Loading ...When you click Start | My Documents, Windows Explorer opens in the \My Documents folder. When you click Start | My Computer, Windows Explorer opens in My Computer. But what if you commonly want to start Windows Explorer someplace else? What if you frequently want to open Windows Explorer in, say, the Program Files folder? It’s easy, if you know the trick.
Right-click any blank part of the Desktop
Click New | Shortcut
In the box that says Type the Location of the Item, type in a line like this:
explorer /e,/root,”c:\program files”
You have to be very careful and type that line precisely the way I showed it. In particular, there’s a space before the first slash, but no spaces afterwards (except inside the quote marks).
Click Next
In the box that says Type a name for this shortcut, type a reasonable name, such as “Program Files”.
Then click Finish.
WinXP will put a shortcut on your Desktop that launches Windows Explorer at the location you specified. Double-click on it, and you’ll see how it works.
You can even put the shortcut on your Start menu (although you can’t get it into the upper-right corner). Go out to the Desktop, click on the icon, and drag it to the Start button. The Start menu unfolds, and you can drag the shortcut to anyplace you like on the left-hand side of the Start menu. [Comment on this Post]
