You can change the default location where Windows Explorer opens up to. Windows Explorer opens to a default location, usually My Documents, but this is often not the location that you wish to see. You can change where it “points to” by default. To do this, right-click the shortcut to Windows Explorer and press “properties,” then change the target from “%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe” to “%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n, /e, [location]” and press OK. Next time you click on Windows Explorer, it will spawn a distinct new explorer window pointed to that location; for example, if I typed in C:\Drop for the location, I would get an explorer window that opened to C:\Drop by default.
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