Open Windows Explorer with two panes, and its focus on My Computer, and the drive icons unopened

[Musawwir Spiegel]

By default, the Windows Explorer opens with its focus on My Documents,
which appears selected in the left pane and the contents of that
folder shown in the right pane.

My preference would be for it to open with two panes, with its focus
on My Computer, with the various drives shown below the My Computer
icon in the left pane, as well as in the right pane.

After studying Article No. 307856 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, I
changed the target on my Explorer shortcut to "C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE
/e,c:\". That accomplished part of what I sought, which was to open
on a drive rather than on My Documents, which I don’t generally use.
However, it opens with the C:\ drive icon expanded to show all of the
folders in C:\ in the left pane.

I can’t figure out how to open Explorer with two panes, and its focus
on My Computer, or on C:\ unexpanded, so that all of the other drives
appear immediately below it without any additional keystrokes. Can
anybody tell me how to accomplish this?

Musawwir Spiegel
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Dave Patrick]

Edit the shortcut's "Target" to read;
%systemroot%\explorer.exe /e,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| By default, the Windows Explorer opens with its focus on My Documents,
| which appears selected in the left pane and the contents of that
| folder shown in the right pane.
|
| My preference would be for it to open with two panes, with its focus
| on My Computer, with the various drives shown below the My Computer
| icon in the left pane, as well as in the right pane.
|
| After studying Article No. 307856 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, I
| changed the target on my Explorer shortcut to "C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE
| /e,c:\". That accomplished part of what I sought, which was to open
| on a drive rather than on My Documents, which I don't generally use.
| However, it opens with the C:\ drive icon expanded to show all of the
| folders in C:\ in the left pane.
|
| I can't figure out how to open Explorer with two panes, and its focus
| on My Computer, or on C:\ unexpanded, so that all of the other drives
| appear immediately below it without any additional keystrokes. Can
| anybody tell me how to accomplish this?
|
| Musawwir Spiegel
| (e-mail address removed)

 

[Wesley Vogel]

HOW TO: Change Windows Explorer Default View to My Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;221878

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Musawwir Spiegel]

My sincere thanks to Wesley Vogel and Dave Patrick, Microsoft MVPs,
for their identical solutions to my problem. I had researched the MS
Knowledge Base on this issue, and had found a number of articles about
how to configure the startup of the Windows Explorer, but none with
this precise solutions. This one did exactly what I was trying to
accomplish.


Musawwir Spiegel
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Glad to hear it. Keep having fun.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In