Saturday, February 23, 2008

Opening Explorer from My Computer

By default, when you click on the My Computer icon, you get a display of all your drives, the Control Panel etc. If you would like to have this open the Explorer:
  1. Start Regedit
  2. Search for My Computer or 20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D
  3. This should bring you to HKey_Classes_Root \ CLSID
  4. Expand the key {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
  5. Right click on Shell
  6. Select New / Key and type Open and press the Enter key
  7. Right click on Open
  8. Select New / Key and type Command and press the Enter key
  9. Double click on the Default for Command and type Explorer.exe for the value
  10. Now when you click on My Computer, the Explorer will start
  11. If you want to return to normal, simply delete the Open key

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