Otak Atik [dot] Com » Windows Explorer Tricks http://www.otakatik.com Empowering Computer Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:42:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Change Default Drive on Windows Explorer http://www.otakatik.com/change-default-drive-on-windows-explorer/ http://www.otakatik.com/change-default-drive-on-windows-explorer/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:16:52 +0000 Edi Kwie http://www.otakatik.com/?p=120 By Default, Windows Explorer will open My Computer or your home hard drive (usually on drive C:) every time your open it. Whereas, I need to open hard drive D: not drive C:
After, I looked on magazines, I found the way. And it’s just a simple, just add its parameters.

And here are the parameters:

  1. Open Start -> All Programs -> Accessories menu, right click Windows Explorer shortcut and then click Properties.
    Right click My Computer shortcut
  2. Click Shortcut tab, in target box, you’ll find that it fills with %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe. Just add parameter /n,/e,d: so your target be %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,d: and then click OK button.
    Add parameter
  3. Try to open Windows Explorer and your hard drive D: will open first.
    Result

You can change the letter drive with your own favorite drive. Just replace the last parameter with your drive letter. For example, you want open drive F: first, just write %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,f: on target box.

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The option is located at Explorer option; just click Tools -> Folder Options, click View tab and click Show hidden files and folders option under Hidden files and folders section and then click OK. And your ‘secret’ is exposing now. So, to make it safer, just hide that option. If you hide it at least you don’t make it easy to enable that option. This trick will use Registry Editor.

1. Click Start -> Run, enter regedit in textbox then press Enter.
Open Registry Editor

2. In Registry Editor, navigate to registry path: HKEY_CURRENT_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced \ Folder \ Hidden.
Hidden key

3. Find Type value on right panel in Hidden key. By default, Type value has group value.
Type key

4. To make this trick be works, just empty its value by double click Type value, empty its data and then click OK button.
Edit Type key

5. And if you did it right, you’ll see the result like picture below.

Registry result

6. Close Registry Editor.

7. Now, try to open Explorer Options again.
Result

Make sure before you hide the option, set the option to Do not show hidden files and folders first.
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