Opening folder in DOpus from command line

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Hi

I have configured DOpus as Explorer replacement.
I'm trying now to open a specific folder from a batch file using:

%SystemRoot%\exlorer.exe "C:\Temp"

This fails in the way that the folder gets opened in Exlorer.exe instead of DOpus.
If I use the same string in the Run-box in the start menu (Win7), DOpus is used to open the folder.

Is there a way to point to exlorer.exe from the batch files (for users which don't have Dopus) but open the folder in DOpus if it is installed?

Thanks!
Roger

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"C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopusrt.exe" /open "C:\Temp"

or

"C:\Program Files (x86)\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopusrt.exe" /open "C:\Temp"

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Thanks MrC, I'm sure this would work but it won't work for users who don't have DOpus installed.
I'm in an environment where only few people (including me) have DOpus.

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Then try something like:

start c:\windows

Opens DO here, surely will open Explorer where DO is missing (yet o).

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Opens a command prompt window here...

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Where did you type the command? Typing "start C:\windows" directly into the start menu seems to confuse it, but the command works from a command prompt and should also work from whatever you're planning to run it from.

Note that the start command has weird command-line argument parsing if you need to quote the path, because Microsoft are idiots. :slight_smile: If you need to quote the path, you have to add an extra pair of quotes before it, like this:

start "" "C:\Program Files"

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Great! I indeed used quotes around the path and didn't know about the ones before...

Thanks a lot guys!

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Oops, sorry, I hadn't noticed you want a way to open either, depending upon what was installed. Bad reader... Bad.