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How to get Windows Explorer to open the way you want

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Felecha

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I used to know the trick in Windows 98, how to set a switch in the command line of a shortcut to "...\explorer.exe ..." that you could make it open with the directory tree open to drive C or drive D or whichever you wanted.

I just installed W2K on my machine, and Windows Explorer opens with all the drives completely collapsed into My Computer in the lest pane. Every time I have to start from scratch and click open to C:\ and then further down.

Anyone know this quickie?
 
right click on the drive in win explorer, create shortcut, and place this on your desktop. Hope this is what you were asking for!
 
the the /n and /e switches in addition to the stuff you have already. That is what I have, but I'm not sure which one, if either is what does the trick.
 
Simple.

Goto your desktop, right click and select "new shortcut". Type the name of the directory you wish to shortcut to.... ie "c:\crap". Add a space, and then add "explorer.exe" to the end of the command. The end result would look like this. "c:\crap explorer.exe".

An Icon will then appear on your desktop, and the folder will just be a click away. You can name the icon whatever you want.

Hope that helps.
 
I found it somewhere else, too, and you're right. Setting Target to:

C:\WINNT\explorer.exe /n,/e, c:\junk

will make it open with the junk folder opened for display in the right pane

Thanks

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