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@Unofficial2048tiles
Ай бұрын
You'd think that since this is pinned, it would get the most likes
@bobknip
Ай бұрын
You can create a shortcut to open a folder with a certain file selected: 1. Create a shortcut to the file itself. 2. Open the properties of the shortcut (the .lnk file). 3. Add "explorer.exe /select," (without quotes) in front of the path to the file. 4. Put the path to the file in "double quotes". 5. Click OK to save the changed shortcut file. If you were successful, the icon of the shortcut should have changed. I use this for "more gentle" shortcuts to add to my Windows startup folder. I am reminded to open the file at startup, but can do so when I choose, instead of the file being opened directly. This makes startup faster and less confusing, especially if there are several such manually added startup items.
@estebanod
Ай бұрын
Oohhhh that’s smart thanks!
@stcm
Ай бұрын
FYI PowerShell can attach/edit a shortcut with the built-in Wscript Shell's CreateShortcut command. If you pass it the path of an existing shortcut, it gets opened for inspection/editing. I use this often to create useful shortcuts in VMs where I don't have binary clipboard access.
@bobanmilisavljevic7857
Ай бұрын
🦾
@cheesemanig
Ай бұрын
godmode was 90% of all tutorials in 2015 i swear
@clubcyberia8572
Ай бұрын
Dreamscape.mp3? CHECK Notepad? CHECK Bandicam? CHECK lets make a tutorial!
@pcc404
Ай бұрын
xD
@claudiu7909
Ай бұрын
Random shortcut tip > you can use environment variables in the shortcut path I have a folder where I store my portable apps. I also have a folder with shortcuts to those apps. I added the shortcut folder to the path, this way I can open the portable apps by typing the name of the shortcut in Run... or in start. If I need to move the portable folder or copy it on another machine, I don't need to recreate the shortcuts from scratch, all I have to do is to change the Path in one environment variable and all the shortcuts will be updated.
@duckdev9447
Ай бұрын
Look Joe, no one, i repeat, no one, goes to their friends and brags about knowing windows shortcuts
@snowiblind
Ай бұрын
speak for yourself
@edwardwhite4074
Ай бұрын
yeah
@ThioJoe
Ай бұрын
That’s the joke
@Steamrick
Ай бұрын
I work in IT. Many of my friends work in IT. This is definitely brag worthy.
@chrisbernecker
Ай бұрын
i constantly brag about the God folder :D
@75rxREDSTONE
Ай бұрын
3:26 Please don't ever call file contents "machine code" just because it is a binary file (e.g. not human readable). This is not a file that is readable by the computer, it is a binary format that explorer parses and can be parsed by external tools (example: BinaryReader class in C#). This type of file is a custom format handled by a specific application. When people say "machine code" - that is code that is understandable by the CPU. For instance an exe file does contain machine code because it mostly has various CPU instructions in binary which a modern CPU comprehensively understands and can be interpreted, whereas a lnk file is just a binary format that stores information about a shortcut which is manually read by a program (kind of similar to XML or Json and stuff)
@o0Donuts0o
Ай бұрын
Binary files are machine code.
@75rxREDSTONE
Ай бұрын
@@o0Donuts0o Binary files are basically just bytes of data. So is machine code. It is a way to store data in a convenient way. For example if you want to store a number 240 to a binary file you would use a single UTF 7 char with value 240, which only takes 1 byte but is not human readable. If you send this data to a CPU directly it won't understand it since the lnk file is a binary format specifically parsed by applications manually, but if you send machine code to a CPU like an exe file, it will, because machine code contains things like CPU instructions, opcoses, modrm and other
@o0Donuts0o
Ай бұрын
@@75rxREDSTONE Thanks but I’m really not invested. I’m just said it because of the line “Don’t ever call file contents machine code” as if that one instruction from the internet was enough to stop me from doing it. That is all. Ps, binary is machine code.
@whamer100
Ай бұрын
@@o0Donuts0oim not sure you understand how to spite something
@Gigaheart
Ай бұрын
@@o0Donuts0o You really going to argue with the mans that clearly knows more than you about this particular topic?
