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re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want'
Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 4:00 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Draggon
(3 messages posted)
Yes, I took the command line switches out of the shortcut, and it has yet to lock
up on me since. I intend to put them back in here in a day or two to see if that's
really what was causing it, because I did take two additional steps on this issue.
I extracted a new "explorer.exe" from my win98 cd using SFC, and SFC also found a
corrupted file called "setupx.dll" that it replaced from the CD.
I'm guessing it was probably one of these two moves that actually solved my problem,
but I didn't test them properly.
On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 1:40 pm, Paul D wrote:
>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?
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>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:
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>c:\windows\explorer.exe /n,/e,/select,C:
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>My system consists of an AMD 1.4Ghz Athlon, 512Mb of Crucial PC2100 DDR RAM, and
>Win98SE.
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>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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