How to Start Your Vista Windows Explorer at a Different Location
Although Windows Vista Search allows you to just easily type in a location of your hard drive to get an explorer view, some users including me still prefers to use the traditional Windows Explorer. By default, the Vista Windows Explorer brings you where your user Documents folders are located. But if you prefer your Windows Explorer to show you the files in a different location other than Documents then follow these very quick steps.
1. Right click on your Windows Explorer shortcut then select properties.
2. Click on the Shortcut tab
3. Change the target field to your desired location. The default value of this field is %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe you can easily change this by typing in the path of your location.
ex. If you want your windows explorer to start in C: drive type in:
C:\Windows\explorer.exe /n, /e, c:\
4. Click OK
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2 Comments
Wow that is great information i did not know about that but now i feeling glad that i came here.
I guess I’m pretty dense. I’ve done this procedure several times now, but nothing changes. One thing, when I open Windows Explore it does NOT go to my “Documents”, it goes to “Start Menu” which I’ve always felt very annoying, since I rarely have anything to do in that folder… I have to scroll up & out of the that directory back to “Computer”, actually I usually collapse the “C” drive so I can navigate around the other drives, SD cards or whatever to accomplish what I turned the computer on to do. Anyway, I put in the string you have on the shortcut page, and it makes zero difference in the behavior of Windows Explorer, at least on my machines (running Vista, and I have a laptop with XP on it that I haven’t tried this with yet).