Open Explorer To Left Pane File

ASR · 27 Jun 2010

Hi everyone:

How can I open explorer to a particular left pane file? I want to open to: Libraries, Documents, My documents (with the files showing underneath my doucments). I have been able to open to: user, my documents, but I would rather open to the libraries file structure - it looks cleaner.

Thanks, in advance.

NoN · 27 Jun 2010

ASR said:

Hi everyone:

How can I open explorer to a particular left pane file? I want to open to: Libraries, Documents, My documents (with the files showing underneath my doucments). I have been able to open to: user, my documents, but I would rather open to the libraries file structure - it looks cleaner.

Thanks, in advance.

Do you mean like this?:

ASR · 27 Jun 2010

Thanks for your reply, but no, the left-most pane opened under libraries, documents, my documents.

NoN · 27 Jun 2010

Maybe click right the taskbar=>Properties=>Start Menu=>Personalized, add Documents (3 options)

derekimo · 27 Jun 2010

ASR said:

Hi everyone:

How can I open explorer to a particular left pane file? I want to open to: Libraries, Documents, My documents (with the files showing underneath my doucments). I have been able to open to: user, my documents, but I would rather open to the libraries file structure - it looks cleaner.

Thanks, in advance.

Is this what you are trying to do,

Navigation Pane - Automatically expand to current folder

Ztruker · 27 Jun 2010

I don't think you can. Libraries is a junction point or hard link that points to the actual location and is itself not a real location. So you can't open explorer to C:\Libraries\Documents\My Documents, since that is actually

C:\Users\youraccount\Documents

The best you can do is open explorer there by changing the target of explorer properties to something like

%windir%\explorer.exe /n,/e,C:\Users\youraccount\Documents