Just bought new computer with Windows Vista. When I open Windows Explorer,
the cursor goes straight to "Start Menu", about middle of the list of
folders, and with all subfolders open. As the start menu has a button on the
scrren already, why do they think this is necessary? And as the "system" is
set up with a shortcut to "Documents" at the top of the list, and this is
where most of us want to go, why? Is there any way to change it? I don't
want to see every folder and subfolder, I just want to go to my files. I am
convinced that the boffins don't understand how ordinary people think

How are you opening Windows Explorer?
When I run 'Windows Explorer' from the start orb, I am placed at
walraven/documents.

Michael
Vista Home premium


"bwh" wrote in message
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Just bought new computer with Windows Vista. When I open Windows
Explorer,
the cursor goes straight to "Start Menu", about middle of the list of
folders, and with all subfolders open. As the start menu has a button on
the
scrren already, why do they think this is necessary? And as the "system"
is
set up with a shortcut to "Documents" at the top of the list, and this is
where most of us want to go, why? Is there any way to change it? I don't
want to see every folder and subfolder, I just want to go to my files. I
am
convinced that the boffins don't understand how ordinary people think

Create a shortcut on your desktop to wherever you want to go.

"bwh" wrote in message
...
Just bought new computer with Windows Vista. When I open Windows
Explorer,
the cursor goes straight to "Start Menu", about middle of the list of
folders, and with all subfolders open. As the start menu has a button on
the
scrren already, why do they think this is necessary? And as the "system"
is
set up with a shortcut to "Documents" at the top of the list, and this is
where most of us want to go, why? Is there any way to change it? I don't
want to see every folder and subfolder, I just want to go to my files. I
am
convinced that the boffins don't understand how ordinary people think

"bwh" ha scritto
Just bought new computer with Windows Vista. When I open Windows
Explorer,
the cursor goes straight to "Start Menu", about middle of the list of
folders, and with all subfolders open. As the start menu has a button on
the
scrren already, why do they think this is necessary? And as the "system"
is
set up with a shortcut to "Documents" at the top of the list, and this is
where most of us want to go, why? Is there any way to change it? I don't
want to see every folder and subfolder, I just want to go to my files. I
am
convinced that the boffins don't understand how ordinary people think

strange behavior. anyway you should already have an icon with your login
name on the desktop.

right-clic-drag the computer icon to the quick launch bar (if this is not
open, right click in the taskbar toolbars check it).

right clic the computer icon in the quick launch properties and in the
'target' field put
C:\Windows\explorer.exe C:\
or
C:\Windows\explorer.exe C:\Users\yourloginname\Documents
or whatever you like

i myself like better the quicklaunch as shortcuts there only need one clic.
if you prefer having the shortcut on the desktop:
right clic on the desktop new shortcut
and paste the above line.

you can set as many shortcuts as you want like this, renaming them like the
folders they link to.

hth, z.