How do I change the Explorer default screen? 1

[aussteve]

In Win 2K Pro I naturally have a shortcut on the desktop to explorer.exe for convenience. This opens the explorer window default with the My Documents tree expanded and the My Computer tree folded up. All I wish to do is to modify it so that the reverse happens-when I open explorer the My Computer tree is expanded and the My Documents is not!
Its the little things.............
Any help would be appreciated

 

[MitchCumstein]

Change the target in the shortcut to look something like this:
Explorer.exe /n, /e, /select, C:
More Explorer switches @

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;152457

 

[aussteve]

Tried your suggestion Mitch,with variations but keep getting error messages. I am obviously getting the string wrong. The existing shortcut path is C:\WINNT\explorer.exe and I am adding syntax to the end of this, with no success. Any thoughts...?
By the way, the Microsoft link was a great help

 

[MitchCumstein]

Hmmm, It works on mine Look at these articles for more insight:

http://archive.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/07/03/000703oplivingston.xml

http://archive.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/07/31/000731oplivingston.xml

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/help/tips/story/0,2802,e7108307,00.html

http://www.itworld.com/nl/win_admin_tips/03152002/

http://www.itworld.com/nl/win_admin_tips/03292002/

 

[aussteve]

Thanks Mitch, finally got it.(It was the last article that clinched it)
Syntax now reads %systemroot%explorer.exe/e,
Opens perfectly with a neat display of all mapped drives as desired.
Many thanks