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Link: Open Folder - Open File
Description
This link will open the File or containing folder of a file name value in the registry. If the value data is simply a folder path then only the Open Folder menu item will be shown.
How to get it
To get this link to work, navigate to any key that has a datavalue that is a file or folder path (however their cannot be any extra characters after the file name, such as ",1"). If the value is the default for the key, you can right click the key and select "Open File", or the value in the right hand pane. If the value is not the default, then you will have to right click on the value in the right hand pane.
Open File
When you select open file, the application gets windows to open the file, this means the file will be opened with whatever the system registered application for the file type is.
Open Folder
When you select Open Folder, Explorer is opened at the folder specified.
Extra
This link will work with registry values that include system identifiers such as %WINNT% and will attempt to expand them.