Turning off Folder bar

[Guest]

When using the hotkey Win+E to open the Explorer, the Folder bar is always
turned on. Is there a way to set it that the Explorer opened by Win+E will
open without the Folder bar?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

This is possible by altering ddeexec string in the registry.

Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
Navigate to the following location:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\ddeexec

Backup the key to a REG file, using the Export option.
In the right-pane, double-click (default) and assign the data as follows:

[ViewFolder("%l", %I, %S)]

Close Regedit.exe

To Undo the above, set the (default) value back to the following string:

[ExploreFolder("%l", %I, %S)]