My Computer shortcut link

I've been trying to find a way to put a shortcut to My Computer on my RK dock but any click on the dock icon doesn't open an explorer window to My Computer. As far as I can tell, My Computer is a slightly different type of link than regular windows shortcuts coz there's no location to it. If you create a link to your program files for instance, the shortcut is for "C:Program Files" but there's no such C:Something for My Computer. If you create a shortcut from windows to My Computer the link is just "My Computer" but if you then drag this to RK's dock, nothing will happen when you click it.

I hope I've been clear and maybe this is just a limitation of RK Launcher (for now hopefully). Thanks for any help.

#332197

create a shortcut

and right click Dock Item properties,

in Link put this, ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

should work (actually i'm not sure if that'll work cuz if you have Styler and you use button to show directories, click My Computer and look in address bar, you'll see the shortcut i pasted)

#332199

Wow, thanks so much for the quick reply and your solution worked perfectly. I was wondering though why the link is in that format or if you could tell me more how you found it, just for curiosity. Thanks again.

#332344

Links of those format are known as CLSID identifiers, or class identifiers (I suppose I'm adding on the identifier part, otherwise it's being redundant).

" A universally unique identifier (UUID) that identifies a type of Component Object Model (COM) object. Each type of COM object item has its CLSID in the registry so that clients can locate and load the executable code associated with the object(s)."

http://www.geocities.com/izenkov/Ref/Com-clsid.htm

They're basically complicated shortcuts, but more powerful.

-NC

#332345

thx for info, NC

#332363

If you don't want to use the whole entire identifier, RKLauncher also accepts shell:drivefolder as a My Computer link.

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