Comments on: Windows Explorer Defaults to Libraries Folder in Windows 7

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:20:45 +0000

How about to your user folder? Say: Bill or Ryan the parent folder of My Documents?

By: diab0lik

diab0lik — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:30:33 +0000

Just in case anyone stumbles across this…..

You can change the default location when using win + e……just goto start>all programs>accessories>windows explorer and perform the same thing listed here (no need to hold shift0

By: KD

KD — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:12:48 +0000

Is there a possibility for windows 7 not to start explorer automatically at startup?

By: auke

auke — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:07:02 +0000

thanks a lot!:D

By: Jayden

Jayden — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:40:22 +0000

Thanks for this. But how do you make the left navigation menu tree expand to show the folder you have chosen in the target path? Using your advice above it only selects the root drive.

By: Yaz

Yaz — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:58:42 +0000

Sorry I meant as discribed in the article that winkey+E trick is not going to work.

By: Yaz

Yaz — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:56:13 +0000

Hey guys,

i made a simple tool to automate this for you, and Also WinKey + E works when you use the tool to set the default folder.

http://www.filefront.com/14681029/Windows7ExplorerPathChangerSetup.zip/

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:52:52 +0000

Thanks, works great! I have no desire to go to my Libraries, My Computer is much better for me.

By: James

James — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:55:19 +0000

I’ve set mine up to start in my user folder /n,::{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee} if you use just C:\User\{username} it starts all the way inside the c: drive not desktop – username a list of all GUIDs can be found in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace

By: John

John — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:00:09 +0000

It works, but much slower than when I just run explorer and it opens libraries.