Comments on: Command Line Switches to Display Special Objects or Folders When Opening Windows Explorer

By: chris

chris — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:51:36 +0000

Hi.
This doesnt work in Vista… If anyone knows a way to get it working in Vista let me know. 2K, XP, and W7 work good.

By: JediNite

JediNite — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:20:43 +0000

Hi,

Here is the Command Line Switch for the “Games” folder if anyone is interested… I’ve tested this in windows 7 and it works

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /E,::{ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83b1-96b02CFE0D52}

Cheers,

JediNite

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:48:25 +0000

Great resource – thanks a million.

What also works is chaining the special names (like “My Documents”) with normal folders.

I use this now (via a batch file + shortcut) to open Explorer to the “target-folder” in “My Documents”:

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /E,::{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\target-folder

(This also shows the left folder pane view)

Just replace “target-folder” with whatever you want!

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