Darryl, If you'd rather have it open up showing the C:\ drive's contents in the right pane, you'll have to right click on the Windows Explorer shortcut and edit the Target line to the following (just copy and paste the example you choose to use since the syntax must be exactly as they appear below). %windir%\Explorer.exe /n,/e,C:\ You should also be able to use these. I'm assuming that you've installed Windows onto the C:\ drive and that you didn't change the main directory's folder name during the Windows installation. For WinME: C:\Windows\Explorer.exe /n,/e,C:\ For WinXP: C:\WinNT\Explorer.exe /n,/e,C:\ If you get the results you're after, remember to change them for ALL of the Explorer shortcuts (Start Menu, Desktop, QuickLaunch Taskbar, 'Send To' Menu, etc.). Peace, GMan PCTechTalk Owner ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darryl" <minoddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:20 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- where is the registry is this ........ From a default install of windows ME and Win XP, when you open it explorer, it default opens to my documents, does someone know where it is that tells explorer to open there, I know I can put something different in the link in properties, but I was also curious where it was also at telling it to go to my documents Darryl To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/