Tuesday, 24 January 2012

How to Force Windows Explorer to Start in the Folder You Want

When you open Windows Explorer, you can set it to open, every time, in any folder that you select.

Open Windows Explorer, and go to your Start Menu folder (do a google query to find out how to locate this folder, depending on which Windows version you are using)

Find the shortcut that opens Windows Explorer, right click on it, and select Properties.

On the Shortcut tab, in the Target field change the path so that it now reads: c:\windows\EXPLORER.EXE /e, d:\myfolder

that path simply means that Windows Explorer program is located (as usual) in the folder c:\windows, and you then replace the part d:\myfolder above with the hard drive letter and the folder where you want Explorer to start.


Tip: If you want to have Explorer start at My Computer, without drive and folder branches initially expanded, in the string mentioned above you replace the part ( /e, d:\myfolder ) with this instead: /n, /e, /select, c:\

Note: Windows Explorer won't open into the folder you want it to open into, when you start Windows Explorer by right-clicking on the Start button. You will need to make any of these modifications to a shortcut to the Windows Explorer program (called EXPLORER.EXE) You can place such a shortcut on your desktop (or you can put it in the Start button) and then when you use this shortcut the path you specified will work. To launch Windows Explorer so that it points to the Desktop use this string in the Target field: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,%USERPROFILE%\Desktop


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