@BNWilliamGaming
Ай бұрын
I first figured out what file type shortcuts were when I backed up my entire C drive to Google Drive. I saw my desktop folder had all of my shortcuts in this weird .lnk format. Thank’s for teaching me about them!
@andljoy
Ай бұрын
You can see how complex shortcuts can get by looking at all the options in the shortcuts section of group policy. Fun fact by the way , that part of group policy is so old it still uses 16 bit icons from NT4.
@lakelimbo
Ай бұрын
interestingly, on Linux the more or less equivalent of LNK files are .desktop ones, but afaik they are just an object with the target and params pointing to a program (though I think most programs prefer to use symbolic links, which LNK files sort of are anyway)
@Atsumari
Ай бұрын
I was thinking this as I found this video… .desktop file inerds of writing them that would mean nothing to someone not writing symlinks/shortcuts
@new_simsons
Ай бұрын
If I'm not wrong, symlinks and lnk files are distincts objects. Both exist in windows. I think thio made a video about this a while ago. (well, it's the video in the endcard.)
@rizkyadiyanto7922
22 күн бұрын
.desktop files are just text files with .desktop extension.
@Mr-Mhmd9
Ай бұрын
That explains why I couldn't run some programs when I accidentally deleted the original shortcut on the Desktop and recreated the shortcut with the actual path from Program files. Great video Joe
@georgeh6856
Ай бұрын
Back in the day, I used OS/2. OS/2 did something I still have not seen any other OS be able to do. In OS/2 when you moved the target file a link was pointing to, OS/2's object model would automatically update the link so that it would never lose track of the target file. In Windows, if the target file got moved, Windows used to show a moving flashlight icon as it searched for the target file. I don't know whether that is still the case. In Linux with the KDE Dolphin file manager, moving the target file will result in a strange behavior where a new zero-length target file will be created where the target file used to be. OS/2 had a very advanced object model. Update: user YS_Production posted a reply that Windows does now track links in Windows.
@whamer100
Ай бұрын
that's actually really interesting, what file system did OS/2 use?
@georgeh6856
Ай бұрын
@@whamer100 HPFS, which Microsoft later based NTFS on for Windows.
@whamer100
Ай бұрын
@@georgeh6856 I'll have to look into that, im very interested to see the similarities now
@sshhacker
Ай бұрын
Based on my understanding, there are two different types of links in linux operating systems (and in other OS's), soft links, and hard links. - Soft links are essentially files which, when read by a program, are resolved to a different path by the OS (how the path is stored varies across OS's). If you were to read a soft link where the original file no longer exists, the program wouldn't be able to find the original content easily, since the file's location wasn't updated in the soft link. - Hard links, on the other hand, are treated as entirely different files, except for the fact that they point to the same set of bytes on the storage medium. Such relations are stored as metadata in a special part of the filesystem. Such links are resolved to the file's actual location in the filesystem, so changing the location of the target file wouldn't affect the link (unlike soft links, how the "file" location is stored in the link depends on the filesystem, rather than the OS). In fact, you could delete the original file, and the data would still be reachable via the new link, since the data wouldn't be overwritten due to the presence of the link. One limitation of hard links is that links cannot traverse across filesystems, meaning that if you linked a file from a USB stick onto your desktop, OS/2 would probably just create a soft link instead.
@YS_Production
20 күн бұрын
I remember the windows flashlight thing (searching for the target of a shortcut that had been moved) never actually found the target, don't know why, I guess it only searched within My Documents and so on... The flashlight thing wouldn't show up for all shortcuts either, not sure what the rule was, but some would straight up say the target file is not at the specified path and that would be it. Now, I was gonna test and see how current Win10 reacts to opening shortcuts whose target has moved or changed name, only to find out that when I rename or move the file, its shortcut changes as well and still works! When did this happen, Microsoft? Even when you recycle the rarget file, upon opening the shortcut, you are offered the option to restore the file from the Recycle bin.
@JustPyroYT
Ай бұрын
I think FlyTech made a more In-Depth video about the insides and workings of lnk files.
@JanV.-hx4vb
Ай бұрын
@@JustPyroYT oh that's why I already knew all of that.
