Comments on: Save Downloaded Files From Firefox Browser At The Preferred Location http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/12/15/save-downloaded-files-from-firefox-browser-at-the-preferred-location/ Living Digitally and Electronically Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:08:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: BGD http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/12/15/save-downloaded-files-from-firefox-browser-at-the-preferred-location/comment-page-1/#comment-594082 BGD Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:30:40 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/12/15/save-downloaded-files-from-firefox-browser-at-the-preferred-location/#comment-594082 Taking this one step further, you might have multiple preferred locations. For that purpose you can define the shortcuts in the location dropdown list with the below batch script. Works at least for FF and IE, the automatic code tag locating probably only works in Vista. You can however always manually look it up in the Windows registry and add it in the batch script... <code> @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b %windir%\System32\appmgmt\S-1-5-21-*.') do ( set id=%%a ) :: Manual ID tag setting (uncomment line below and enter correct ID tag): ::set id=S-1-5-21-?????????-??????????-??????????-???? if "%id%"=="" echo Locating ID tag failed, please add ID tag manually in batch file... &pause>nul &exit REG DELETE "HKEY_USERS\%id%\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs" /va /f REG ADD "HKEY_USERS\%id%\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs" /v url1 /t REG_SZ /d "%username%" /f REG ADD "HKEY_USERS\%id%\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs" /v url3 /t REG_SZ /d "%userprofile%\Downloads" /f REG ADD "HKEY_USERS\%id%\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs" /v url4 /t REG_SZ /d "D:\" /f exit </code> Taking this one step further, you might have multiple preferred locations. For that purpose you can define the shortcuts in the location dropdown list with the below batch script. Works at least for FF and IE, the automatic code tag locating probably only works in Vista. You can however always manually look it up in the Windows registry and add it in the batch script…


@echo off
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion

for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b %windir%\System32\appmgmt\S-1-5-21-*.') do ( set id=%%a
)

:: Manual ID tag setting (uncomment line below and enter correct ID tag):
::set id=S-1-5-21-?????????-??????????-??????????-????

if "%id%"=="" echo Locating ID tag failed, please add ID tag manually in batch file... &pause>nul &exit

REG DELETE "HKEY_USERS\%id%\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs" /va /f
REG ADD "HKEY_USERS\%id%\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs" /v url1 /t REG_SZ /d "%username%" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_USERS\%id%\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs" /v url3 /t REG_SZ /d "%userprofile%\Downloads" /f
REG ADD "HKEY_USERS\%id%\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs" /v url4 /t REG_SZ /d "D:\" /f

exit

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