Resolved Opening up Explorer with focus on right pane

When I click on My Documents from the start menu, explorer opens up My Documents, but the focus is on that folder in the left pane, and the sub-folders are not visible. Scrolling with my mouse doesn't do anything. Is there any way I can get Explorer to open up My Documents with the focus in the right pane, so I can immediately start scrolling and can more quickly locate the desired folder/document?

 

Hi psaulm119,

Try experimenting with creating shortcut(s) using these explorer command switches:
http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/explorershortcuts.htm

 

Thanks for the link.

OK I looked at the article, and in order to get what I want, decided to make a shortcut out of the following:
EXPLORER.EXE /e,/select, D:\My Documents\Aids:

I chose "Aids" simply because that is the first folder that appears in My Documents. However, after making that a shortcut, and then clicking on it, I was given the following error message:
"The path .... does not exist or is not a directory "

Not sure what to do now. I'm not trying to open up any sub-directory (such as my Aids folder); all I want to do is have some folder in the right-pane selected, so when I scroll down, that right pane moves down. Right now, the left pane is selected, but moving the scroll wheel does nothing at all.

 

Try:
Got to watch thoses spaces.

explorer /e,/select,D:\My Documents\Aids

Is "D:\My Documents\Aids" the full, correct path to this folder? If unsure right click drag and drop onto the desktop this folder and select creat shortcut. Check that shortcut for the path it is using.

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http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/q130/5/10.asp&NoWebContent=1

 

You're a genius (and a goddess )! That did it.

Yeah the article said that syntax is important.

Thanks a lot.

 

Your most welcome and thank you for the update.

Don't forget to mark this resolved, please.

 

Just in case anyone else was thinking of doing the same thing, I was unable to paste this path into the default, start menu shortcut to My Documents. I was only able to get this into the start menu by makign a shortcut in a folder where it would not be deleted, and then moving it onto the left side of XP's start menu. When I would try to make this the default location for Windows' My Documents, it would tell me something like "this is not a path, directory," or whatever, and not let me do it. I'm ok with My Documents shortcut being on the left side, tho. I just told Windows to remove the icon/shortcut from the right side.