Windows 7 - Windows Explorer Taskbar Icon - Change Open To Target

How to Change the Windows 7 Pinned Windows Explorer Taskbar Icon Open To Target

nope. just tried it. same damn thing. darn it.

Well I found a workaround I guess I can use until the RC which will hopefully fix it.

I just made a custom toolbar on the taskbar with a shortcut to My Computer... When I click on it, it actually uses the Windows Explorer icon... so I guess it'll have to do for now.

Strange,

Have you done any skin customizing or installed anything that may affect the Start menu and taskbar area?

no sir

I'm stumped, I'm not sure why it is opening a separate icon like that for you either.

I discovered a bug in this tutorial!

I found that if I followed this tutorial and used
%windir%\explorer.exe /root,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} to make Libraries point to My Computer, then after opening My Computer, if I went ahead and opened any drive by double clicking it, it would open in a new window which was very annoying for me!

Then I went back to the CLSID list and saw that the switch /root was used for "Computer" location whereas /n was used for all other locations.

I simply replaced /root in the computer location command by /n to make it:
%windir%\explorer.exe /n,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

And now the drives of My Computer open in the same window!

I think this might fix thenext8seconds 's problem as well!

Hope this helps!

Thanks for your time!

Thank you Dragor. Tutorial updated.

Actually yes Dragor, I also had the same problem and realized that changing it to "n" fixed that.

Anyway, I finally figured out a fix for my problem. It must be a bug, unless it's just my computer, but, apparently, unchecking the box for "Store and display recently opened programs in the Start menu" is what was making it use a new button. When I make sure it is checked, it works like its supposed to... hrm... weird.

Hey!
Have you guys noticed that when you change default location to any that would open computer instead of libraries, that launches an extra explorer.exe every time? So, if you open 5 explorer windows you will have 6 explorer.exe's running? RC maintains the same behaviour. Any way to change the tweak so it wouldn't open new explorer.exe's?

Hello Maxstep,

If you only click on the Windows Explorer icon on the taskbar, then it will only open one instance of Computer. However, if you right click on the Windows Explorer icon on the taskbar and click on the Windows Explorer in the jump list, then it will open a new instance of Computer everytime by design though.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I think I've got a bug here. This happened with the RC 7100, and sure enough is happening with 7600.. It works fine for a while but after using the target to make it open to Computer by default for a few days, it starts flashing yellow automatically every time I click the icon on the taskbar even though there's no reason why it should be doing this.

Has anyone else had this happen to them? I'm quite befuddled and annoyed.

It's apparently not being activated or focused on or whatever.