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| Thread ID: 82171 | 2007-08-18 00:07:00 | Okay to move Start Menu ? | Misty (368) | Press F1 |
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| 582226 | 2007-08-18 00:07:00 | My hard drive is partitioned into C and D drives. All my documents, messages in and out from Outlook Express, photos and music are on my D drive. In other words my data is kept on the D drive. When I open up Windows Explorer it primarily shows the C drive with sub folders. The D drive does not show any open folders. As most of the time I want to look at or check something to do with the D drive, this is a pain. The reason that the contents of the C drive seem to be opened up seems to be that the Start Menu is highlighted. Perhaps I should move the Start Menu to the D drive? I cannot, despite spending a lot of time already, identify any settings I can change to do this any other way. Or am I missing something? Misty :confused: |
Misty (368) | ||
| 582227 | 2007-08-18 00:15:00 | ? You CANT move the start menu. You can move the whole taskbar around the screen tho, once you unlock it. Are you talking about start on the bottom, or something else? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 582228 | 2007-08-18 00:56:00 | I think he's talking about the files that the Start menu looks up - located in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Start Menu IIRC. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 582229 | 2007-08-18 01:08:00 | What I mean is when I right click on Start and pick explore -- ie then I get Windows Explorer. That shows me the drives and folders etc. Some of the folders are open to show sub-folders --- the ones located on the C drive (and Start Menu happens to be highlighted by default). D drive shows too of course, but the folders do not show and these are the ones I almost invariably want to see. Obviously it is straightforward to open them. Nevertheless for default I want to see just the C drive with no open folders and the D drive with the folders showing. Misty :) NB - I am not talking about the desktop |
Misty (368) | ||
| 582230 | 2007-08-18 02:12:00 | Instead of using your mouse on the Start button (by which you are requesting to 'explore' the Start menu folder), try using the Windows keyboard button + <E> - this will open with My Computer highlighted, which I suspect will put you only one click away from seeing your D partition. Otherwise, it's probably a registry tweak that you need to change the default - something I am not qualified to advise on... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 582231 | 2007-08-18 02:20:00 | Craete a shortcut to Windows Explorer on the desktop. Right click, select Properties. In Target type: C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE /n,/e,D:\ |
pctek (84) | ||
| 582232 | 2007-08-18 02:53:00 | Very clever - good one pctek!! :thumbs: Any way to assign a hot key to that?? |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 582233 | 2007-08-18 05:09:00 | Right-click the shortcut select properties. In the Shortcut Key field , replace "None" with a key you want to use. For example if you type A, whenever you press Ctrl+Alt+A Explorer will open, looking into your D:\.:eek: | jwil1 (65) | ||
| 582234 | 2007-08-18 05:34:00 | good one pctek!! Used it for years, I hate MSs defaults....... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 582235 | 2007-08-18 06:38:00 | Craete a shortcut to Windows Explorer on the desktop . Right click, select Properties . In Target type: C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER . EXE /n,/e,D:\ Yep, that's the shortcut that I have on my Quick Launch bar and you can add it to your Desktop as well . You can make the Target whatever folder you wish, eg mine is: C:\WINDOWS\explorer . exe /n,/e,D:\Documents Also, in the "Start in:" field put in the following: %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% |
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