How to Get Windows Vista and 7′s “Open File Location” Option in XP?

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Recently a reader asked us how to add "Open File Location" option in Windows XP? Actually Windows Vista and 7 provide this option in file context menu. Whenever you right-click on a shortcut, you get "Open File Location" option which leads you to the folder containing the original file.

You can get this useful option in Windows XP using a very simple registry hack. Simply download following ZIP file, extract it and run the "Add Open File Location Option in Windows XP.Reg" file to add this option. There is also an Undo file in case you want to remove the option:

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someone

@Ashish:
now i really don't get it. you give me an example of when the patch should help, but in fact, in this example , it will just open not the folder that the shortcut is referring to , but the folder of the shortcut itself, which isn't needed at all, since i'm already there when i look at the shortcut.
rohit das

yep i agree with someone, if the command takes me to the original file to which the shortcut is referring then it would be much better and useful, and i am sure VG will soon find a way to do that also :)
Ashish

@someone:
heeyy now i have exactly got ur point.Absolutely ur rit dude it ll take me to the shortcut and not to the original executable itself...............nice...:-)
someone

so, anybody knows of how to get the other behavior, the one that i wished for? it could really be nice.
Masroor Aijaz

Gr8 VG, You are fantastic.
someone

i just checked what vista does with this built in function, and it does exactly what i wrote - it opens a new window with the target file , meaning that if the shortcuts points to "C:\WINDOWS" , it will open a new explorer window with the address "C:\WINDOWS" .

please add a patch that does it.
Michael Higham

Thanks! I got the "Open File Location" option in Windows XP that was from Windows Vista and 7 from other website.
Michael Higham

Thanks! I got the "Open File Location" option in Windows XP that was from Windows Vista and 7 from other website.
angga

this doesn't work for me.
Arvin V. Malabanan

this one rocks. so many trolls out there saying doesn't work for me. doesn't work for me my ass! thanks VG for this super nice tweak!