I think you can get folders to open in the "details" view if you set the one you are viewing and then go to the Tools menu, select "Folder Options" then the "View" Tab and click the "Apply to all folders" button. There is a way to assign another location as "My Documents", Or is it to Move My Documents to another location. I cannot move mine now, it is too large for the other drive. --- OK, I moved a LOT of things to a TEMP folder on my C:\ drive from My Documents. Then I right clicked on my documents Selected "Properties, clicked on "Move" Then I clicked the + before My Computer, clicked on my "K:" drive and clicked OK. Now when I right click on my documents and properties, its "Target" is "K:\" -- I sure have a lot of drives!-- When I open Windows Explorer, it opens to My Documents which is "K:\" Now, all I have to do is remember how to put it back where it was ;-) Alfred D. Eller http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm ======================================= [email protected] wrote: > 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 >