Create a shortcut to explore my computer

Date: 2007-06-10

Sick of right-clicking on my computer to select "explore"?...

After repeatedly doing this for quite some time I decided it was time to create a simple shortcut to allow my to explore My Computer with a single click. The first approach was to simply create a shortcut to c:windowsexplorer.exe - whilst this opened explorer it defaulted to viewing My Documents - a folder I never use!

What I wanted was a view that defaulted to C:

The answer wasn't too far away... a quick bit of googling found a plethora of results.

The one I used is to launch explorer defaulting to C:
explorer /n,/e,/root,,/select,C:

The easiest way to create this shortcut is:

• Right click on your desktop and select New -> Shortcut
• Type in (or copy & paste): explorer /n,/e,/root,,/select,C:
• Click Next >
• Type a name for your shortcut such as Launch Explorer
• Click Finish

That's it! - not too hard now was it?