Automatically copy a filename and launch a web search about the file

[Jacques Cartier]

I would like to do it via the explorer context menu when I right-click on the file, possibly with a batch file or VBS ? and add it with "Easy context menu" Did Anyone know a way to do it ? Any help would be appreciated

[Joshua]

13 hours ago, Jacques Cartier said:

I would like to do it via the explorer context menu when I right-click on the file, possibly with a batch file or VBS ? and add it with "Easy context menu" Did Anyone know a way to do it ? Any help would be appreciated

You can add a batch file to your context menu via the following registry edit:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Run Batch script]
@="&Run Batch script"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\Run Batch script\command]
@="\"H:\\BATCH_FILE_PATH\\context-batch.bat\" \"%1\""

Where "&Run Batch Script" is the what you would like to appear in the menu and the second part is the location of the script. 

 

To get a .bat file to google something is to just have it open "https://www.google.com/search?q=YOUR SEARCH HERE" in your choice of web browser, so bang this into .bat to google:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" https://google.com/search?q=hello

You will just need to write the part that takes a file as input, gets it's name and googles it for you

[Jacques Cartier]

14 hours ago, Joshua said:

You will just need to write the part that takes a file as input, gets it's name and googles it for you

Someone on reddit found the solution:

 

Google search any files or folders on your computer. Show/Hide File Extensions.

-Download and install Autohotkey

-Open Notepad

-Copy and paste this code

FileName=%1%
FileName:=RegExReplace(FileName,"&","%26")
FileName:=RegExReplace(FileName,"#","%23")
SplitPath FileName,Name
  Run h t t p s:// www. google. com/ search?q=%Name%

(You have to remove the spaces in Web address)

-Save as "Google Search (Show File Extensions).ahk"

-Close Notepad

-Right-Click on it, Click Compile script.

-Create a shortcut to that and remove the .exe from the shortcut; copy or move that to the "Send to" folder
"C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\"

-Open Notepad

-Copy and paste this code

FileName=%1%
FileName:=RegExReplace(FileName,"&","%26")
FileName:=RegExReplace(FileName,"#","%23")
SplitPath FileName,Name,Dir,Ext,NameNoExt
If InStr(FileExist(FileName),"D") ;Dir?
  Run h t t p s://www. google. com/ search?q=%Name%
Else                              ;File
  Run h t t p s://www. google. com/ search?q=%NameNoExt%

(You have to remove the spaces in Web address)

-Save as "Google Search (Hide File Extensions).ahk"

-Close Notepad

-Right-Click on it, Click Compile script.

-Create a shortcut to that and remove the .exe from the shortcut; copy or move that to the "Send to" folder
"C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\"

-To use the script right-click on any files or folders, Click on "Send to", Click the shortcut.