re: Comment about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 5:55 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by michael h (4 messages posted) Tim, I'm running windows 2000 5.00.2195 service pack 2 (hopes this means something to you -- I just know it is my version of windows!) I tried your solution below in an attempt to get windows explorer to start in my directory of choice. Here is what I typed into the target line: C:\WINNT\explorer.exe /e,//root,c:\school I want the bugger to open up to c:\school but this does not seem to work. Can you help a brother out? Thanks, Michael On Monday, March 25, 2002 at 12:27 pm, Tim wrote: >You can easily do better than this tip. Try the following: > >C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /e,/root,YOUR-DIR > >where YOUR-DIR is the subdirectory you want to be at the top of >the tree displayed by explorer. This way, if you want to start some >place deep in the subdirectory tree on your disk without all the >garbage showing above it,you see a neat display. > >Example: c:\windows\explorer.exe /e,/root,c:\my documents > Written in response to: Comment about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Tim: Monday, March 25, 2002 at 12:27 pm) Responses to this message: re: Comment about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Tim: Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 6:31 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Comment about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Tim: Mon, Mar 25, 2002, 12:27 pm) re: Comment about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (michael h: Thu, May 2, 2002, 5:55 pm) re: Comment about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Tim: Thu, May 2, 2002, 6:31 pm) I appreciate it (michael h: Thu, May 2, 2002, 7:59 pm) re: I appreciate it (Tim: Sun, May 19, 2002, 8:48 am) re: One more trick (Stephan: Tue, Jun 4, 2002, 5:08 pm) Need Help with Start/Run missing (Debbie: Sun, Mar 23, 2003, 6:10 pm) re: Need Help with Start/Run missing (michael h: Thu, Sep 25, 2003, 4:36 pm) re: Need Help with Start/Run missing (Paul Taylor-West: Wed, Jan 11, 2006, 3:06 am) re: Comment about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Paul: Wed, Nov 19, 2003, 7:59 am) re: Comment about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Hansi: Sun, Dec 7, 2003, 5:28 am) re: Comment about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Jacob: Thu, Jan 22, 2004, 1:33 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum