To have Explorer open at Drive D on your computer do these steps: Right-click the Explorer icon on your Desktop. Select Properties. In the Target box you should see something like: %SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe /e, c:\ Place your cursor in front of that last "C" and delete it. Now type D. Click Apply and Explorer will now open at Drive D when you next click on the icon. For your "detail format" query, have you clicked on the button to "Apply to All Folders" after you have made the change? > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:31:36 +1030 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] Windows Explorer > > > I am using Win XP Home. > Two simple questions. > I have all my programs on C Drive & all of my working files on D Drive. > How can I make Windows Explorer open the tree directly at the D Drive > Files? > Secondly, I like to view the files in 'detail' format. I have set the > Tools-Folder Options-View to be as I have personaly set up the folders > but > sometimes when Explorer opens it opens in Icons format which I find > annoying & > have to go back to reset them again. > Any help appreciated. > R >

For more than three years, I have had Win XP home and I am still learning things that Microsoft should have made clear to begin with. Or, did I once know that and have forgotten it? Alfred D. Eller http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm ======================================= n.east wrote: > To have Explorer open at Drive D on your computer do these steps: > Right-click the Explorer icon on your Desktop. > Select Properties. > In the Target box you should see something like: %SystemRoot%\Explorer.exe /e, c:\ > Place your cursor in front of that last "C" and delete it. > Now type D. > Click Apply and Explorer will now open at Drive D when you next click on the icon. > > For your "detail format" query, have you clicked on the button to "Apply to All Folders" after you have made the change? > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> Sent: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:31:36 +1030 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] Windows Explorer >> >> >> I am using Win XP Home. >> Two simple questions. >> I have all my programs on C Drive & all of my working files on D Drive. >> How can I make Windows Explorer open the tree directly at the D Drive >> Files? >> Secondly, I like to view the files in 'detail' format. I have set the >> Tools-Folder Options-View to be as I have personaly set up the folders >> but >> sometimes when Explorer opens it opens in Icons format which I find >> annoying & >> have to go back to reset them again. >> Any help appreciated. >> R >