@clubcyberia8572
Ай бұрын
but did they tell you how to steal neighbors wifi? (throwback to his old old OLD videos)
@JanV.-hx4vb
Ай бұрын
@@clubcyberia8572 sadly no 😆
@DarkGamerA
Ай бұрын
Thio jio always bringing us useful stuff
@philipspedding697
Ай бұрын
7:02 There's a much easier work around (with a small trade of). If you create the shortcut and change the icon of the shortcut to something not in the taskbar then you can pin that even if the target program is the same. I don't know all the mechanism behind it, because I use this to launch FileExplorer in specific folders (actually, I need it to launch a .bat script that launches FE in a given DIR). Hope that helps or at least leads to interesting experimenting
@zigafide
Ай бұрын
these are prolly my favorite videos that you make. its so cool to know this much about something that I otherwise would have never looked into at all
@brock2k1
12 күн бұрын
You DO want to change the registry to show .lnk extensions. Malware can disguise itself as a text or image file by simply using a .lnk extension that won't be visible unless you make the change.
@n4kul108
Ай бұрын
He helped me solve a problem i never bothered to do. Pinning a website, to start menu, to open in brave
@MarkAJAgi
Ай бұрын
Sometimes you may have a program that you don't want to end for a few hours. EG. Uploading a big video to KZitem. So to close down the computer in a few hours when your not there, I use a shortcut file to shutdown the computer. Create a few shortcut files, and save them to the desktop. Name it 'Shutdown in 1 hour', 'Shutdown in 2 hours', ... and put the following code in the files. C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -s -f -t 3600 -c "Goodbye Windows. :o(" 3600 = 1 hour. For 2 hours name it 'Shutdown in 2 hours' and edit -t 3600 to -t 7200 To abort shutdown use: C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -a -c "Shutdown has been aborted." For more info type 'shutdown' in a cmd window.
@aceae4210
Ай бұрын
for some info on what these options do, here are the run downs "-s" shutdown "-f" force (basically ignores do you want save the file) "-t" time till shutdown (how long till shutdown in seconds) so "shutdown -s -f -t 60" is saying shutdown computer in 60 seconds
@ckingpro
Ай бұрын
I learned quite a bit about shortcuts! Good video
@RishitAgarwal-
Ай бұрын
Actually, if you go to a folder where a shortcut file is present, click the address bar, and add \(name of shortcut), it will display the path along with the extension (lnk). For example, if the name of the shortcut file is "This PC", which is present in "C:\Users\Username\Desktop", then it will show the file as "C:\Users\Username\Desktop\This PC.lnk"
@iuhere
Ай бұрын
goldmine video for shortcuts guide especially for newer windows versions
@Uns_Maps_8
Ай бұрын
Even your sponsored dialogue is interesting
@popcat2309
Ай бұрын
Love your videos, I am learning so much from these everyday : )
@electricspider2267
Ай бұрын
If you have openshell (or classic shell if youre retro) you can add some (or maybe all) of those shell commands into your startmenu and get tons of features. (Im sorry idk the exact name) I have one that lists all of my saved networks and it sticks with the name "Manage Networks" or it might be "Manage Wireless Networks" i dont remember, i cant check either because my laptop is at home, i'm not home yet. I'll be home later this week.
@Cheezit3916
Ай бұрын
good video, i didnt know that the godmode folder didnt actually have everything!
@ConnorRoss
Ай бұрын
Wow, I literally just bought that ugreen battery to use while traveling, sat at an airport using a phone it charged on the flight over to watch this hahah. I like the flat form factor over the brick one as it fits in backpack compartments nicely.
@YS_Production
20 күн бұрын
Now, I was gonna test and see how current Win10 reacts to opening shortcuts whose target has moved or changed name, only to find out that when I rename or move the target file, its shortcut changes the tarhet path and still works! When did this happen, Microsoft? Even when you recycle the rarget file, upon opening the shortcut, you are offered the option to restore the file from the Recycle bin.
