune, it will still be the leading operating system because it communicates with the user visually. In the 1990s, I mastered dos to perfection because I wanted to and had to. My adventure with Linux recently lasted a week. And since I'm over 40, I have no desire to learn and this week effectively discouraged me from continuing my adventure with Linux.
This topic was great. I was actually struggling today on how to put a Microsoft store app on the desktop. Perfect timing 😀
Great tutorial, might want to use properties like %userprofile% or %appdata% just to simplify the path.
Didn't know about these. Always struggled finding the Windows Startup folder as many apps have folders with this name.
2:34 The Apps Folder is especially useful for getting a shortcut for the new Minecraft Launcher on your desktop, because it is a Microsoft Store app now, which is very annoying.
Thanks Thio! Interesting! I can add that these shell paths are also available via WINDOWS + R 😊
I find the Apps & Taskbar Folder most useful. Thanks ❤
Akzidenz-Grotesk is a font from 1898 that is the basis for Helvetica. Weird but cool to see it show up in ThioJoe videos. Wonder where it came from
That SendTo is going to be so useful for me. I have HxD installed but there is no easy way to open a file in it without dragging it on, but adding a shortcut to it there will be a game changer
The gradient image in your thumbnail irresistible attracts
What if you have a shutdown shortcut in startup?
Makes me appreciate Unix where everything is in one large hierarchy of files with the mount points and configuration files elegantly spread around in different places.
I knew half of them. Got to some more through you. Thanks. 👍
The other day I wanted to assign a shortcut to spotify through the extra keys using icue. It wasn't a simple process. I had to create a shortcut on desktop of the app from apps folder and then create a batch file to link it with icue.
Situations like these do help to explore hidden folders and features 😅
This might have been more useful at least two decades ago before I completely ditched Windows and moved to Linux. Honestly, Windows' filesystem and special directories are so needlessly convoluted and confusing, and this video only highlights that... if anything, thanks for the reminder of just all of the quality of life improvements I've been enjoying all these years since leaving Windows XP.
Imagine how much better your life would be if you refrained from needless comments like this.
@@alancooke1131 what's the problem, though? He's just sharing his experience.
@@-ari - The problem... is that @UltraZelda64 is bemoaning his Casio HL4 Calculator (WINDOWS) for not dealing with Inferential Statistics, Graphing 3D Parametric Plots and calculating Linear Regressions... as he's now happily doing with his HP Prime G2 Calculator (LINUX). They are two very different tools for very different audiences. It is understandable that many starting out in Windows may reach a point where what they need to do takes fancy workarounds, such as those in this video (at least, there ARE workarounds... there's that), and realise that they need the Scientific Graphing Calculator of the Operating System world. Just don't get salty when the 'Everyman' system doesn't actually turn out to be for EVERY MAN. They are two different things.
I knew the 3D Models folder, could be a cool way to store your Blender models or CAD files
Great video. I've worked in IT all my career and learned some things here.
Thio, not sure if you know this but you can type \*username* (with no \) into file paths as a placeholder for the user's username. This also works in batch/cmd script files too
Already know most of them because I love to explore an OS by going around in directories and settings and see what's hidden.
That's essentially how I learned to use Linux.
I knew most of them using the literal path, but it's nice to see a quicker way to them. Some might even be exploitable with Group Policy for a more refined end-user experience.
Please never change! Great video as always!
Ive been googling where the startup folder is for so long, never knew there was a shortcut!
I'm frequently using a batch file that creates a folder with foldername based on the originating files, and having the batch file stationed in shell:SendTo, I can just select multiple files that I wanna separate per folder, right click them, and just hit that batch. Super neat way to organize my movies into its own folder.
That's a really clever idea
Some I knew and a few I had a hunch. But a lot I had no idea about. Good video, very helpful with my MSP work. I can setup environments way more personalized.
6:49 You can also install new font from downloading them from internet
This channel is gold
Take Ownership can give you access to UWP folders but it also commonly breaks the apps, so use with caution.
Hello how do you access the games that being downloaded from ms store like i meant to access the folder what permission do i need to set? not sayint about the xbox app store.
