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open my computer, go to tools at the top, choose folder options, go to view, then go down and chec the box that says "remember each folders view settings", say ok and that is it. pdots

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Thanks, but I did that before (thought that was in my post) but did not work. I restart, open Windows Explorer and the Status Bar is not there.


On Saturday, July 5, 2003 at 12:36 pm, pdots wrote:
>open my computer, go to tools at the top, choose folder options, go to view, then
>go down and chec the box that says "remember each folders view settings", say ok
>and that is it.
>
>pdots

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It "remembers" the folder settings of the "active" folder only. Example: in the shortcut My Documents: click view status bar then close it. The next time you open the My Documents link, the status bar will be there. Similarly do the same for My Computer and any shortcut you have for a folder.


On Monday, July 7, 2003 at 9:32 am, Chrissy wrote:
>Thanks, but I did that before (thought that was in my post) but did not work. I
>restart, open Windows Explorer and the Status Bar is not there.
>
>

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If you are as annoyed as me when you click on the Windows Explorer link it opens up with My Documents expanded when all I want is my c:\ drive. Adding c:\ to the end of the shortcut target like this %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe c:\ lets me avoid this lame annoying issue for a guy like me who gets tired of unexpanding My Documents (especially now that so many software companies are throwing directories into MD) just to see what's below. Hope this helps. BTW, this of course does not work with the link for My Computer. Which is lame anyway, there's those that use MC and those who eschew it. The only nice thing about MC is right-clicking|properties gets you into System settings.


On Thursday, July 17, 2003 at 2:43 pm, yvette wrote:
>It "remembers" the folder settings of the "active" folder only. Example: in the
>shortcut My Documents: click view status bar then close it. The next time you open
>the My Documents link, the status bar will be there. Similarly do the same for My
>Computer and any shortcut you have for a folder.
>
>

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Ok adding c:\ wil give you just your c drive, but i got more then one drive that i need to acces and what i like about working with explorer is that i can see all my drives and can drag and drop all i want. So what else can you do to stop My Documents being expanded in windows explorer? Paul


On Sunday, December 28, 2003 at 12:34 am, Jeff Gibson wrote:
>If you are as annoyed as me when you click on the Windows Explorer link it opens
>up with My Documents expanded when all I want is my c:\ drive. Adding c:\ to the
>end of the shortcut target like this %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe c:\ lets me avoid
>this lame annoying issue for a guy like me who gets tired of unexpanding My Documents
>(especially now that so many software companies are throwing directories into MD)
>just to see what's below. Hope this helps. BTW, this of course does not work with
>the link for My Computer. Which is lame anyway, there's those that use MC and those
>who eschew it. The only nice thing about MC is right-clicking|properties gets you
>into System settings.
>
>

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Spoke to soon. If you look at this page you'll find the answer. http://archive.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/07/03/000703oplivingston.xml I made my taget line at the properties of windows explorer like this: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n, /e, As you can read on the page of the link above, the /n stand for: opening a new window and the /e stand for the two pane window. Because i didn't put anything behind that, it doesn't open any folders or drives while opening. Good luck Paul


On Monday, January 12, 2004 at 10:19 am, Paul wrote:
>Ok adding c:\ wil give you just your c drive, but i got more then one drive that
>i need to acces and what i like about working with explorer is that i can see all
>my drives and can drag and drop all i want. So what else can you do to stop My Documents
>being expanded in windows explorer?
>
>Paul
>
>

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"%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n, /e"


Holy frijoles!

I've been looking for this fix since I bought XP eons ago.  I'm about to faint.  
The fix is perfect!

Thanks a ton,
Oyjord.








On Monday, January 12, 2004 at 10:42 am, Paul wrote:

>Spoke to soon.

>If you look at this page you'll find the answer.

> http://archive.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/07/03/000703oplivingston.xml 

>

>I made my taget line at the properties of windows explorer like this: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe 

>/n, /e,

>As you can read on the page of the link above, the /n stand for: opening a new window 

>and the /e stand for the two pane window. Because i didn't put anything behind that, 

>it doesn't open any folders or drives while opening.

>

>Good luck

>Paul

>

>
 

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I tried this and all it did was open the window/folder c: it didn't open explorer in folders view.