@dvongrad
Ай бұрын
I've always had my taskbar (including Winn 11) at the top because dropdown menus should drop DOWN, not UP like Win 11 forces you to do without a utility that changes it. On that top taskbar beside the system tray, I've had a Quick Launch bar with nested shortcut items depending on category (Media, Internet, Utilities, etc). Beside that is the Favorites bar with the 50 or so sites I use most. I'll use that setup until the day I die and when Microsoft forces me to do anything different with no app to change it, that'll be the day I switch to Linux and/or a Mac.
@priyanshu-prince-k
7 күн бұрын
After having a look on this guy's channel....I wanna say - "windows is crazy"
@defaultuser_0
Күн бұрын
finally, windows shortcut lore
@Santiago-Rj
Ай бұрын
Yo, it's actually petty curious and useful really.
@_SJ
Ай бұрын
Oh.. 👋🏻 Surprise upload 😮 "Canonical Names of Control Panel Items" sounds really Heaven sent 😇
@candyquahogmarshmallow8257
2 күн бұрын
"canon-ickle" lol
@KishkaBluds
Ай бұрын
yay lets listen him explaining all about thing we used everyday 10+ times
@fplancke3336
Ай бұрын
That was extremely interesting. Link kept for reference and further investigation ;-) Thank you. (I didn't even know about Godmode...)
@demerion
Ай бұрын
If you put the exact path to the program into the shortcut, it will cause problems when you move the program, right? That's the good thing about regular shortcuts: You can move the program and the shortcut will still work
@biodigitaljaz
Ай бұрын
Up until this video i always thought the extension was .ink and just never questioned it. the lowercase L looked like a uppercase i, but LNK as in link makes a lot more sense.
@TheOnlyName
Ай бұрын
Super useful, thanks for this!!
@DragoniteSpam
Ай бұрын
When I was a kid I once somehow managed to associate all LNK files to be opened with Windows Explorer, back in Windows XP. That made for an interesting few weeks on the computer until I was able to figure out how to fix it.
@mandai2
29 күн бұрын
Yea back in the day some malware would also mess with .lnk in the registry. I remember 1 way to fix it was to back up the key from another machine and import it with regedit
@jonnysokkoatduckdotcom
Ай бұрын
The people that made these OSes are really smart!
@driZZle_NA
Ай бұрын
Going off of taskbar icons with the registry, I’ve been trying to create a powershell script to deploy to my users that adds or modified the “Default account” (the settings for this user are copied for all future made users, useful for AD) taskbar icons to remove the windows mail app & ms store app, alongside adding Outlook and Teams. Would you be able to make a similar deep dive into taskbar icons? Would love it!
@fostena
Ай бұрын
9:46 that's the strangest pronunciation of "Canonical" I have ever heard
@shawnthomas3802
4 күн бұрын
More proof that this guy has way too many views and advertisers.
@FunctionGermany
Ай бұрын
i know how inodes and hardlinks work on linux which are transparent to software and then there are symlinks which are opaque, but i heard that windows also has similar things other than .lnk shortcurs called junktions or something. would be interesting to learn about that.
@fplancke3336
Ай бұрын
The video he mentions at the end (around 12:44) probably talks about that.
@FunctionGermany
Ай бұрын
@@fplancke3336 oh, you're right i missed that. yeah that video explains everything about that :)
@Roxor128
Ай бұрын
Shortcuts are an amazing hack. They're using files to provide symlinks on file systems that don't have them (ie FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32).
@tutacat
Ай бұрын
Did you try creating a nested shortcut? In windows 10, you can definitely drag multiple shortcuts to the taskbar.
@george-danfulger
Ай бұрын
hey man you are so sweet with that end of yours like go to brag to your friends and such :)) you were so funny!
@michealmorrow1481
Ай бұрын
I love uGreen products. Expensive but high quality.
@vyutanchor9880
Ай бұрын
Dude for years I believed the extension was Ink like the writing substance. I’ve never understood why. 😅 Well the things you discover along the way…
@galzajc1257
Ай бұрын
i made a python script, that downloads thumbnails of yt subscriptions and use use them as icons of lnk files, that direct to yt channels. this way i can sort my yt subscriptions in different folders. same could bedone with playlists. bing ai wrote all code, just needed few corrections.
