Refresh doesn't work from shortcut

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-Steve-Krause-

I've been using Win2K for years and have only recently gone to XP Pro.

In Win2K I made shortcuts that open Explorer to specific directories in
mapped drives. This saves me many mouse-clicks per day because I don't have
to open up drives and drill down through sub-directories. This was done by
grabbing any shortcut file and changing the target to

c:\Winnt\explorer.exe /e, \\ntha1\users\common. [last part is of course
the specific folder I wanted to open in].

[The "/e," makes Explorer open in a mode that shows the tree structure on
the left side and next level down on the right and continues acting that way
as you drill down.]

Going to XP I have changed the location to

c:\Windows\explorer.exe /e, \\ntha1\users\common

and it works.

EXCEPT that I am finding that when I select a file in a directory and change
the name of the file, it doesn't show that the file name has changed when
I'm done. I have to hit Refresh. It didn't work this way when I used it in
Win2K. I'm wondering how I can get the same functionality in XP, as I do
not want to have to hit Refresh.

SteveK
 
Answering my own question:

I did a search and found that someone else had seen this problem in another
way. They found that changing from UNC addressing to just using the mapped
drive letter solved the problem. In other words from the example below I
use:

c:\Windows\explorer.exe /e, H:

and that works fine. I don't know why but that's okay for now.
 
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