re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want'
Sunday, October 5, 2003 at 3:53 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by akuma - master of fists !
(1 messages posted)
thanks a lot for your tip! i had a problem with geoshell that messed up folder and
file folder associations on win2k. this helped me to fix it, and to fix an underlying
problem i've been trying to resolve for several years now
On Saturday, January 4, 2003 at 3:43 pm, rmoore wrote:
>This is for those of you who use Windows Explorer for organizing your Programs folder
>but are tired of having to find the Windows Explorer and “mouse down” through the
>following path: C\Windows\Start Menu\Programs. This is a way to create shortcuts
>in the task bar for quick and easy access of customized Windows Explorer views.
>
>With your desktop in view, choose Start/ Find/Files or Folders, type EXPLORE. EXE
>in the NAMED box, and C: \WINDOWS in the LOOK IN box. When the file turns up, click
>the STOP button to halt the search, right drag a copy of the file onto the desktop,
>and choose CREATE SHORTCUT(s) HERE. Right click your shortcut and choose Properties.
>
>The Target setting, near the middle of the Shortcut sheet, tells Explorer to show
>the contents of the root folder, C: \. If that's what you want, you're nearly home
>free. Choose the Change Icon button, type C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ SHELL32.DLL in the
File
>Name box (for Windows 2000 users type, %SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32\SHELL32.DLL), select
>an alternative icon for your shortcut, and press Enter. If you want several different
>starting points for Explorer, create the appropriate number of shortcuts.
>
>Now comes the hard part. Open the Properties dialog box for each shortcut, and type
>a command, placing it in the Target box, in the following format:
>
>C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE {/n},{/e},{options},{folder}
>
>· /n, - Opens a new single pane Explorer window
>· /e, – Opens a 2 pane view of the selected folder
>· options- lets you choose between /root and /select
>· /root, – Used with folder. Chooses the designated folder as the starting point(root)
>of the folder tree. (Ordinarily, \DESKTOP is the root)
>· /select, – Highlights the designated folder and displays the contents of the parent
>folder in the right pane.
>· folder – designates the folder path
>
>Note that there is a space bertween EXPLORER.EXE and {/n}, but no spaces elsewhere.
>Each comma belongs to the preceeding element. Curly braces mean an item is optional-
>for example, you can include /n, and omit the the others. Spend a little time and
>experiment and you will understand how the parameters work. The following are some
>examples:
>
>To present a SINGLE PANE view of C:\WINDOWS, use this command (don’t forget the
mentioned
>space):
>
>C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /n, C:\WINDOWS (for Win98)
>
>C:\WINNT\EXPLORER.EXE /n, C:\WINNT (for Win2k)
>
>To present a DUAL PANE view with an open, highlighted \WINDOWS folder as the top
>folder in the left pane, use:
>
>C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /e,C:\WINDOWS (for Win98)
>
>OR
>
>C:\WINNT\EXPLORER.EXE /e, C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ALL USERS\START MENU\PROGRAMS…
>(for Win2k)
>
>To present a DUAL PANE VIEW WITH C: \WINDOWS, as the top folder in the left pane,
>use:
>
>C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /e,/root,C:\WINDOWS (for Win98)
>
>C:\WINNT\EXPLORER.EXE /e, /root,C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS (for Win2K)
>
>You can leave these shortcuts on the desk top however, this is not always a convenient
>place to access them. If you have WIN 98, I suggest you gather them in a folder.
>(Right click on the DESKTOP, choose NEW FOLDER and rename it say… Explorer Views).
>Drag your newly created shortcuts in the Explorer Views folder and then drag the
>Explorer Views folder to the TASK BAR next to the START button. Now you have a kind
>of “Quick Launch” Explorer view folder.
>
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