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re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want'
Wednesday, November 19, 2003 at 9:09 am
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Posted by Gerry Kroll (1986 messages posted)

Create a shortcut to Windows Explorer on the desktop. Right-click on this shortcut and select Properties from the menu. Add the following to the Target field (without the "): " /e,c:\"

On Wednesday, November 19, 2003 at 9:02 am, Paul wrote:
>I have a question about Force
>Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want:

>
>I'm using XP Professional and want the left pane of explorer to display "C" drive
>at top of list like my old win98 did. I tried the switch posted here and gives me
>a message that target specified is not valid and to put in a correct file name, etc..
>How do I do this trick in Windows XP Professional. (Wish I was back with Win98!)

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Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Paul: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 at 9:02 am)

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re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Paul: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 at 9:17 am)

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Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Paul: Wed, Nov 19, 2003, 9:02 am)

re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Gerry Kroll: Wed, Nov 19, 2003, 9:09 am)

re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Paul: Wed, Nov 19, 2003, 9:17 am)

re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (jcw: Wed, Nov 19, 2003, 9:25 am)

re: Question about 'Force Explorer to Start With the Folder You Want' (Paul: Wed, Nov 19, 2003, 10:08 am)

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