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How can you set windows exlporer to open up on a specific drive or sub-dir. Like a default setting. For example if I wanted it to open up to D: each time I open it on one day, then open up D:\text, the next day?
Thank you so much
by shanghai sam
To change Windows Explorer's start up settings (in Windows 98 at least), right click on the Explorer icon, and choose Properties from the menu that appears. Choose the Shortcut tab (if it is not already selected) and in the box labeled Target you should see the file path C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /n,/e,C:\
Change the C:\ at the end of the string (leave the comma there) to the drive and / or directory you want: D:\ or D:\text
Click on the OK or Apply button to make the change. This setting will remain as you set it, though, until you manually change it again. Alternatively, you can create a shortcut to explorer on your desktop, with a space and the directory you want to point it to:
C:\windows\explorer.exe d:\txt
in the CommandLine box (after right clicking on the desktop and choosing New - Shortcut)
With a shortcut, you can also give the link a hotkey combination by clicking in the hotkey box and pressing a key or combination of keys (Alt + F10 perhaps) to bring it up immediately. You may even want to create several explorer shortcuts, linking one to each of your most used directories, and giving each a hot key combination. If you do that, though, be sure to store all of the extra shortcuts in a desktop folder to save screen space. I hope at least one of these sugestions helps you. Good luck!
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