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Maybe there's some other factor involved too then. I'm using RTM as well. As soon as I remove the shortcut parameters the behavior goes away.
Thanks for the tip, be sure to check out all the tutorials as Antman suggested, as this is already a tutorial.
Windows Explorer Taskbar Icon - Change Open To Target
Actually, the post here is not valid and does cause the error reported by marco.
The correct string is
%windir%\explorer.exe /n,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
As always, the Shark is on the ball.
Ah, didn't read the whole thing. The tutorial has both %windir% and %systemroot%, the latter posted by Limneos a few posts down the tutorial. I do not use the tweak, if Antman says the %windir% string works properly, and not the %systemroot%, then perhaps it should be brought to Brinks attention in the tutorial, so the %systemroot% strings can be taken out, or an warning issued about it.
I think it is the addition of [ c, ] that breaks it.
I don't think it is the choice of env vars, but I could be wrong. No research performed other than testing the two strings.
%windir%\explorer.exe /n,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
%systemroot%\explorer.exe /n, /c, ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
The tweak itself is bad on Windows 7 systems no matter what path you use.
It opens a new explorer.exe process each time you use the shortcut
and does not close that new process when closing the window.
I reboot alot so it doesnt really add up to alot on my machine but for a user that doesnt reboot 17 times a day like i do they will end up with 100's of open explorer.exe processes.
I say ... bad tweak!
executing the default path,
%windir%\explorer.exe
does NOT open a new explorer.exe process.
Last edited by Shark007; 13 Feb 2010 at 08:58.
If I use the shortcut once, a single additional instance of Explorer occurs. Subsequent clicks toggle min/max. Closing the window does NOT kill the process. Add'l clicks do indeed create new instances of explorer that behave properly (min/max).
This is odd. I used a similar (maybe the same) tweak in my unactivated wzor RTM 16385. While I did not specifically look for this affect, I am certain I would have noticed multiple explorer instances - since I have the bad habit of closing windows instead of min/maxing.
In my previous install, I had two icons on the TaskBar. One opened computer - and had a separate set of jumplist items from the original (and co-existing icon). I do not know how I did that. Somewhere in this forum, I have posted a screenshot of this setup.
That arrangement did not cause multiple unkillable instances of explorer.
To further complicate matters, I just experienced a non-dying instance of explorer using the default config. THe difference being that I just toggled ON the launch new process via Tools/Folder Options.