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

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.

By: kyle

kyle — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:02:09 +0000

thanks so much! you are the only one who has posted this correctly.

other sites are posting both codes together:

/root, ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

where root makes it open my computer, but any drives open in a new window

{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} makes it open a regular my computer window, that opens drives in the same window.

Thank you!!

By: Xander

Xander — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:42:15 +0000

Many thanks. Just working on Win7RC and that was the first thing that was actually bugging me. (Next to get rid of any ‘homegroup’ stuff)

By: Bzium

Bzium — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:26:33 +0000

THANKS A LOT…

By: Saeed

Saeed — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:51:56 +0000

Thanks a bunch, I was looking for this.

By: David

David — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:11:49 +0000

Unfortunately, the shift-right-click trick appears to work only when there are no active instances of the application associated with the shortcut. Otherwise, the result is a Restore/Move/Size/Minimize/Maximize menu. If you have, say, a long copy operation going so that Explorer is already running, you are locked out of being able to access the shortcut for the entire duration (even if you have the folder properties set to allow Explorer to launch a separate process for each folder). In fact, this is what is blocking me from changing the Explorer default folder right now.