Bob,
Your kindness and generosity are overwhelming.
They are overshadowed only by your brilliance and readily
evident genius IQ that has evidently been engaged to gain
knowledge of the vast crevices of computer science.
I took your advice even though I had tried this before
with no apparent results and guess what, it worked! -
Thanks!
I know your time is very valuable and if you do not have
time to answer the following, I will understand.
Before I updated Windows 2000, to the latest, greatest, I
could shut my machine down at night with Windows Explorer
opened and the next morning it would be put back where I
had left it but now it is apparently closed and not
displayed when I reboot. I figure that the update process
has reset a variable and not restored it to its previous
value. I think it will take someone as gifted as you to
figure this one out. Do you have any ideas?
I would like to open Windows Explorer to a specific
directory with the files tree shown on the left. In DOS we
were able to type "/?" after a command to see the options.
I have not been able to find the options for explore.exe,
do you know where I can find them. I put an icon on the
task bar for the folder I need but when I enter "%
SystemRoot%\explorer.exe C:\Drawing" as the target, it
only opens the file and the file tree has to be opened
manually. I found the following in the "Microsoft
Knowledge Base Article - 221878". This basically does
what I want except that it changes it to My Computer
instead of C:\drawing. Do you know how to arrive at the
number employed in this scenario or to achieve the results
that I desire?
SUMMARY
When you open Windows Explorer using the Windows Explorer
shortcut on the Start menu, the My Documents folder is
selected by default. This article describes how to change
the default view to My Computer.
back to the top
Changing the Windows Explorer Default View to My Computer
1. Click Start, point to Programs, and then point to
Accessories.
2. Right-click Windows Explorer, and then click
Properties.
3. In the Target box, replace the current text with
the following text:
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-
08002B30309D}
4. Click OK.
To return Windows Explorer to the default setting, type
the following text in the Target box:
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,::{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-
0800361B1103}
Thanks,
Robert
