Opening Windows Explorer in Explore View

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Norm

In all the other Microsoft operating systems you could open Windows explorer
in an expanded view by running Explorer.exe /e, in Vista this only opens the
My Documents folder.

Does anyone know what they are using to open Explorer in the explore view? I
have an application that opens Explorer through code and would like it to
open showing all the drives.

Thanks,
Norm
 
You can either right click on Computer (on the desktop or Start menu) and
select Explore, then underneath the back and forward buttons, select the
drop down box and ensure "Navigation Pane" is ticked. This will bring up
common folders, such as Desktop and Documents, as well as Virtual Folders.

At the bottom of this panel near the Preview Pane, click on the up arrow
next to "Folders" to get the Explorer style navigation section back :o)

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Zack,

Thanks for the information, but that is not what I was asking. I know you
can right click on Computer and then click on Explore, but I want to be able
to do this through code.

Click start, run, and type in Explorer.exe /e and then click OK and you will
see that it opens in My Documents.

Try this same thing in WinXP and it will open the explore view of Computer.

I am trying to figure out what command Vista uses to do this.

Norm
 
I know, that's the only answer I believe there is you see. I don't think
there is a command based prompt yet - I've checked and tried a number of
combinations but nothing works.

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I never thought about that, I guess maybe they just haven't gotten around to
everything yet. I wouldn't think they would break something like that. :-)

I guess I will just have to wait for more complete beta's.

Thanks anyway Zack.

Norm
 
I use %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,C:\ to change the location of
the explorer view.
 
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