Unfortunately the Xbox 360 Neighborhood shell extension doesn't officially support creating shortcuts to folders on the console. When I try to use a shortcut to neighborhood, I always get a message saying Catastrophic failure
. There's also no mention of shortcut creation in the documentation.
I've been fiddling around with the shell extension and rundll32.exe
, and I've stumbled upon this unofficial solution:
"C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" "C:\Windows\system32\xeshlext.dll",LaunchExplorer xbox://XDK\DEVKIT\Samples\Dolphin
Replace XDK
with your devkit name and DEVKIT\Samples\Dolphin
with the path to the folder you want to open (note that you must use backslashes here).
You can either create a new shortcut and use the above as the path, or you can create a .bat
file and place the above in it. You can also run this from command prompt, of course.
If you create a shortcut and want the proper icon, you can find the Xbox 360 folder icon in C:\Windows\system32\xeshlext.dll
:
I found this shortcut solution by looking at the registry and examining xeshlext.dll
in a hex editor.