@samuelld1
Ай бұрын
Great video, thanks for the tips 👏
@NotKnafo
19 күн бұрын
this video is so useful
@jonny.rubber
Ай бұрын
Yes, makes sense now.
@ThePlainEssence
Ай бұрын
I'm watching this from my Linux laptop. It's ridiculous how many hacks and quirks there are in Windows.
@tbg07
Ай бұрын
Incredible video, as always. After the prime times and theo you're my favourite tech ytb, aside low level learning..p
@JorgeLopez-qj8pu
Ай бұрын
ThioJoe you spoil us ❤
@chromebox
Ай бұрын
You didn't include the page you mentioned with all the shell folders. I tried to add it here but my post got deleted!
@ThioJoe
Ай бұрын
Oops you’re right, just added it
@chromebox
Ай бұрын
@@ThioJoe I'm curious Joe, why did you delete my post with that link?
@TheOnlyName
Ай бұрын
@@chromebox He probably didn't, KZitem automatically deletes/flags comments with links
@whamer100
Ай бұрын
@@TheOnlyNameyeah KZitem has a pretty strict filter for comments with URLs in them
@keithw8646
2 күн бұрын
@@ThioJoe great video. I still can’t find the link to the script.
@paulwesley3862
Ай бұрын
on the topic of shortcuts. By default your file context menu "send to" has entries for fax, Bluetooth, to desktop. I remember taking a look at them and noticing they having really specific extensions. Can you maybe dig deeper on these? I think they could be quite interesting especially if customizable
@Korbin0815
Ай бұрын
awesome! thanks!
@MarcioHuser
Ай бұрын
The more we know... Nice tips 👍
@Masterix.
Ай бұрын
This makes me wonder how many forgotten, unused, or non-public APIs Windows still hides 🤔
@tutacat
Ай бұрын
Ah yes, we need special eyeballs to read UTF-8, and letters in UTF-16, inside a binary file. So great you can see it with your naked eyes in notepad. Also in the taskbar, the App ID lets it group with the program, but executable path doesn't work as well for grouping programs in the taskbar
@dominic.h.3363
Ай бұрын
I've been trying to shortcut the Windows "Sound mixer options" for years now, and I can't find a GUID/CLSID, what have you, to do so. Your script doesn't seem to generate a link pointing to it. Any suggestions? :)
@aeriumsoft
Ай бұрын
last time i was this early thiojoe still made trolling videoes😂😭
@ilsavv
Ай бұрын
Do not brag in front of your friends! Keep your secrets with you!
@barbieslegos8885
Ай бұрын
Why is bro the best tech youtuber
@Vikash_1.0
Ай бұрын
We got a whole videos explaining the shortcuts before GTA VI
@Melds
Ай бұрын
I analyzed malware a coworker received and it started with a .lnk file that appeared to point to a legitimate app but actually ran a script. It took some playing to see the file content and how it worked.
@KakatkarAkshay
Ай бұрын
Weird but I have 2 chrome shortcuts on windows 11 taskbar. Didn't do anything hacky to get it working
@SG_01
Ай бұрын
Hmm, odd, these files definitely used to be text files in an ini related format. Though i may be thinking of internet shortcuts
@mikeh7704
Ай бұрын
I bragged to my friends about Windows shortcuts after watching this video. Alas, I no longer have any friends.
@leventehornok9031
Ай бұрын
in one of the shell commands there is this: "explorer shell:AppsFolder\c5e2524a-ea46-4f67-841f-6a9465d9d515_cw5n1h2txyewy!App" that opens an uwp file explorer (i think it was meant to be with windows 8, but they never fully programmed it) and it it still in win 10 (and maybe win 11)
@aceae4210
Ай бұрын
is showing up on win11 for me
@krisr3868
Ай бұрын
One thing you mentioned at around 0:20 is something about specifying whether to run as admin. Is there an actual option for that, or was that intended as a more general example? I've done a lot of work with lnk-files, and I've never managed to encounter such an option. Otherwise, good video.
@HallesHit
Ай бұрын
Good video as always. Will the Windows Troubleshooter ChatGPT be fixed?