This video is, well, the sort of thing I'd expect from someone who was probably born 20 years after Windows first came out.
This can be very useful for me
Great video!
This man is ahead of time, his got the photoshop 2024. Respect
These are so awesome! Thank you, ThioJoe for this info!
That's a lot of useful information...
I believe it took some time and patience to learn all of that...
Respect ❤
Well Done on the Directory Opus!
I knew about the folders, but not the "Shell:folder" method to access them.
Thanks for another useful video!
Thank you Thio. One adition to the Video. There is actualy also a Shell command to navigate to the Taskbar Pinned Folder. It is "shell:User Pinned" 🙂 Great Video as always.
I love when i am in my school depression, but when thiojoe uploads a video it is all over.
You can mostly get into any windows folder by "Taking Ownership" as they call it... Also, may I inquire as to what exact settings you're using with Rainmeter + Jax Core widget? I'm on Win 11 also and for me whenever I first installed it, it would pop up for a split second when I enabled it then disappeared each time. I asked the discord for help but even the Dev said he has no clue like wow nice help. Didn't even ask me for logs nothing lmao. I even stated I have no problems providing any necessary info to help find a solution but I guess they don't care about Win 1q dude said something about Win 10 I just said screw that I just had to setup 11 AGAIN! Because if a damned BIOS flash that wouldn't let me login to Windows cuz it detected a hardware change from the TPM I think.... That's a lesson guys DO NOT login to your Microsoft account onto your PC only login to "Microsoft Apps only" option. Especially if you have a custom PC you don't want to have to deal with it trust me. Just keep your account as Local (Admin) User (a normal account) so this doesn't happen to you. 😢😂 At least I didn't loose anything, copied my old User folder right back haha.
3:40 not all UWP Apps are on the microsoft store. UWP just means that it can be run on any device running a version of windows
3:51 You can't access it via the explorer, since explorer.exe can't be run as Administrator (Why even? Could you cover that in a video one day?). You can access it with a Terminal run as Administrator or with any explorer that let's you run it as admin. Or you can run takeown /F . or takeown /F {Path to dir} to get acccess with explorer (You have to repeat the process for every folder inside or run it recursively with the /R flag. Don't worry, this won't break anything, since the takeown command only adds the current account for full access, but doesn't affect the original users perms. I've confirmed it with msdn and tested it. But i wouldn't recommend trying anything there, if you don't know exactly what you're doing, since you could break a lot of stuff
Great video Joe! I learned some new shortcuts. I didn't know about quite a few of the apps such as: Quick Assist. I am currently playing Tetra Blocks. I forgot I installed it months ago. I found it in the Apps folder! Now I can play while watching your Adv Win Features Video. Thanks again!
putting this in a reg file gives you the ability to do "open with" on folders, so you don't have to click show more for programs not in the new menu:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\Open With]
@={09799AFB-AD67-11d1-ABCD-00C04FC30936}
for the shell startup, once you have the program in the folder, you can use task manager to disable and enable it and see the startup impact on your system
3:44 You can change the owner of probably any file to an user from the security and that allows you to read and write into the folders and files
The "shell:startup" is very cool!!
I've been organising my start menu since windows vista and oh man did I feel like I was in control of the universe. Would sit there and just admire my work.
In Windows 7, you could easily open a lot of those folders from the Start menu using the context (right-click) menu.
Those were the days...
Thanks ThioJoe! Excellent Video, as all your videos! Keep up the good work!
Biggest mind-blown from this video is learning that Power Automate exists. Now I've fallen down a rabbit hole learning how to automate some browser stuff I do
Thank you so much for sharing these! I had no idea about these, I'm going to start using the send to folder especially.
I definitely learned some stuff even after decades of being a Windows user. Thanks. I've always wondered how to change the SendTo folder in particular.
If you want to prevent a shortcut in the Startup folder from running but don't want to delete it, checking the hidden attribute (or Attrib +h) will do that. Also, I've found that shortcuts marked to run as administrator won't launch from Startup--not sure if lowering UAC changes that.
I bummed you can hide fonts but you still cannot hide printers (which would be helpful for users at my workplace).
