re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want'
Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 1:40 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Paul D
(827 messages posted)
I've used that hack on 3 different machines for over three
years, in 98, NT and 2000 with no problems.Not much help, I know, but it may be
that the explorer executable is corrupted, rather than the problem coming from the
shortcut. Have you tried running explorer without the switches?
On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 10:55 am, Draggon wrote:
>I have a question about Force
>Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want:
>
>I recently started using this tip on my personal PC. I changed the shortcut to
be:
>
>c:\windows\explorer.exe /n,/e,/select,C:
>
>My system consists of an AMD 1.4Ghz Athlon, 512Mb of Crucial PC2100 DDR RAM, and
>Win98SE.
>
>A strange thing started happening. The shortcut would work great for awhile, but
>after leaving the PC on for awhile, Explorer would lock up upon opening it. If
I
>rebooted (had to be a RESET button, as the Restart function would just hang at this
>point), it would start working again for awhile, but after a little time, it would
>hang again.
>
>I took the command line options off and it hasn't locked up since. Windows Explorer
>was THE ONLY application effected. No other programs lock up on my PC, so I don't
>think it's a hardware problem.
>
>Does anyone have any insight on this unique situation?
>
>Thanks in advance!
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