Skin: Neon Space Rainmeter 2014 1.0

[noitguy]

This might be a generall question but as my it knowlege in generall is very limited it may be not.

I use the skin Neon Space Rainmeter 2014 1.0

My question now is how can i change the links behind severall "button"

Lets say the Large Luncher? The Path right now is for example "Link3=%ProgramFiles%\AVAST Software\Avast\AvastUI.exe" i want it to open a certain .exe data with the path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Hearthstone\Hearthstone Beta Launcher.exe"

[jsmorley]

This might be a generall question but as my it knowlege in generall is very limited it may be not.

I use the skin Neon Space Rainmeter 2014 1.0

My question now is how can i change the links behind severall "button"

Lets say the Large Luncher? The Path right now is for example "Link3=%ProgramFiles%\AVAST Software\Avast\AvastUI.exe" i want it to open a certain .exe data with the path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Hearthstone\Hearthstone Beta Launcher.exe"

Seems to me you have sorta answered your own question...

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Link3=C:\Program Files (x86)\Hearthstone\Hearthstone Beta Launcher.exe

or if you prefer to use the environment variable:

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Link3=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Hearthstone\Hearthstone Beta Launcher.exe

[noitguy]

Well as i said my dear sir i am not rly good at this computer thing

On topic, I did use the second one

Link3=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Hearthstone\Hearthstone Beta Launcher.exe

and to my surprise it did work =)


Unfortunually trying to copy that for the other 4 "button" did not work ^^ but i dont just wanna post my "wronk" links and get someone to tell me the right one i would actually like to learn something.

So my first question is does the partition matter? For my last link it was on C this time it is on D, as the partition is not included in the link and another thing that might be a problem is that there are 2 "things" in that folder that have the same name one is the symbol the other one the application.

Thanks in advance

[jsmorley]

What you need is the full "path" to the application you want to run. That might be C:\Program Files\MyApplication\MyApplication.exe or D:\MyApplication\MyApplication.exe or whatever. Certainly the drive or partition letter (C: D:, etc) are an important part of the "path" to the executable.

The easiest way to get this path is to find the .exe executable in Windows Explorer, hold down Shift and right-click the file. In the context menu that pops up, will be a choice "Copy as path". Selecting that will put the full path and name of the file in your Windows clipboard so you can paste it into a skin with Ctrl-V.

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If you have what looks like two of the same application name in a folder, one of them may be a Windows "shortcut", which is a small file that ends with the extension .lnk, or it might be a .dll or .ico or other file type that has the same "name", but a different extension. In almost all cases it will make the most sense to run the .exe executable.

You really should change the default in Windows so you can "see" the extensions for files. That is going to make doing stuff like this easier, and in any case setting that default to hide extensions in Windows is about the dumbest idea they ever had. They would like to "pretend" that extensions don't matter anymore, but they still do. These are the same guys who decided "Metro" was the right user interface for a desktop computer, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Like with "Metro", they have backtracked and changed it in recent Windows 8.1 versions so it doesn't hide ".exe" by default anymore, but still hides other extensions that it can be important to know.

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[balala]

The easiest way to get this path is to find the .exe executable in Windows Explorer, hold down Shift and right-click the file. In the context menu that pops up, will be a choice "Copy as path". Selecting that will put the full path and name of the file in your Windows clipboard so you can paste it into a skin with Ctrl-V.

Jsmorley, thank you for sharing the shift and right-click possibility in Windows Explorer to copy the path of a file. Until now I had no idea about this, but I think it'll ease many thinks for me. It seams that's always something to learn. Thank you!
I know that it has nothing to do with this thread, but I'm happy that I've learned it.