XYplorer Beta Club

Probably something everyone already knows but just in case.

One of the problems that I run into frequently is whenever I need to paste a junction link or do certain things, I can't do them because XYplorer is not elevated. To solve that, I went to http://code.kliu.org/misc/elevate/ and extracted elevate.exe into my <xypath> folder (so it's sitting together with XYplorer.exe) and then create a catalog item (or CTB) using the code: And problem solved!

EDIT (July 9, 2014): Fixed an error I made when posting it and also a little fine tuning.

I used that utility myself for a very long time, so I can recommend it. Extremely light and does what it says smoothly, especially concerning commands with many parameters.

I myself have always an elevated instance of XY in the tray, just in case (like you) I need to create a junction or something else. However since recently I do the elevation with this utility, http://rammichael.com/winapiexec , which is even smaller and low-level. In fact, the command to launch something elevated is longer, like but with a cool addition: the resulting UAC prompt is minimized in the taskbar, not interfering (in my case) with the startup process.

winapiexec Dev wrote:winapiexec is a small tool that allows you to run WinAPI functions through command line parameters.

Wow. Where was this gem hiding? Great find!!

Woah! What is this tool?! It's very powerful and directly allows you to use Windows API! Although it might be a bit too powerful for me since I have not really messed around with Win APIs before. Still a nice find! Thanks!