Kinda - Sorta
When I set explorer to open in the lower right-hand corner of the screen, the first window did it
right, but opening subsequent windows(with the first still open) bumped them to the upper left
corner. That's the built-in cascading to keep windows from opening directly on top of one another.
However, when I set the default position to approximately one title-bar width away from the bottom &
right edges, the first window opened in that position and subsequent windows opened in the corner
(piling directly on top of each other!)
Here's the drill:
1) Open regedit & navigate to:
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam"
2) Export for backup and then delete "BagMRU" & "Bags"
3) Open an explorer window, size it & position it near the corner (one title bar width away), then
close the window.
4) Refresh your view in regedit (F5), "BagMRU" & "Bags" should be recreated. Export the following
key:
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags\1\Shell"
5) Open the exported file for editing and make the following changes:
a) change
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags\1\Shell"
to
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell"
b) delete all values but the following (value names vary based on screen resolution):
"MinPos1024x768(1).x"=dword:ffffffff
"MinPos1024x768(1).y"=dword:ffffffff
"MaxPos1024x768(1).x"=dword:ffffffff
"MaxPos1024x768(1).y"=dword:ffffffff
"WinPos1024x768(1).left"=dword:00000184
"WinPos1024x768(1).top"=dword:000000f5
"WinPos1024x768(1).right"=dword:000003d0
"WinPos1024x768(1).bottom"=dword:00000289
"WFlags"=dword:00000000
"ShowCmd"=dword:00000001
6) Save the modified file & then merge it into the registry.
