Alias Listing/Launching Tricks

You can now do some special stuff with aliases.

Customize the Appearance:

You can customize the text that gets displayed with each entry by prefacing custom text with |

For example:

Play Solitaire | c:\program files\games\solit.exe

File Window Options:

You can customize the way programs are launching by adding one of a few optional window modifiers to the very end of your file specification:

/winmax

/winmin

/winhid

/closeafter (force farr window to close after launching even if not set to by deafult)

/stayopen (dont close farr window after launching)

/icon=localfilename_from_aliasdir.ico (icon file must be in same dir as the source xml file defining the alias)

/hideifnoexist (hide the result if the file specified does not exist)

/runasadmin (run the file as admin)

/winvermin=M.m (major and minor minimum windows versions required to include alias result)

/winvermax=M.m (major and minor minimum windows versions required to include alias result)

/hint="text here" (shows hint on statusbar when item is selected, instead of showing launch command)

For example:

Play Solitaire | c:\program files\games\solit.exe /WINMAX

You can now specify multiple programs to launch within one alias by separating them with ;;;

See also the #filecontents special virtual string to grab alias results from a file.

See also the help pages on Clipboard Tricks and Alias Action Keywords and Virtual Launch Strings..