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Open Windows Explorer to a specific folder
I know this is not a new question, but I've been unable to find the
answer to my very specific request, as follows: When I right click on the Start menu, select Explore and left click, I would like Windows Explorer to open to a folder of my choosing. Every one of the many solutions I've found on the Web either: 1) have you create a shortcut and click on it, or 2) have you modify the properties of the Start/Programs/Accessories/Windows Explorer shortcut which already exists. Either one of those I can do. That's not what I want. What I want to do is right-click on Start, select Explore, left click and Windows Explorer opens to a folder of my choosing. If this is not possible, please let me know so that I'll stop looking. :-) Thanks in advance, Carl |
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Carl used his keyboard to write :
When I right click on the Start menu, select Explore and left click, I would like Windows Explorer to open to a folder of my choosing. I'm not sure how to change the Explore-item itself, but you can add another entry to the menu - put the text between the dashed lines below into a .reg file and execute: ------------------------------------------- Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\explorefolder] @="Explore F:" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\explorefolder\co mmand] @="explorer.exe /e,f:\\" ------------------------------------------- -- /klaus |
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In message , Klaus Jorgensen
writes: Carl used his keyboard to write : When I right click on the Start menu, select Explore and left click, I would like Windows Explorer to open to a folder of my choosing. I'm not sure how to change the Explore-item itself, but you can add another entry to the menu - put the text between the dashed lines below into a .reg file and execute: ------------------------------------------- Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\explorefolder] @="Explore F:" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\explorefolder\co mmand] /e,f:\\" ------------------------------------------- Ingenious! And useful to know. (I'm assuming this _does_ add to the right-click-on-Start menu which the OP asked about.) Others may also have forgotten that Windows-key-plus-E opens Explorer at the root, rather than the awkward place (C:\Docs ...\me\Start Menu) that right-click explore does open. (Why there was chosen has always baffled me. No, actually, I can see it's just a special case of the right-click explore option available anywhere - but I've always found it an un-useful place to start, so generally explore from Win-E.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** All's well that ends. |
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"Klaus Jorgensen" wrote: Carl used his keyboard to write : When I right click on the Start menu, select Explore and left click, I would like Windows Explorer to open to a folder of my choosing. I'm not sure how to change the Explore-item itself, but you can add another entry to the menu - put the text between the dashed lines below into a .reg file and execute: ------------------------------------------- Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\explorefolder] @="Explore F:" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\explorefolder\co mmand] @="explorer.exe /e,f:\\" ------------------------------------------- -- /klaus Please be more specific. Where do I enter the folder name I want to be the new default in your text string? Is there another solution? |
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After serious thinking mystified wrote :
"Klaus Jorgensen" wrote: Carl used his keyboard to write : When I right click on the Start menu, select Explore and left click, I would like Windows Explorer to open to a folder of my choosing. I'm not sure how to change the Explore-item itself, but you can add another entry to the menu - put the text between the dashed lines below into a .reg file and execute: ------------------------------------------- Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\explorefolder] @="Explore F:" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\explorefolder\co mmand] @="explorer.exe /e,f:\\" ------------------------------------------- Please be more specific. Where do I enter the folder name I want to be the new default in your text string? The text in the first quotation marks is what will be displayed in the start button menu, and the text in the second quotation marks is the program to be executed when clicking the menu, in this case the Windows Explorer executable with /e,f:\ as an argument (means; open Windows Explorer with expanded folder view of drive f:\). Also, a single backslash in registry keys must be prefixed by another backslash, hence the double backslash in my example. -- /klaus |
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Carl wrote:
