Comments on: How to Add “Desktop Background File Location” Option to Desktop Right-Click Menu in Windows 7

By: Chris D

Chris D — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:16:04 +0000

FYI – if copying and pasting the code above, be careful because the blog’s comment system converts quotation marks into “smart quotes”. After pasting the code into a text editor, delete any quotation marks and manually retype them to make sure they are not smart quotes.

By: Chris D

Chris D — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:14:04 +0000

Thanks to the author, this is very helpful.

To make it work with file paths containing spaces, change the following line in WPTargetDir.vbs. Original version:

WshShell.run “explorer.exe” & ” /select,” & strCurWP

Fixed to support spaces:

WshShell.run “explorer.exe” & ” /select,” & chr(34) & strCurWP & chr(34)

Also, if you don’t want to have to hold Shift in order to see the item in the right-click menu, delete this line from add.reg before you import it into your registry:

“Extended”=”"

By: Tiffany McLeod

Tiffany McLeod — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:46:17 +0000

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks so much. I used Autohotkey to assign a hotkey and now I just push a button to open the current desktop wallpaper. Perfect.

By: matt

matt — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:10:52 +0000

As it’s been pointed out, if there are any spaces in the file name or path to the file, this script will bring up the My Documents folder.

And I second the request for displaying the file name. If the folder it’s in has a lot of files, its hard to locate the file.

By: Victor Wilkins

Victor Wilkins — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:22:04 +0000

I’m with Seth – please see if you can have the name of the file displayed in a corner.

This can be done with my screensaver – ssmypics.scr – and it would be a great improvement to the slide show if the name of the file was displayed in that too.

By: harold

harold — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:21:17 +0000

this is excellent! thankyou!

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:31:18 +0000

I frackin love this script. It is exactly what I have been wanting for ages.
It worked for me once, but since then it opens my user folder with My Documents highlighted, instead of going to ‘…/my pictures/art’ like it did before I deleted the folder (see below)….. anyone have any ideas for a fix?

(I extracted to a folder in downloads, moved the .vbs to WINDOWS.
and added the add.reg. Then when I deleted the folder from downloads it stopped working …. so i ran the undo.reg, and tried to start again but looks like i borked it. :( )

By: Garth

Garth — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:52:32 +0000

Thanks – this is great. I have 11 years of digital photos set as a slide show so now I can delete the rubbish shots!

By: Lex

Lex — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:55:25 +0000

Wow, this is great. I have huge collections of pictures that I like to use for backgrounds and as I add more I realize that some of the older pictures are no longer up to the same standards, but with a thousand pictures per directory finding and deleting them has always been a hassle. This not only tells me the file name, but brings me straight to the file’s location. I hope Microsoft throws you some money and adds this as a new feature in a future update. Thanks!!

By: antony G

antony G — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:28:08 +0000

This is brilliant – fantastic work…