Change the folder that Windows Explorer starts at

Question

In Windows7, when you open the Windows Explorer using the pinned Windows Explorer button on taskbar, it opens WE and points it to My Documents folder.

Is there a way to change this so it doesn't open the My Documents, but rather "Computer" just as Win+E keyboard shortcut does?

Answer 1

Here is a description of how you can set it to open just about everything, including "computer"

Answer 2

Have you tried the method that used to work in XP and Vista?:

• Open Explorer, and go to your Start Menu folder.
• Find the shortcut for Explorer, right click on it, and select Properties.
• Click on the Shortcut tab, and change the Target so it reads: c:\windows\EXPLORER.EXE /n, /e, d:\myfolder (where c:\windows is your Windows directory, and d:\myfolder is the directory in which you want Explorer to start.)

From Annoyances.org (XP) and Easy Tweaks (Vista)

On my XP machine I have "Start in" set to "%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%" which opens Explorer in My Computer from where I can see all the drives etc.

NOTE I haven't got Windows-7 to check this, but I thought it ought to be mentioned

Answer 3

this would be the target line to open Explorer with 'My Computer':

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,::{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d}

Answer 4

%windir%\explorer.exe /n, /e, /select, C:\

The above selects C:\ drive but does not open it, effectively making Computer your selected folder on the left pane.

Enjoy :)

Not meant to ignore other answers that already addressed it. My vote goes to them. But I prefer human-readable stuff to abstract things like ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}