J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , BillW50 writes:
"Paul" wrote in message
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
When I open "My Computer" - for example with Windows-E, but I notice
it most when downloading something and my browser has "remembered"
somewhere on the wrong drive, so I have to climb the tree up and then
down again or use the My Computer button in the save window* - it
takes a long time, with the torch waving, before it shows me the list
of drives and a couple of things like "my documents". (If done from
Win+E, also shows the webcam.)
I should have said, it _usually_ takes some time. _Sometimes_, it opens
reasonably quickly. And, of course, I haven't determined what makes the
difference.
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I presume it is trying to check for network drives or something,
and/or devices like the webcam. Is there no way it can be told not to
(or whatever solves this)?
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This is as close as I could get. GPEDIT usually has a registry
(If that's group policy editor, ISTR something about it not being there
in XP Home, only Pro.)
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I was looking for some command line magic, and the closest I got was
explorer /root,,
which opens My Computer.
(Though with the noddy "System Tasks/Other Places/Details" interface in
the left pane, rather than the proper tree.)
Unfortunately, my system is behaving OK at the moment - both the above
command from Run, and ordinary Windows-E, opened in about four seconds.
This article shows some command line examples of using GUID to
do the same thing. However, I don't know if it would be possible
to construct a GUID in a flexible way. It wouldn't do you
much good, if you needed to manually include or exclude things.
Like, plug in an extre hard drive, or map a new network share,
then have to "go and fix it" again.
(Open My Computer)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc938892.aspx
%systemroot%\explorer.exe
/e,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
I'm wondering if you misunderstand me? That, from the article, seems to
be "To open Windows Explorer with My Computer selected"; I have no
problem doing that, as Windows-E - or, the My Computer button in the
save window when doing a save (from e. g. Firefox) - do that. It's just
that having _done_ it, there's often a delay before the list of drives
appear.
The drives themselves, if you do properties, either show
"Local Disk" or "Network Drive". But I don't see a way to
ask explorer, on a one-off request, to open just a certain
class of drive. I created a mapped drive on purpose, using
a VM as a source of a share to use, and I couldn't prevent
it from appearing.
Does unassigning the drive letter in disk management solve the problem?
If so, that gives me some ideas.
"the" drive letter? Normally, I'm just using this machine - an XP
netbook, with one physical drive partitioned as C and D (plus maybe a
hidden) - in normal mode, with no USB drives/cards, or network (apart
from the wifi - and there are no other computers on that) plugged in.
It's just that when I hit Win+E, an explorer window opens, but sometimes
there's an appreciable delay - with the torch (flashlight) swinging -
before it settles down. Not a great problem, I can live with it - I just
wondered if there was a known solution! (My suggestion that it might be
looking for network drives was purely a _guess_.)
It's possible I did mis-interpreted the question,
and concentrate too much on Explorer itself (on the
title of the post).
The File Save Dialog, might have some weird
behaviors of its own. Someone at the bottom of
this thread, noticed removing a network bridge
fixed it. So just a modification to networking
itself, can break it.
http://forums.techarena.in/ms-office-support/752499.htm
Maybe there is some difference, between the things
an application remembers, and the main Explorer window ?
Paul