c drive always expands, want it to stop

[shamus]

Originally posted by Ya_know
I use this to get to a different drive expanded:
explorer /e,/root,/select,x:

what you could try is this:
explorer /e,/select,x:

X can be any drive you wish...

To make a shortcut work the way I think you want it to, put this:
%windir%\explorer.exe /e,/select,x:
as the target.

That's the ticket. thanks Ya_know!

[mattyx]

aha! thanks. i found another way also....

i had a shortcut to explorere that i had dragged onto the quick luanch part. that was the one opening to an expanded c: drive.

when i went to start - accessories - windows explorer, it did NOT do it, it went to my documents. so i deleted my quick launch shortcut and then copied windows explorer out of my start menu to the quick launch again and WALLAH! it works. thank god.

and now when i look at the comman line parameters for it in properties, all it has is %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe.

so noonoo was right as well.

thanks guys.

i can hardly wait for the day when i get to sit down with my kids and say "let me tell you about the time your daddy stayed up for 2 days trying to figure out how to stop the C: drive from expanding"

[mattyx]

oops i meant ya_know in my previous post. sorry.

that friendlytree registry hack didn't work for me no matter what i set it to......

[NooNoo]

Originally posted by mattyx


so noonoo was right as well.

That's the great thing about windows - we can all be right

Having looked for specific settings for explorer and found nothing satisfactory, other than turning up information about how the registry is limited to so many settings and that IE adds to the confusion, I give up

[olsonde]

Try this one also...

explorer.exe /n, /e, /select, c:\

Your local drive, drive connections, and other devices will be displayed, but none will show any detail.

[TechLarry]

Originally posted by mattyx
when i open explorer it always expands my C drive so i can see all the folders. i don't want it to do this. i just want to see all the hard drives and then expand them if i want to.

how do i stop this. its only my C drive. the others don't expand. its annoying as hell...

A solution to this was, I believe, given on TechTV's "TheScreenSavers" a few weeks ago.

Try going to their site (www.techtv.com/screensavers) and doing a search.

I believe it involved a Registry Entry.

TL

[KINGofBLEH]

Use [Windows key] + [E] to launch explorer or create a shortcut to %windir%\explorer.exe. Either way should open explorer to display all drives view.