Re: How can I open Windows Explorer using a keyboard shorcut, WITHOUT

Oh-oh... sorry nope that doesnt do *anything* on my machine.
Windows+E files up a window with two frames.
The left hand one defaulting to My Computer.

Damn. I wonder if it's just my PC then.
Do you think it's terminally ill??

Or just some stupid bl**dy obscure setting that I may have
accidentally set... [DEEP SIGH!]


Ship




Not 100% what you want but close and dead easy:

Press the Windows key (the one between CTRL & ALT) and the E key together.

"ship" wrote:

WindowsXP Pro (SP2)

Hi

How can I open Windows Explorer using a "keybard shortcut" WITHOUT
explorer defaulting straight into Full-Screen mode?

I've now spent quite a lot of time on this... and it's driving me
bl**dy NUTS.

All I want to do us be able to
- use a hot-key combination, to
- open up WindowsXP Explorer
- in my directory of choice,
- WITH the folders visible (in LH column)
- but WITHOUT it being in "Full-Screen" mode !

I have even tried opening explorer by using a short-cut to a batch file
which then contains something like
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e, c:\docs

And although this DID work for a while... Suddenly every time I use
hotkeys to open a directory they are in bl**dy FULL SCREEN mode.
So I keep having to hit F11 to get it back into "Normal" mode every
single time. :^[

Is the way you close the previous ms Explorer view relevant, here?
i.e. If you set it to the correct sort order you want... and then hold
down Control when you click the top right "X", then next time
Explorer opens is seems to keep your previous sort order...

Sorry for starting a second thread on this but I have now simplified
the definition of what the problem is... and I am getting desperate!

Any suggestions?


Ship
Shiperton Henethe



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