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by ole

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This is a great site, it's my first post so here I go:

I have been frustrated by the assumption by some programmer at MS that when I right click on the start button and choose explore, that I will want to have explorer open up in C:\WINDOWS\StartMenu. I simply want to have all of my drives displayed right up front so I can choose the one I want to get into.

I went to Q&A to a thread on explore two years ago that didn't really offer a solution and has been closed. I believe I found an easy work-around.

Drag the My Computer icon to the bottom start bar and choose Create Shortcut. Then I can just right click on that icon and choose explore as I would if I right clicked on the start button and BOOM I am right where I want to be.
Maybe you figured this out long ago, but for a civil engineer struggling with this for years, I finally got it right. It feels gooood!

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by carob

get there is to press & hold down the Windows key (located next to the ALT key on the bottom row of the keyboard) and at the same time press the "E" key. Release both, and Windows Explorer will pop up.

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