How do I tell a command in the Context Menu NOT to follow symbolic links

[RickHolt2]

For most commands in the context menu in File Explorer (e.g. Open, Edit, Print, etc.) we want symbolic links to be followed so that the file we actually work on is the target of the symbolic link. This is accomplished in the registry by a command such as:


%SystemRoot%\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1.


I wish to add a command to the context menu which would return the name and directory of the symlink file rather than the target. The registry entry would look something like


xyzfile

shell

showdir

command [%SystemRoot%\bin\showdir.bat "%1"]


I have implemented this and it works well, except it shows the directory of the target, not the symlink file. How can I tell it not to follow the symbolic link?

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