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Windows Explorer Default Location - Digerati - 2003-12-18
By Default, Windows Explorer opens to the My Documents folder. However, you can change this so that Explorer will open to the folder of your choosing. Simply right-click the icon that you use to open Explorer (see the previous tip for Start Menu locations), and choose Properties. In the Target field, add the following to %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe:
/n, /e, path
For instance, I like Explorer to open at the root of my C Drive, so my Target field looks like this:
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n, /e, c:\