Thank you. You solved a problem I didn't know I had until now.
Thank you for another informative and useful video!
On a side note: I can really appreciate your effort to provide proper subtitles. I find those very useful. But are you aware that the hard coded captions you also show in some places in your videos are often (partially) obscured by the subtitles? If I want to read those in full I often have to rewind a few seconds and momentarily turn of the subtitles and then turn them back on again. It's just a minor annoyance, but maybe you could place the hard coded captions somewhere else in frame? Just a little bit higher up would suffice.
You can move the subtitles on dekstop. Just drag them.
@@exoticlol TIL! thanks
Makes me appreciate just how much customisable windows is
Amazing video my man!
Thanks for sharing tips and switches, no never knew folders, I'll look into special folder.
I knew some of those folders. But the examples were very informative!
"Directory Opus!" Yeah, I've had it installed since the Amiga days. Great replacement for explorer.
gonna have to look up common startup folder. didn't even occur to me. but the send to folder is game changer for me. thank you.
Did not know about these folders. Thank you.
Useful info, thanks
I learned most of this when I was creating batch files to run emulation directly. So I learned how to add shortcuts to them to the start menu so that search would show them.
And I learned the taskbar one because when I reinstalled windows I copied my old user account contents to a new user and my pinned apps weren't there. When I pinned them again they had (2) in the name. So I found them and deleted the old ones and then renamed them.
About the Pinned Task bar. IF you want to look to the properties of the pinned app. just right click the app in the task bar. then right click the name of the app from the menu.
Example
Notepad++ in pinned taskbar
Right click notepad++ icon from the taskbar
then a 2-3 menu will popup (Notepad++ and Unpin from Taskbar)
rightclick notepad++ then you can view its properties
Excellent information, very useful.
Thank you Thio, Very cool!
Thanks for enhancing my PC skills better.
Finally, you taught me how to remove microsoft edge from my start menu!
Microsoft edge is faster at installing Chrome than Chrome
*The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog*
Surprised Computer Man is now my favorite stock video.
relating to the shell:send to folder, if you wanna write a batch file or some script for the send to menu, the file being selected (or dragged) is passed in as the first argument (as in, command line argument)
Didn't know about most of these!
Awesome video like always
for lazy people this is the taskbar folder that you can copy 😉
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar
Apps installed from the Microsoft store can end up in the WindowsApps folder even if they aren't UWP. There are multiple packaging formats - APPX for UWP, MSIX for UWP and Win32, MSIXVC for GDK, etc. and barring unusual circumstances they typically go into WindowsApps or a subdirectory of it. On an Xbox console you can actually view information about which packaging format is used, on Windows I'm not sure if there's a way to see it specifically without knowing the particular signs. For example, Win32 and GDK apps generally require full system permissions, which the Microsoft Store lists as having access to all files and system resources. UWP apps are sandboxed and don't have such invasive permissions. Microsoft is working on making it possible to sandbox Win32 apps as well, but I don't think that's generally available yet.
col, thats interesting. been using some commands from the video but learned more!
I didn't know I could just type shell:programs in the explorer bar. Good tip.
I knew some of these but really there was alot of things i didnt know about.
btw Great video ThioJoe for the tips :0
I knew about these folders and some not, but I didn't know I could access them so easily!, this will be very useful, tysm ThioJoe!
Great info. Thank you so much
very informative video Bro. Many many Thanks
I didn't know these thank you so much
Knew none of em and will use them all as soon as possible.Nice video @ThioJoe
You can acctually go to properties of taskbar programs by right clicking them, and rightclicking the program that should be at the top of the menu.
Good video. One small note about *shell:startup* -- this is you LOCAL Autostart folder, meaning it will only work for your user. You can also access SHARED Autostart folder, which will make app autostart for every user, by typing *shell:common startup*
Same works with *shell:programs* -- typing *shell:common programs* instead will open SHARED Start menu programs folder, shortcuts in which are visible for every single user.
Did you see the two places where he mentioned exactly these in the video? They followed directly on from the local variant...
Great vid, thanks!
Awesome. I learn something new every day.
SendTo folder is very useful, thanks mate!