Explorer Default Open Status

[tclanglet@volcano.net]

In Windows Me, I could specify which folder I wanted to
be opened when Explorer was started. How do I do this in
XP?

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

wrote:
> In Windows Me, I could specify which folder I wanted to
> be opened when Explorer was started. How do I do this in
> XP?

Same as Me. Right click the Windows Explorer shortcut and select Properties,
in the Target Line, enter the path to the folder like this:

%systemroot%\\explorer.exe /e, <path to folder>

If you wanted to start in the C:\My Folder\This One, it would look like
this:

%systemroot%\\explorer.exe /e, C:\My Folder\This One

(Note the spaces and comma)
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Ronnie Vernon
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[Ted]

Thanks so very much for the time response. I believe
that I had another way of doing it in Me, but I lost the
instructions. You directions worked wonderfully for XP.

Ted Langlet

>-----Original Message-----
wrote:
>> In Windows Me, I could specify which folder I wanted to
>> be opened when Explorer was started. How do I do this
in
>> XP?
>
>Same as Me. Right click the Windows Explorer shortcut
and select Properties,
>in the Target Line, enter the path to the folder like
this:
>
>%systemroot%\\explorer.exe /e, <path to folder>
>
>If you wanted to start in the C:\My Folder\This One, it
would look like
>this:
>
>%systemroot%\\explorer.exe /e, C:\My Folder\This One
>
>(Note the spaces and comma)
>--
>Ronnie Vernon
>Microsoft MVP-Windows Shell/User
>
>Please reply to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
>http://www.dts-l.org
>http://www.mvps.org
>
>
>
>.
>

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Ted wrote:
> Thanks so very much for the time response. I believe
> that I had another way of doing it in Me, but I lost the
> instructions. You directions worked wonderfully for XP.
>
> Ted Langlet
>

Ted

Your Welcome and I'm glad this helped. Enjoy. :)
--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP-Windows Shell/User

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