Launching a search explorer.exe form the command line

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AL4B

I need to launch search window (as with
to "Start" / "Search"). I know it is explorer.exe but I
cannot find the proper command line option.

Thanks
 
Thanks, I know about this knowledge base article, but it
does not tell how to open Explorer.exe in search mode,
like if I press F3 inside Explorer.exe or if I press the
Win+F key combination.
 
AL4B said:
I need to launch search window (as with
to "Start" / "Search"). I know it is explorer.exe but I
cannot find the proper command line option.
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Hi

E.g. like this (creating a temporary VBScript file:

@echo off
echo CreateObject("Shell.Application").FindFiles >%temp%\myff.vbs
cscript.exe //Nologo %temp%\myff.vbs
del %temp%\myff.vbs
 
Thanks, works great!
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Hi

E.g. like this (creating a temporary VBScript file:

@echo off
echo CreateObject("Shell.Application").FindFiles >%temp% \myff.vbs
cscript.exe //Nologo %temp%\myff.vbs
del %temp%\myff.vbs


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AL4B said:
Thanks, I know about this knowledge base article, but it
does not tell how to open Explorer.exe in search mode,
like if I press F3 inside Explorer.exe or if I press the
Win+F key combination.
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cscript /nologo ExplSearch.vbs

'ExplSearch.vbs
Dim objShell
Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("Shell.Application")
objShell.FindFiles

Google is your friend.
http://www.google.com/groups?q=explorer+search+command+line
One of the first resulted in the above code snippet:
http://www.google.com/[email protected]
 
Matthias said:
:




cscript /nologo ExplSearch.vbs

'ExplSearch.vbs
Dim objShell
Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("Shell.Application")
objShell.FindFiles
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Hi

See my other post in this thread for a on-the-fly solution.
 
Thanks
-----Original Message-----


cscript /nologo ExplSearch.vbs

'ExplSearch.vbs
Dim objShell
Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("Shell.Application")
objShell.FindFiles

Google is your friend.
http://www.google.com/groups? q=explorer+search+command+line
One of the first resulted in the above code snippet:
http://www.google.com/groups? [email protected]

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Or, more native cmd way:

type nul > %temp%\1.fnd & start %temp%\1.fnd & del /q /f "%temp%\1.fnd"

:)
Al.
 
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