On Sunday, December 28, 2003 at 12:34 am, Jeff Gibson wrote:
>If you are as annoyed as me when you click on the Windows Explorer link it opens
>up with My Documents expanded when all I want is my c:\ drive. Adding c:\ to the
>end of the shortcut target like this %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe c:\ lets me avoid
>this lame annoying issue for a guy like me who gets tired of unexpanding My Documents
>(especially now that so many software companies are throwing directories into MD)
>just to see what's below. Hope this helps. BTW, this of course does not work with
>the link for My Computer. Which is lame anyway, there's those that use MC and those
>who eschew it. The only nice thing about MC is right-clicking|properties gets you
>into System settings.
>
>

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If you look in the c:\windows directory, you'll see two icons that are for Explorer. "explorer" is just a 'windows explorer command' (right click and view the properties) and the other "explorer.exe" is the Explorer application. Try opening both of them and you'll see that 'explorer' opens straight to your C: drive while 'explorer.exe' opens into 'My Documents' (gag me with a fork). Just create a shortcut to 'explorer' where ever you like to launch explorer from and you're set. I nearly fainted when I discovered that. My Documents makes me puke. Hope this helps.


On Monday, April 12, 2004 at 4:07 am, Bryan wrote:
>I tried this and all it did was open the window/folder c: it didn't open explorer
>in folders view.
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"(...) sometimes Win XP refuses to remember your folder settings, even when the checkbox "Remember each folder's view settings" is checked. By default, Windows XP remembers the last 400 folder settings. After 400, it's supposed to discard the oldest settings, so that it always remembers the most recent 400. In some cases, however, it just stops remembering new settings when the number of settings hits 400. The steps that follow will clear all your old folder settings so Windows XP can remember more, and also raises the limit higher than 400. Here's what you do. First, roll up your sleeves and launch Regedit. Navigate to the Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Shell. If this key is not present, skip to the next Registry key listed in the procedure. If a subkey named BagMRU is present, delete the entire subkey. If a subkey named Bags is present, delete the entire subkey. Look for a value named BagMRU Size (with a space between BagMRU and Size). If this value is not present, select New, DWORD Value from the Edit menu and name the new value BagMRU Size. Double-click on the BagMRU Size value, choose Decimal, and enter the desired number of folder settings for Win XP to remember (for example, 1,000). Navigate to the Registry key HKEY_ CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ ShellNoRoam. If present, repeat the earlier deletions. That should cure Windows XP's faulty memory. The OS will "forget" all existing folder settings, but from this point onward, it should remember them correctly."

copied from:
http://www.toejumper.net/speed5/winex5.htm

worked for me.

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After this My Computer and My Documents never remember any setting.


On Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 4:49 am, none wrote:
>"(...) sometimes Win XP refuses to remember your folder settings, even when the checkbox
>"Remember each folder's view settings" is checked. By default, Windows XP remembers
>the last 400 folder settings. After 400, it's supposed to discard the oldest settings,
>so that it always remembers the most recent 400. In some cases, however, it just
>stops remembering new settings when the number of settings hits 400. The steps that
>follow will clear all your old folder settings so Windows XP can remember more, and
>also raises the limit higher than 400. Here's what you do. First, roll up your sleeves
>and launch Regedit. Navigate to the Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft
>\ Windows \ Shell. If this key is not present, skip to the next Registry key listed
>in the procedure. If a subkey named BagMRU is present, delete the entire subkey.
>If a subkey named Bags is present, delete the entire subkey. Look for a value named
>BagMRU Size (with a space between BagMRU and Size). If this value is not present,
>select New, DWORD Value from the Edit menu and name the new value BagMRU Size. Double-click
>on the BagMRU Size value, choose Decimal, and enter the desired number of folder
>settings for Win XP to remember (for example, 1,000). Navigate to the Registry key
>HKEY_ CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ ShellNoRoam. If present, repeat
>the earlier deletions. That should cure Windows XP's faulty memory. The OS will "forget"
>all existing folder settings, but from this point onward, it should remember them
>correctly."

>
>copied from:
>http://www.toejumper.net/speed5/winex5.htm

>
>worked for me.

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Gentlemen: I was wondering if it is possible to eliminate "My Document" link from "Windows Explorer". Here is the idea. I never use "My Documents" folder for storing anything.


On every PC shutdown I delete all the content of this folder and I realy do not need to see this folder anywhere - I mean anywhere. So, I tried to user attrib +s +h "My Documents", but it did not help - it still appears in "Windows Explorer" together with "My Computer", "My Networks", and "Recycle Bin" and inside my user folder "C:\Documents and Settings\U01" Please, let me know if anyone knows how to acheive what I want.

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I tried something that worked for me. Hopefully it will help others. Go to folder options, file types, folder, advanced. Make sure that Open is the default, and not Explore. You can do this by clicking open, then clicking Set As Default. The toolbars toolbar dissappeared for me. If you still have it, try to remove it again, now with Open as the default, and click apply to all folders. Then it should be gone.

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