I know this is not a new question, but I've been unable to find the answer to my very specific request, as follows: When I right click on the Start menu, select Explore and left click, I would like Windows Explorer to open to a folder of my choosing. Every one of the many solutions I've found on the Web either: 1) have you create a shortcut and click on it, or 2) have you modify the properties of the Start/Programs/Accessories/Windows Explorer shortcut which already exists. Either one of those I can do. That's not what I want. What I want to do is right-click on Start, select Explore, left click and Windows Explorer opens to a folder of my choosing. If this is not possible, please let me know so that I'll stop looking. :-) Thanks in advance, Carl How odd. I thought I was the only one who wanted to be able to right click and open explorer to a certain folder. But, unable to find a solution, I settled for creating a shortcut on my desktop with the following properties: C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe /e, d:\downloads It opens explorer only to the D drive with the downloads folder opened. All other folders remain closed. Hope that helps. |
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Carl wrote:
I know this is not a new question, but I've been unable to find the answer to my very specific request, as follows: When I right click on the Start menu, select Explore and left click, I would like Windows Explorer to open to a folder of my choosing. Every one of the many solutions I've found on the Web either: 1) have you create a shortcut and click on it, or 2) have you modify the properties of the Start/Programs/Accessories/Windows Explorer shortcut which already exists. Either one of those I can do. That's not what I want. What I want to do is right-click on Start, select Explore, left click and Windows Explorer opens to a folder of my choosing. If this is not possible, please let me know so that I'll stop looking. :-) Thanks in advance, Carl How odd. I thought I was the only one who wanted to be able to right click and open explorer to a certain folder. But, unable to find a solution, I settled for creating a shortcut on my desktop with the following properties: C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe /e, d:\downloads It opens explorer only to the D drive with the downloads folder opened. All other folders remain closed. Hope that helps. |
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"Klaus Jorgensen" wrote: After serious thinking mystified wrote : "Klaus Jorgensen" wrote: Carl used his keyboard to write : When I right click on the Start menu, select Explore and left click, I would like Windows Explorer to open to a folder of my choosing. I'm not sure how to change the Explore-item itself, but you can add another entry to the menu - put the text between the dashed lines below into a .reg file and execute: ------------------------------------------- Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\explorefolder] @="Explore F:" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\explorefolder\co mmand] @="explorer.exe /e,f:\\" ------------------------------------------- Please be more specific. Where do I enter the folder name I want to be the new default in your text string? The text in the first quotation marks is what will be displayed in the start button menu, and the text in the second quotation marks is the program to be executed when clicking the menu, in this case the Windows Explorer executable with /e,f:\ as an argument (means; open Windows Explorer with expanded folder view of drive f:\). Also, a single backslash in registry keys must be prefixed by another backslash, hence the double backslash in my example. -- /klaus Klaus, I apologize for my density. I do not know reg edit well. Can I search for the same string that (I assume) contains XPs default value "start menu" and replace it with "my documents"? To use your example above [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\explorefolder\co /e,f:my documents\\" Thank you -mystified |
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mystified writes: [] I apologize for my density. I do not know reg edit well. Can I search for the same string that (I assume) contains XPs default value "start menu" and replace it with "my documents"? I see how you're thinking, but I suspect that isn't actually in the registry anywhere (at least not for that reason): the fact that it opens at C:\Documents and Settings\you\Start menu is simply because that's where you are when you invoke it. The Start button is, really, just that folder/directory; it just happens to be presented as a button. If, for example, you go Start, Programs, Games, and _right_-click on Games, and select Explore, you'll see something similar. [] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. -C. Northcote Parkinson, author and historian (1909-1993) |
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Open Windows Explorer to a specific folder
In message ,
mystified writes: [] I apologize for my density. I do not know reg edit well. Can I search for the same string that (I assume) contains XPs default value "start menu" and replace it with "my documents"? I see how you're thinking, but I suspect that isn't actually in the registry anywhere (at least not for that reason): the fact that it opens at C:\Documents and Settings\you\Start menu is simply because that's where you are when you invoke it. The Start button is, really, just that folder/directory; it just happens to be presented as a button. If, for example, you go Start, Programs, Games, and _right_-click on Games, and select Explore, you'll see something similar. [] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. -C. Northcote Parkinson, author and historian (1909-1993) |
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Carl wrote:
