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There might be a switch that opens it directly to the view that you want and does not create a new explorer process. The same view can be created multiple ways.
Silly silly me - to think that I understood what the W7 OS was doing when it comes to the absence of the /n switch.
The video below is from a Virtual Machine (VM) with nothing installed. (Virtual box guest additions and OS updates are installed.) The pinned shortcut has not been modified. Process Explorer has been set to show changes for 9 seconds. In other words, when a new explorer process shows up, it will be green for a while. When explorer exits RAM, it will turn red and will stay red for about 9 seconds. As opposed to the task manager window which shows explorer processes coming and going rather quickly. Task Manager's update speed is set to High.
There does not seem to be any rhyme or reason to when a new explorer process will appear. And they can go away without closing the explorer window that caused them (or maybe caused them). These are definately different from the new "persistent" processes that you get with the /n switch. But I can no longer state that the absence of that /n switch will prevent a new explorer process.
Just letting the VM sit for a while or doing other things does not make these new processes of the explorer app come and go... so they seem to be tied to opening new explorer windows. Even if those explorer windows will are managed by the same explorer process that is presenting the desktop and taskbar.
(Best viewed at 720p and in the full screen mode.)
Last edited by UsernameIssues; 26 Aug 2013 at 19:03. Reason: typo