how to fix explorer

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For some reason I either missed it or it was a victim of the last virus attack.

Someone posted a help on how to set explorer to open to a different folder
other than %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe

Could someone repost the howto on that ?
 
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Husky said:
For some reason I either missed it or it was a victim of the last
virus attack.

Someone posted a help on how to set explorer to open to a different
folder other than %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe

Could someone repost the howto on that ?
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%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e c:\

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"Life is what happens while we are making other plans."
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%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e c:\
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I had a brainstorm and entered '%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe' into the M$ search
bar, and it came back with '%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /root, c:\

aha, but yours works better. Note. The comma is the difference between it
working and not working.

I've been rebuilding the thing all day. Something real nasty got to my machine.
Took and grabbed 100% of everything. Couldn't run anything. tried Adaware, but
it just locked and froze.
All it did was USE resources. I suspect it was computing Pi to the nth digit.
 
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Husky said:
I had a brainstorm and entered '%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe' into the
M$ search bar, and it came back with '%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe
/root, c:\

aha, but yours works better. Note. The comma is the difference
between it working and not working.

I've been rebuilding the thing all day. Something real nasty got to
my machine. Took and grabbed 100% of everything. Couldn't run
anything. tried Adaware, but it just locked and froze.
All it did was USE resources. I suspect it was computing Pi to the
nth digit.
Click to expand...

Here is what I use - you might try it out and see how you like it.

%systemroot%\explorer.exe /e,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}


--
Ron Bogart {} ô¿ô¬
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -
Lovin life on Mercer Island 8^)
"Life is what happens while we are making other plans."
In memory of a true friend, MVP Alex Nichol (1935-2005)
 
Here is what I use - you might try it out and see how you like it.

%systemroot%\explorer.exe /e,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
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%systemroot%\explorer.exe /e, C:\temp
I use the above for virus and security reasons. Everything goes into this
folder before it goes anywhere else.
If it weren't for this folder, I'd probably never access the drives.

Cept for Trend sending out that pattern file Friday that did more damage than
any virus, I've kept the machine fairly clean.
 
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