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8 Responses to “Upcoming Start++ changes for 0.3”

1. Ryan Wagner Says:
   February 23rd, 2007 at 1:43 pm

   Thanks for the great tool Brandon! Can’t wait to get my hands on the new release. I think fixing Daniels problem will also fix mine because I want to link to files to open, such as an Excel spreadsheet. I can do it as long as there is no space in the file name, but if there is a space then I get an error (even if I put quotes around the file name).

2. Brandon Says:
   February 23rd, 2007 at 1:53 pm

   Hi Ryan -

   What does the alias you’re trying to create look like? I’d like to make sure it works in the next release.

   As a short term solution, you might want to try using %1 instead of %* and putting the file name in quotes if it has a space.

3. Hedgehog Says:
   February 23rd, 2007 at 3:13 pm

   Thanks for your great tool…it was the first feature I really missed in Vista but now I’m interested in the search commands but they don’t seem to work for me for some reason.
   If I type ‘play shakira’ in the start-menu search bar and press enter it just opens an ordinary search instead of starting the wmp. If I just type ‘play’ it starts at least the wmp? What am I doing wrong? (PC is currently indexing the music-dirs)

4. Ryan Wagner Says:
   February 24th, 2007 at 9:02 am

   @Brandon
   Sorry it took awhile for me to respond, I didn’t see that you had posted a new comment.

   I just tried the newest release and that doesn’t work either with what I want it to do. Basically I want to open a document which is an Excel spreadsheet when I type in a command. The location of the file looks something like this:

   C:\Users\Ryan J. Wagner\Documents\Ryan’s Files\Test.xslx

   I have tried to put quotes around it and it doesn’t seem to do anything…I still receive the “cannot find the specified file” error. Any ideas on how I can get that to work?

   By the way, this should become a Vista Powertoy!

5. Brandon Says:
   February 24th, 2007 at 12:57 pm

   Ryan -

   I created a command called “textdoc” and set the command value to “C:\Users\Brandon\documents\New Text Document.txt” with the quotes, and it launched just fine. I also tried it with characters like periods and single quotes in the path and it still worked fine.

   Are you sure you got the path correct?

6. Ryan Wagner Says:
   February 24th, 2007 at 3:20 pm

   My bad, you’re right. If you look at what I was entering in for the path I had the Excel file extension wrong. It isn’t xslx.

   This should have definitely been a feature that shipped with Vista!

7. Ryan Wagner Says:
   February 24th, 2007 at 3:21 pm

   Oh yeah, and I should mention that I figured out I was using the wrong extension by using Vista’s awesome feature “copy as path” that is available when you Shift-Right Click on a file.

8. Hedgehog Says:
   February 25th, 2007 at 3:05 pm

   If anyone cares….rebooting the PC fixes my previously announced problem.

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