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re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want'
Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 5:14 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by asdf
(1 messages posted)
In reply to your message which was posted almost a year ago, I'd like to mention
that I'm using windows xp and that the '/n' command line option even causes this
explorer to malfunction and crash. It causes windows to imporperly create a third
instance of the explorer.exe application, and that extra instance starts leaking
resources like crazy and randomly consuming large cpu chunks. Remove the '/n' and
the problem goes away and as far as I can tell there's no difference in functionality.
That this manifests itself on multiple platforms shows that M$ not only reuses old
code, but they do little to ensure that code is correct.
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:
>
>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.
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>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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