Explorer View - Short Cut to Drive

I put a short cut to a new work drive on my desktop (drive P) and the modied
the short cut work with Ctrl + Alt + P. This works fine except when Explorer
opens it is missing the folder view on the left. I can go into View
Explorer Bar Folder to put it back but is there away to make the short cut
open Explorer with the folders already displayed?

Create a short cut to explorer.exe. Open properties and edit the 'target'
to something similiar to this:

C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe /e, c:\

where c:\ is the target folder. For example, "C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe /e,
c:\windows" will open explorer to the windows folder.

Woody


"M.Siler" wrote in message
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I put a short cut to a new work drive on my desktop (drive P) and the
modied
the short cut work with Ctrl + Alt + P. This works fine except when
Explorer
opens it is missing the folder view on the left. I can go into View
Explorer Bar Folder to put it back but is there away to make the short
cut
open Explorer with the folders already displayed?

Open folders in Windows Explorer mode by default (i.e. with folder pane
enabled):
http://www.winxptutor.com/folderpane.htm

Explorer.exe Command-Line Options for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=314853

Customize the Windows Explorer Views in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=314853

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Window XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k


"M.Siler" wrote in message
...
I put a short cut to a new work drive on my desktop (drive P) and the modied
the short cut work with Ctrl + Alt + P. This works fine except when Explorer
opens it is missing the folder view on the left. I can go into View
Explorer Bar Folder to put it back but is there away to make the short cut
open Explorer with the folders already displayed?