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re: Question about 'How do I set an application's default directory?'
Wednesday, January 2, 2002 at 12:17 pm
Posted by Greg
(7 messages posted)
All I know is if you change the properties of the windows explorer "Target" window
to C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /n,/e,C:\ explorer will open in the root directory
of the C drive, instead of that annoying My Documents thing. Replace C:\ with the
path to the directory you want explorer to open in. Works for me.
On Wednesday, December 19, 2001 at 7:36 pm, Elias Kushner wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I set an application's default directory?:
>
>Can anyone here tell me how to set the starting folder, meaning the one that opens
>up first, when you open the application "Windows Explorer?" Thanks.
>
>
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re: Question about 'How do I set an application's default directory?'
Tuesday, January 8, 2002 at 2:02 pm
Posted by Tom
(1 messages posted)
Under Windows 2000 Server, I used:
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe c:\ ,/e
It wanted the directory as the first argument, and when I tried to put the /e (to
show as the explorer, not as an "Open" window) after, it complained. The comma (and
space) fixes this.
I'm not sure what the /n does, so I left it out.
My "Start In" is still set to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%, so it must ignore it.
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Tom
On Wednesday, January 2, 2002 at 12:17 pm, Greg wrote:
>All I know is if you change the properties of the windows explorer "Target" window
>to C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /n,/e,C:\ explorer will open in the root directory
>of the C drive, instead of that annoying My Documents thing. Replace C:\ with the
>path to the directory you want explorer to open in. Works for me.
>
>
>On Wednesday, December 19, 2001 at 7:36 pm, Elias Kushner wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I set an application's default directory?:
>
>Can anyone here tell me how to set the starting folder, meaning the one that opens
>up first, when you open the application "Windows Explorer?" Thanks.
>
>
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re: Question about 'How do I set an application's default directory?'
Friday, February 22, 2002 at 1:41 pm
Posted by gregeric
(31 messages posted)
How do you make it open (auto expand) two drives at once ( re: Drive C and Drive
D for example) in the target command?
On Wednesday, January 2, 2002 at 12:17 pm, Greg wrote:
>All I know is if you change the properties of the windows explorer "Target" window
>to C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /n,/e,C:\ explorer will open in the root directory
>of the C drive, instead of that annoying My Documents thing. Replace C:\ with the
>path to the directory you want explorer to open in. Works for me.
>
>
>On Wednesday, December 19, 2001 at 7:36 pm, Elias Kushner wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I set an application's default directory?:
>
>Can anyone here tell me how to set the starting folder, meaning the one that opens
>up first, when you open the application "Windows Explorer?" Thanks.
>
>
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re: Question about 'How do I set an application's default directory?'
Saturday, March 30, 2002 at 11:33 pm
Posted by Googler
(1 messages posted)
Aah...thanks. That was irritating me for a long time, the stupid folder behavior.
Your suggestion works...I did a microsoft.com search, of course nothing came up.
Google was rather short of news, as well, until search result #25 or so showed this
page.
On Wednesday, January 2, 2002 at 12:17 pm, Greg wrote:
>All I know is if you change the properties of the windows explorer "Target" window
>to C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /n,/e,C:\ explorer will open in the root directory
>of the C drive, instead of that annoying My Documents thing. Replace C:\ with the
>path to the directory you want explorer to open in. Works for me.
>
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re: Question about 'How do I set an application's default directory?'
Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 3:35 am
Posted by Anduril
(2 messages posted)
In WindowSUXp you can also specify the file "explorer.scf" in the target-field. Starts
in C root.
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re: Question about 'How do I set an application's default directory?'
Monday, July 7, 2003 at 1:37 pm
Posted by Steve M.
(1 messages posted)
This works well for Windows Explorer but what about other applications. I have Windows
2000 Professional and all applications open "My Documents" on the D: drive by default.
I would like to change this to the C: drive. Example - using WORD, click File,
Save As - and it wants to save the document on the D: drive.
Thanks.
On Wednesday, December 19, 2001 at 7:36 pm, Elias Kushner wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I set an application's default directory?:
>
>Can anyone here tell me how to set the starting folder, meaning the one that opens
>up first, when you open the application "Windows Explorer?" Thanks.
>
>
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re: Question about 'How do I set an application's default directory?'
Tuesday, July 6, 2004 at 8:29 am
Posted by Csswo
(2 messages posted)
I was able to specify my default file save location, &
consequently the default file that opens when the
application opens, like this:
1. Open the application (in this case Word)
2. Click 'Tools'
3. Click the tab that says 'File Locations'
4. There are choices here. Click 'documents' so it is highlighted
5. Click 'Modify'
6. Now explore using the 'look in' box at the top until
you find the file you want as the default location. Click 'OK'
7. The next time you start this application, when you
choose 'Open' this will be the default file that opens.
Other applications have similar steps that are fairly easy.
I have changed all of my applications to save my work
to our network by default rather than 'my documents'
on my C drive.
On Monday, July 7, 2003 at 1:37 pm, Steve M. wrote:
>This works well for Windows Explorer but what about other applications. I have
Windows
>2000 Professional and all applications open "My Documents" on the D: drive by default.
> I would like to change this to the C: drive. Example - using WORD, click File,
>Save As - and it wants to save the document on the D: drive.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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