{"id":369,"date":"2015-01-25T09:41:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T03:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2015-01-24T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T04:32:52","slug":"wine-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wine-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"Win+E to any folder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lets say\u00a0you have a folder on your Windows PC that you use all the time. \u00a0Daily, hourly, etc. \u00a0Or maybe you have more than one folder you like to access often. \u00a0What&#8217;s the quickest way to open directly to that folder(s)? \u00a0Simple &#8211; a keyboard shortcut that\u00a0opens Windows Explorer directly to a specified\u00a0folder.<\/p>\n<p>But how do you set that? \u00a0Windows doesn&#8217;t offer such a logical and convenient feature (surprise surprise). \u00a0Well aside from the Win + E key that opens Windows Explorer to whatever useless folder it goes to&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Enter your new favorite friend &#8211; Auto HotKey.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-611\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Auto-Hotkey-Windows-Folder.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6\" data-lasso-id=\"280\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-LIbKgjVj\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-611\" src=\"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Auto-Hotkey-Windows-Folder-500x228.jpg\" alt=\"Auto Hotkey can automate lots of windows tasks, including opening Windows Explorer to a specific folder.\" width=\"500\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Auto-Hotkey-Windows-Folder-500x228.jpg 500w, https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Auto-Hotkey-Windows-Folder-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Auto-Hotkey-Windows-Folder.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quickly program keyboard shortcuts to open Windows Explorer directly to a specific directory. Save your self some time and hassle with this quick setup.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>AutoHotkey Specific Windows Explorer Window\u00a0Code<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s this simple:<\/p>\n<pre><code>#e::run explorer.exe {FolderPath}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The # sign implies the Windows key. \u00a0Then pick the letter you&#8217;d like and set it in-place of\u00a0<em>e<\/em>. \u00a0Lastly, set your folder path.<\/p>\n<h2>Real Life AutoHotkey Example<\/h2>\n<p>Set the Windows + D key to open Windows Explorer to the Desktop folder for user\u00a0<em>Frank<\/em>.<\/p>\n<pre><code>#d::run explorer.exe c:\\Users\\Frank\\Desktop<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>That&#8217;s it &#8211; the script is that simple!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lets say\u00a0you have a folder on your Windows PC that you use all the time. \u00a0Daily, hourly, etc. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autohotkey","category-computers","category-development-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Auto-Hotkey-Windows-Folder.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4BbcR-5X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}