Expression Web: Shortcut doesn't point to an exe file, but I want to use it to edit

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Problem: I have to support users who need to edit web pages. Some of these web pages exist only as textarea controls. Fortunately, there is a firefox plugin that allows the user to open the textarea in a default text editor. Unfortunately, this plugin requires you to point to the EXE file of the text editor you want to invoke.

This is a reasonable requirement, but @#$%^ Microsoft Expression Web is one of those applications whose shortcut .lnk file does not appear to point to a real EXE file. If there is an EXE file somewhere, it's hidden.

Question: How can I locate the actual EXE file so people can configure Microsoft Expression web to be their editor of choice?

Update: I should have emphasized that I was looking for a way to automate this via script or batch file (hence the SO posting, in case anyone's "not-programming-related" spidey sense was tingling).

Dillie-O · Accepted Answer · 2008-12-30 20:50:55Z

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I found my executable in the following location:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Expression\Web Designer\EXPRWD.EXE

I'm not sure if that gives you what you need, but you can always have your users (or programmatically) search for EXPRWD.EXE and go from there.

answered Dec 30, 2008 at 20:50

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