@afrikana_tech
Ай бұрын
stay blessed
@ipadize
16 күн бұрын
can you create a shortcut that boots directly into safe mode | with network?
@gigachad6844
23 күн бұрын
As a kid I used to do shutdown -c "you've been hacked" -t 60
@bakakafka4428
Ай бұрын
Anyone have a link to the Microsoft document mentioned in the beginning?
@trusttech9942
Ай бұрын
Interesting
@Bo-11
Ай бұрын
Youre now the smartest "developer" ever
@rubixstars
Ай бұрын
Hi!
@SaMTechs
Ай бұрын
Last day I tried to create a short to startup folder using command prompt and vb script it's creat a file with any extention and I tried to create to other locations that's working, I don't understand why , can you explain and give a solution for that .
@charlesrichards5389
Ай бұрын
My Wish: Right-click on a file and choose "List all shortcuts to this file." In other words, I want to be able to see all of the current shortcuts that are pointing at a specific file. You know how you can trace both dependents and precedents in Excel? Can you do the same with shortcuts?
@electricspider2267
Ай бұрын
Guys! It's CANON! JOE'S GONNA BE IN SMASH!!! WOO!! 9:46 TIMESTAMP
@Filzie1
Ай бұрын
if you run a task in task mgr thats a .lnk it will show on the end when you select the shortcut
@Windows10master
Ай бұрын
please, can you give me the address of the pined apps on the taskbar in File explorer
@bubbles581
Ай бұрын
k'NAHN-i-kuhl
@isaacweingarten
6 күн бұрын
You didn’t talk about symbolic soft links vs hard links and junctions
@Chris-op7yt
Ай бұрын
i uninstalled windows subsystem for linux but it still appears as a crappy icon in my computer, and cant get rid of it.
@YeetTheAn3On
Ай бұрын
nice
@ford1546
Ай бұрын
Hello. One thing microsoft windows has never corrected is when you take a shortcut on the desktop and put it in a folder called tools, the icon image often disappears. Never understood why??
@OmegaRejectz
Ай бұрын
Maybe I'm just misunderstanding, but can't you just make tons of different shortcuts on the taskbar for the same program? Like I have 2 Firefox's and I didn't do any shenanigans
@mandai2
29 күн бұрын
Back when I was in school we would email .lnk files which pointed to eachother, it would crash the PC after they were extracted ☺
@Schauk
Ай бұрын
What about symlinks?
@nuggynet
Ай бұрын
Well, I use batch files to run programs instead of shortcuts
@notsilv3r
Ай бұрын
@@nuggynet that’s honestly dumb, why do you need a batch script to run a file? a shortcut can just open it like you would do on the applications location
@xgui4-studios
Ай бұрын
it is easier to do it via a script@@notsilv3r
@nuggynet
Ай бұрын
@@notsilv3r I just do it for some reason. Plus you can actually tell what's in it
@aeriumsoft
Ай бұрын
its good in certain cases if you wanna run stuff with extra argumentrs, especially if you do AI stuff or mining, just make sure to check whats even in the file
@aryanswiichannel4667
Ай бұрын
Can I buy that powerbank in the EU?
@Lofote
Ай бұрын
Why do people still call that stupid special folder "god mode"? God mode would mean you could do something that you can't do otherwise. but you can't. You still are limited to what the currently logged in user can do, it will not become an admin or god with that. That name is just stupid and plain wrong. People may call it "super collection for settings" or "super control panel" or something like that, but definitely not GOD mode!!
@ThioJoe
Ай бұрын
It’s just a nickname everyone knows it as now
@henrysanecdotes5323
Ай бұрын
@@ThioJoemaybe it was originally a debugging thing while some version of windows was being made and did run with full privileges so that they didn’t have to do anything to check if, say, doing X as a non admin would touch anything you need admin to do. Like check a file that only admin can read
@N1mbuPanii
Ай бұрын
Best window for gaming 11 or 10?
@19watcher86
Ай бұрын
👍
@markbaken84
Ай бұрын
It doesnt always have to be a binairy file. Steams for example makes em and their just plain txt
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