Re: MSH Prompt Here Power Toy Installer

I had to tweak the ACLs on the registry keys to get it to work on my
non-admin account, but other than that it works nicely ;)

Mike

"Keith Hill" <r_keith_hill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eTRUaqU9FHA.1032@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Like the Windows XP Power Toy "Open Command Window Here", this utility
> installs a context menu item into the Windows Explorer context menu for
> drives and folders. The install is a very simple affair. It verifies
> that
> you have MSH installed first, then it creates four reg keys:
>
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\msh
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\msh\command
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\msh
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\msh\command
>
> With the appropriate default values to launch an MSH prompt at the
> particular drive or directory. There's an MshHere.inf file floating
> around
> but INF files are so darn cryptic plus it suffers from a "hard-coded" path
> to msh.exe. This installer grabs the location of msh.exe from the
> registry:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSH\Microsoft.Management.Automation.msh
>
> and uses that to form the command line for the command registry keys
> above.
> For those that are interested I have attached the VS 2005 setup project
> for
> this utility. Load it into VS 2005 and build it to create the setup
> program. I'm still looking for a place to
> host the MSI file. I was rather surprised to find out that MSN Spaces
> blogs don't
> support uploading files. Now if it had been a photo I would have been in
> business.
>
> --
> Keith
>
>
>
>


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