Explorer command line options for searching

I'm trying to call the search for files and folders function in a project for college but i don't know the command line for explorer.exe.

I have been able to find /e, /n, /root and /select but none of these is the parameter needed.

Help, Anyone!

 

I don't think there is one. If you open regedit and go to

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\find\ddeexec]
@= "[FindFolder(\ "%l\ ", %I)] "
"NoActivateHandler "=" "

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\find\ddeexec\application]
@= "Folders "

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\find\ddeexec\topic]@= "AppProperties "

You can see that the function opens a DDE conversation with Explorer.

The simple way to launch Find (apart from hitting F3) is to create an empty file called say myfind.fnd and run that or use VBscript:

Code:

'myfind.vbs
Option Explicit
Dim Shell
Set Shell = WScript.CreateObject ( "Shell.Application ")
Shell.FindFiles

Or you should be able to find some source code using Google...

http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,16711,00.html

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...&selm=8km6or$165l$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu&rnum=5

 

Cheers, i went the easy way about it and called a saved search

Thanks a lot, you don't know how big of a pain that was.