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re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 1:40 pm 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? Paul D 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! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 4:00 pm 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? > >color=#3366FF>Paul D > > > >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! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' Tuesday, August 20, 2002 at 5:13 pm Posted by John (1 messages posted) I have those switches on, but now it won't start with C:\ expanded. Help? I didn't change any of the switches, I have /n, /e, and C:\, just like before. 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! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 5:14 am 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: > >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! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 12:25 pm Posted by Draggon (3 messages posted) Thanks for the information, asdf. I've struggled trying to get my Explorer shortcuts to work correctly on Win 95, 98, NT & now 2000. Sometimes successfully, sometimes not. Usually, I'll just "settle" for something that works and doesn't lock things up, even though it's not exactly what I want. Glad I'm not the only one experiencing this weird crap... :) On Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 5:14 am, asdf wrote: >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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' Sunday, June 1, 2003 at 1:31 pm Posted by pataud (1 messages posted) I'm curious what the switches do, specifically /n and /e. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at 6:21 am 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! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 7:04 am Posted by Steve Uliasz (1 messages posted) The /e switch tells explorer to open with two panes, the left pane showing the directory structure and the right pane showing the contents of the selected directory. Without it, you get a single pane with the contents of whatever directory you specified. On the /n, your guess is as good as mine. On Sunday, June 1, 2003 at 1:31 pm, pataud wrote: > >I'm curious what the switches do, specifically /n and /e. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' Sunday, October 17, 2004 at 5:32 am Posted by JayM (15 messages posted) This regards the oft-reported Windows Explorer instability / freeze in Win XP, which necessitates Ctrl-Alt-Del & running explorer.exe (i.e. the Windows explorer). I tried using 2xExplorer (or the more recent xplorer2) from http://www.netez.com/xplorer2/. There has been no instability in exploring files/folders since. Both are freeware and in addition have a lot more functionality than Windows explorer. Hope this helps all folks having similar problems . Adieu to the triple-salute ! Jay ==================================== On Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 7:04 am, Steve Uliasz wrote: >The /e switch tells explorer to open with two panes, the left pane showing the directory >structure and the right pane showing the contents of the selected directory. Without >it, you get a single pane with the contents of whatever directory you specified. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum