Saturday, November 7, 2009

Windows 7: Make Explorer start in My Computer instead of Libraries

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If you find it annoying that the Windows Explorer Icon on the taskbar always opens with the Libraries then there’s an easy way to change the behaviour.
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  1. Right click on the Explorer icon
  2. Right click on Windows Explorer
  3. Select properties
    Explorer properties
  4. Input at the end of the target field “/e,” without the quotes so that you get the following line:
    ”%windir%\explorer.exe /e,”
  5. You’re done. Explorer will now always open in the My Computer view.
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You can change the Explorer Command Line Switches to make Windows Explorer start in any folder you want.
For more explanation on the Switches you can check the following links:
Command Line Switches to Display Special Objects or Folders When Opening Windows Explorer
Command-Line Switches for Windows Explorer (Microsoft Support)

3 comments:

  1. This is totally wrong. First of all, you've got quotations after %windir that render this useless and second, this doesn't make it open in My Computer, but rather My Documents.

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  2. Thanks for your comment.
    I can only say that tip still works for me and correctly opens Explorer in the My Computer view.
    But you are correct that I've made a mistake.
    ”%windir”\explorer.exe /e,” should be ”%windir%\explorer.exe /e,”
    I'll fix it right now.

    The base bath is correct in the screenshots.

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  3. I had the same problem. The /e by itself would open My Documents. This worked from your first link:

    My Computer
    %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /E,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

    Thanks,
    netguru

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