Re: Seeking "Take me there" feature on file manager

From: Peter Row (***.off_at_bastard_spammers.com)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:26:41 +0100

Hi,

If you do WindowsKey-R or Start menu --> run and then start typing:
c:\

As soon as you type the \ in a drop down list will appear showing all
the directory names, if you continue to type it will narrow this down,
so if I continue the above :
c:\wi

Then it will narrow this list down to c:\windows if I then press tab and
then enter it will fill in the rest, i.e. c:\wi --> tab = c:\windows -->
enter
opens explorer window on the c:\windows directory.

You get the same results by typing into the address bar of windows
explorer or internet explorer.

Bye,
Pete
"Franklin" <franklin_lo@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Franklin <franklin_lo@mail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am looking for a utility to which I provide folder name and
>> it will take me directly to that folder.
>>
>> It could take me using its own file manager or alteratively
>> using Windows Explorer.
>>
>> I suspect that this feature exists in third-party file managers
>> but I can't track it down so easily. Of course, if the utility
>> is freeware then so much the better.
>>
>
> Hi guys, I see that I did not express my needs clearly when I wrote the
> request above.
>
> I should say that I am thinking of a utility which gives only a minimal
> wait
> time, so it would probably already know the structure of the folder tree
> and
> it woul djust take me to the parts I want.
>
> One implementation of what I am thinking about (old Norton Commander for
> DOS) allowed you to put in letters like W and it showed all the folders
> starting with W and then if you made that into FI it showed all the
> folders
> beginning with WI, etc.
>
> I know Total Commander can do it if I get a directory tree and then press
> ALT+letter. But my problem is that I don't always use Total Commander.
>
> And of course, this is not the only way of doing it.
>
> But what I don't want to have to do is wait while Windows Explorer
> laboriously trawls through all the folders in order to see what it can
> match
> to my request.