Is "Explore" Off Of Start Button Customizable?

[Schoby Dooby Due]

When right clicking the start button and choosing "Explore", can I
customize where that will open?

Thank you.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

If you mean you want to customize which folder opens, no. At least, I'm 99%
sure it's no. When I right-click Start on my machine, I get "Explore All
Users." That's what you get, All Users start menu folder. This is not a
Registry-derived menu, it's hard-coded into Explorer.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

When right clicking the start button and choosing "Explore", can I

customize where that will open?

NO.

Start button right click menu.

You cannot change this. These are all shortcuts to the 2 Start Menu folders
for the user that is logged on. The User and All Users.

The Start button right click menu contains:
---------
Open
Explore
Search
Properties
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Open All Users
Explore All Users
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And others depending on what software you have installed.

When right clicking the Start button and selecting Explore, you are not
opening Windows Explorer per se. You are opening a Start Menu folder.

You have four choices of how to open two folders; Open, Explore, Open
All Users and Explore All Users. These are just shortcuts to the two
folders.

Depending on a bunch of settings, but generally...
Explore opens folders with Folders pane on the left.
Open opens folders with common tasks showing on the left.

Right click Start button | Open defaults to %userprofile%\Start Menu with
the
Common Tasks pane showing.

Right click Start button | Explore defaults to %userprofile%\Start Menu with
the Folders pane displayed.

Right click Start button | Open All Users defaults to
%allusersprofile%\Start Menu with the Common Tasks pane showing.

Right click Start button | Explore All Users defaults to
%allusersprofile%\Start Menu with the Folders pane displayed.

The %userprofile%\Start Menu folder is the Start Menu folder for whoever
happens to be logged on, i.e. the Current User.

The whole context menu is for the Start Menu and nothing else.

How any folder opens depends on how different options are set on your
machine. Basically Open will open a folder with Common Tasks displayed and
Explore will open a folder with the Folder Pane displayed.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Ayush]

[Wesley Vogel]s message :

NO.

Start button right click menu.

You cannot change this.

Wesley, it is possible to customize the menu by changing HKCR\Folder\shell\ key.



Good Luck, Ayush.

 

[z1z1z1]

[Wesley Vogel]s message :

NO.

Start button right click menu.

You cannot change this.

Wesley, it is possible to customize the menu by changing
HKCR\Folder\shell\ key.



Good Luck, Ayush.

To add to the above: customizations there will affect ALL folders.
You could add a shell command that would open a specific folder, and this
would then appear in the context menu of all folders.
To do this, add a command that has default action like line below:
%SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe /e,"C:\MyVeryFavoritePlace"
(look at the "explore" shell command that is there already for example)
If you made this the default action, it would then happen when you
double-clicked on any folder (probably not what you want).

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Well, Ayush, I stand corrected.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Wesley Vogel]s message :

NO.

Start button right click menu.

You cannot change this.

Wesley, it is possible to customize the menu by changing
HKCR\Folder\shell\ key.


Good Luck, Ayush.

 

[Schoby Dooby Due]

[Wesley Vogel]s message :

When right clicking the start button and choosing "Explore", can I
customize where that will open?

NO.

Start button right click menu.

You cannot change this.

Wesley, it is possible to customize the menu by changing
HKCR\Folder\shell\ key.



Good Luck, Ayush.

To add to the above: customizations there will affect ALL folders.
You could add a shell command that would open a specific folder, and this
would then appear in the context menu of all folders.
To do this, add a command that has default action like line below:
%SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe /e,"C:\MyVeryFavoritePlace"
(look at the "explore" shell command that is there already for example)
If you made this the default action, it would then happen when you
double-clicked on any folder (probably not what you want).

Thanks for all the good comments guys!