Win Explorer (C: drive) not cascading

[Monica]

As the shortcut target path for my C: drive in Win Explorer, I have the
following path....C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe /n,/e. When I click on the Win
Explorer icon, it takes me directly to my C:drive and collapses the dir
tree. Been doing this for years on Win 98 and XP machines. Today, when I
clicked on my Win Expl icon, Win Expl opened and defaulted to the C: drive
but did not cascade and there is NO (+ sign) to the left of the drive
letter. The drive's contents are listed in folders (or whatever view I
select) to the right but I don't understand why C : isn't cascading and
where the heck the + sign is to even open and manually cascade the drive.
When I right click on the C: drive, the option to *Expand* is not available.
It is available on my other drives. I did a system restore but that didn't
help.
Sidenote:In researching googlegroups for a fix for this problem, I've found
a few
others it's happened to. And, I discovered I can double click on a folder
in the right pane, causing the + sign to appear at the C: drive so that I
can manually expand the dir tree. But, I've not come across any suggestions
that have fixed the problem or reasons as to what caused it. Sure hoping
someone has a solution.

Monica

 

[David Candy]

Your command is wrong. /n creates a new folder view even if there is a folder view already opened at the particular folder. Without using the /n explorer will switch to the already open folder view.

/e is the command to start Explorer in explore mode.

explorer /e,c:\
or
explorer /e,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D},/select,c:\

 

[Monica]

Well David, we're getting closer The command I posted below is what I've
been using for YEARS and it's been working fine until a couple days ago.
I replaced it with the one you posted to see what happened. When Win
Explorer opened, it defaulted to My Computer and all the drives show up with
the + sign next to them (including the C drive....the drive that wasn't
showing the + sign). What I've done for years and am trying to get back to
is for the window to open and default to my EXPANDED C drive (automatically
showing my dir tree). Wish I knew what happened. It's not enough (well ok,
it is) to fix it, I want to know WHY it went haywire <lol>
Monica
Your command is wrong. /n creates a new folder view even if there is a
folder view already opened at the particular folder. Without using the /n
explorer will switch to the already open folder view.

/e is the command to start Explorer in explore mode.

explorer /e,c:\
or
explorer /e,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D},/select,c:\

 

[Les Herrman]

Well David, we're getting closer The command I posted below is what I've
been using for YEARS and it's been working fine until a couple days ago.
I replaced it with the one you posted to see what happened. When Win
Explorer opened, it defaulted to My Computer and all the drives show up with
the + sign next to them (including the C drive....the drive that wasn't
showing the + sign). What I've done for years and am trying to get back to
is for the window to open and default to my EXPANDED C drive (automatically
showing my dir tree). Wish I knew what happened. It's not enough (well ok,
it is) to fix it, I want to know WHY it went haywire <lol>
Monica
Your command is wrong. /n creates a new folder view even if there is a
folder view already opened at the particular folder. Without using the /n
explorer will switch to the already open folder view.

/e is the command to start Explorer in explore mode.

explorer /e,c:\
or
explorer /e,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D},/select,c:\

Monica

Try

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,C:\