Windows Explorer button shows only libraries

A few days in a new pc with new to me Windows 7 and the Windows Explorer button suddenly only shows 'Libraries' records and files recently viewed. How do I show the full c: / drive once again, with my Photos, etc., and usb drive E when you use)?

1. first of all, you will need to open Windows Explorer shortcut properties. If you want to change the folder target of the shortcut in Explorer Windows that is pinned to the taskbar in Windows 7, press the 'SHIFT' key and right-click on the icon in the taskbar. It will open the Windows XP/Vista old style context menu where you should select the option "Properties".

Alternatively, you can right-click on the icon that will show the jumplist. Now, even once with the right button on the entry of "Windows Explorer" presents in the jumplist and select the properties option:

For the other shortcuts in Windows Explorer as a shortcut in all programs menu or in the office, you do not have to press the SHIFT key. Just right click on the shortcut and select Properties.

2 once you open the properties of the shortcut, you will see %windir%\explorer.exe written text in the targettext box. You just need to change this text string to customize the destination for the Windows Explorer shortcut folder.

To open the my computer when you click on the Windows Explorer shortcut, just add an blank space, and double quotes ("'") at the end of the text in the text box target as shown in the following screenshot:

If the entire text string would become %windir%\explorer.exe ""

That's all. Now whenever you click on the Windows Explorer shortcut, it will open the my computer window instead of displaying the default libraries.

3 if you want to set the target to a drive or folder, do not add double quotes. Just add the path to the end. By example, if you want to open the C: drive on the target%windir%\explorer.exe C: text string or if you want to open a folder e.g. D:\Setup, then set the text string target on %windir%\explorer.exe D:\Setup

You can see its very simple and easy to change the shortcut to Windows Explorer startup folder in Windows 7.

NOTE: You can also use environment variables to change the folder target to the Documents folder, profile folder, etc. You can get the complete list of all the variables of environment here.

PS: If you want to restore the functionality of Windows Explorer shortcut and want to open libraries once again, simply remove newly added text in the target text box strings and assign %windir%\explorer.exe again.

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