How tooltips most useful shortcut in Windows 10

How tooltips most useful shortcut in Windows 10 -

file shortcuts have been in Windows since Windows 95. A shortcut is simply a link to another file or a folder on the system files from your hard disk or system object. The object they contain a link to is called the target. Shortcut files can be placed anywhere - on your desktop, in the Start menu or pinned to your taskbar. When you hover over a shortcut with the mouse, a tooltip appears. Today we will see how useful these tootlips and display more details about shortcuts instead of just the shortcut comment.

When you hover over a shortcut, you get a tooltip (also known as a tooltip) showing the comment property.

comments and related properties are typically stored on the file system or inside the shortcut file.

shortcut files have the extension .LNK, but it is still hidden by the file explorer. Shortcuts store information such as the target command line hotkey shortcut, the target type, icon, information on whether to run the shortcut as administrator and other information. All this information very useful.
In addition to these classic details, from Windows Vista, the Explorer application can read metadata values ​​for files and folders. The update Explorer application can display this additional information from a very long list of properties described on MSDN.
These metadata properties can be displayed, for example, in the Details pane of the Explorer. Let's see how to show some of the most helpful applicable shortcuts via their tooltips.

This can be done with a simple registry tweak.

1. Open Registry Editor.
2. Navigate to the following registry key:

    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT  .lnk  ShellEx  {00021500-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} 

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3. Right-click the key called {} 00021500-0000-0000-C000-000000000046 and export it as a file for backup purposes. Then, right click again and remove this {00021500-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} subkey.
4. Next go to the following registry path:

    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT  lnkfile 

5. here Create a new value chain and name InfoTip . Set its value data to the next value (you can copy it and paste it into the data of the value of PreviewDetails):

    prop: System.Comment; System.Link.TargetParsingPath; System.ItemFolderPathDisplay 

   See the text following screenshot:

now hover over a shortcut. The result will be as follows :.

Using this simple trick you can tooltips really useful shortcut in Windows 10. In addition to the commentary, it will also show the shortcut target path and the shortcut location

to save time, I prepare files ready to use registry:

Download the registry files

Double click the "activate tooltip.reg custom shortcut "file to enable these extended tooltips. The undo file is included

I recommend you read our previous article on this tip :. How to find the details for shortcuts in Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows 7. It has more technical details of how this tweak works.

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