Change the folder that Windows Explorer starts at

Solution 1:

Have you tried the method that used to work in XP and Vista?:

• Open Explorer, and go to your Start Menu folder.
• Find the shortcut for Explorer, right click on it, and select Properties.
• Click on the Shortcut tab, and change the Target so it reads: c:\windows\EXPLORER.EXE /n, /e, d:\myfolder (where c:\windows is your Windows directory, and d:\myfolder is the directory in which you want Explorer to start.)

From Easy Tweaks (Vista)

On my XP machine I have "Start in" set to "%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%" which opens Explorer in My Computer from where I can see all the drives etc.

NOTE I haven't got Windows-7 to check this, but I thought it ought to be mentioned

Solution 2:

This would be the target line to open Windows Explorer with 'My Computer':

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,::{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d}