:: I know this is not a new question, but I've been unable to find the :: answer to my very specific request, as follows: :: :: When I right click on the Start menu, select Explore and left click, :: I would like Windows Explorer to open to a folder of my choosing. :: Every :: one of the many solutions I've found on the Web either: :: :: 1) have you create a shortcut and click on it, or :: 2) have you modify the properties of the :: Start/Programs/Accessories/Windows Explorer shortcut which already :: exists. :: :: Either one of those I can do. That's not what I want. What I want to :: do :: is right-click on Start, select Explore, left click and Windows :: Explorer opens to a folder of my choosing. :: If this is not possible, please let me know so that I'll stop :: looking. :-) :: :: Thanks in advance, :: Carl Perhaps something useful he HOW TO: Customize the Windows Explorer Views in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;307856 Explorer.exe Command-Line Options for Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=314853 -- TaurArian [MVP] 2005-2010 - Update Services http://taurarian.mvps.org ====================================== Disclaimer: The information has been posted "as is" with no warranties or guarantees and doesn't give any rights. |
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"Carl" wrote in message
... I know this is not a new question, but I've been unable to find the answer to my very specific request, as follows: When I right click on the Start menu, select Explore and left click, I would like Windows Explorer to open to a folder of my choosing. Every one of the many solutions I've found on the Web either: 1) have you create a shortcut and click on it, or 2) have you modify the properties of the Start/Programs/Accessories/Windows Explorer shortcut which already exists. Either one of those I can do. That's not what I want. What I want to do is right-click on Start, select Explore, left click and Windows Explorer opens to a folder of my choosing. If this is not possible, please let me know so that I'll stop looking. :-) Thanks in advance, Carl Hi Carl, It is not possible. The options on the Start Menu button are for opening the Start Menu folder itself, either the Start Menu folder under All Users, or the Start Menu folder under the current user. (You're welcome. --Richard |
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"Carl" wrote in message
... I know this is not a new question, but I've been unable to find the answer to my very specific request, as follows: When I right click on the Start menu, select Explore and left click, I would like Windows Explorer to open to a folder of my choosing. Every one of the many solutions I've found on the Web either: 1) have you create a shortcut and click on it, or 2) have you modify the properties of the Start/Programs/Accessories/Windows Explorer shortcut which already exists. Either one of those I can do. That's not what I want. What I want to do is right-click on Start, select Explore, left click and Windows Explorer opens to a folder of my choosing. If this is not possible, please let me know so that I'll stop looking. :-) Thanks in advance, Carl Hi Carl, It is not possible. The options on the Start Menu button are for opening the Start Menu folder itself, either the Start Menu folder under All Users, or the Start Menu folder under the current user. (You're welcome. --Richard |
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On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 07:04:28 -0400, "Richard"
wrote: "Carl" wrote in message ... I know this is not a new question, but I've been unable to find the answer to my very specific request, as follows: When I right click on the Start menu, select Explore and left click, I would like Windows Explorer to open to a folder of my choosing. Every one of the many solutions I've found on the Web either: 1) have you create a shortcut and click on it, or 2) have you modify the properties of the Start/Programs/Accessories/Windows Explorer shortcut which already exists. Either one of those I can do. That's not what I want. What I want to do is right-click on Start, select Explore, left click and Windows Explorer opens to a folder of my choosing. If this is not possible, please let me know so that I'll stop looking. :-) Thanks in advance, Carl Go to properties for Windows Explorer and make the target say %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e, "c:\" in order to have WE open to c:\. Modify this to your needs. I hope this is what you are asking. Duke |
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On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 07:04:28 -0400, "Richard"
wrote: "Carl" wrote in message ... I know this is not a new question, but I've been unable to find the answer to my very specific request, as follows: When I right click on the Start menu, select Explore and left click, I would like Windows Explorer to open to a folder of my choosing. Every one of the many solutions I've found on the Web either: 1) have you create a shortcut and click on it, or 2) have you modify the properties of the Start/Programs/Accessories/Windows Explorer shortcut which already exists. Either one of those I can do. That's not what I want. What I want to do is right-click on Start, select Explore, left click and Windows Explorer opens to a folder of my choosing. If this is not possible, please let me know so that I'll stop looking. :-) Thanks in advance, Carl Go to properties for Windows Explorer and make the target say %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e, "c:\" in order to have WE open to c:\. Modify this to your needs. I hope this is what you are asking. Duke |
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