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A collection of software installations scripts for Windows systems that allows you to easily setup and maintain a reverse engineering environment on a VM.
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Configuration: File Explorer in the taskbar opens in the Tools folder #535

Closed Ana06 closed 8 months ago

Ana06 commented 8 months ago

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With https://github.com/mandiant/flare-vm/pull/531, we pin File Explorer in the taskbar. It would be nice if the pinned File Explorer would open in the Tools folder.

emtuls commented 8 months ago

@Ana06 After many trial and errors, I was unable to find a reliable way to make this work.

Windows 10 seems to completely neglect shortcuts that are not directly to applications and creating a shortcut to File Explorer with a Start In: set to the Tools Directory and attempting to pin this also proved unsuccessful.

One method that did manage to work only a single time (although this was not reproduceable), was to add a shortcut to the Tools directory into C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar.

Unfortunately, because this does not seem to be reproduceable, I ruled it out as an option.