OPening Windows Explorer

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Just bought new computer with Windows Vista. When I open Windows Explorer,
the cursor goes straight to "Start Menu", about middle of the list of
folders, and with all subfolders open. As the start menu has a button on the
scrren already, why do they think this is necessary? And as the "system" is
set up with a shortcut to "Documents" at the top of the list, and this is
where most of us want to go, why? Is there any way to change it? I don't
want to see every folder and subfolder, I just want to go to my files. I am
convinced that the boffins don't understand how ordinary people think
 
How are you opening Windows Explorer?
When I run 'Windows Explorer' from the start orb, I am placed at
walraven/documents.

Michael
Vista Home premium
 
bwh said:
Just bought new computer with Windows Vista. When I open Windows
Explorer,
the cursor goes straight to "Start Menu", about middle of the list of
folders, and with all subfolders open. As the start menu has a button on
the
scrren already, why do they think this is necessary? And as the "system"
is
set up with a shortcut to "Documents" at the top of the list, and this is
where most of us want to go, why? Is there any way to change it? I don't
want to see every folder and subfolder, I just want to go to my files. I
am
convinced that the boffins don't understand how ordinary people think
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strange behavior. anyway you should already have an icon with your login
name on the desktop.

right-clic-drag the computer icon to the quick launch bar (if this is not
open, right click in the taskbar > toolbars > check it).

right clic the computer icon in the quick launch > properties > and in the
'target' field put
C:\Windows\explorer.exe C:\
or
C:\Windows\explorer.exe C:\Users\yourloginname\Documents
or whatever you like

i myself like better the quicklaunch as shortcuts there only need one clic.
if you prefer having the shortcut on the desktop:
right clic on the desktop > new > shortcut
and paste the above line.

you can set as many shortcuts as you want like this, renaming them like the
folders they link to.

hth, z.
 
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