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re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want'
Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 6:21 am
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Posted by Maggie (1 messages posted)


I'd simply like to know how to get explorer to open with the Folder view on by default! (Running XP)


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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Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Draggon: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 10:55 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Draggon: Tue, Dec 18, 2001, 10:55 am)
-re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Paul D: Tue, Dec 18, 2001, 1:40 pm)
*re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Draggon: Tue, Dec 18, 2001, 4:00 pm)
*re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (John: Tue, Aug 20, 2002, 5:13 pm)
-re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (asdf: Sat, Nov 16, 2002, 5:14 am)
*re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Draggon: Sat, Nov 16, 2002, 12:25 pm)
-re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (pataud: Sun, Jun 1, 2003, 1:31 pm)
-re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Steve Uliasz: Thu, Nov 13, 2003, 7:04 am)
*re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (JayM: Sun, Oct 17, 2004, 5:32 am)
*re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Maggie: Wed, Aug 20, 2003, 6:21 am)
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