What's the path to "This PC" on Windows 10?

[frew]

Hello,

Can someone please tell me what the path to "This PC" is?

I have a script that works fine to open folders with lines like this:

ShellExecute("C:\Program Files")

...but I don't know what path (or Macros?) to use to show all the drives at once, like when I click on the "This PC" icon shortcut.

Thanks.

 

[alienclone]

This PC is not a path.

a quick search in AutoIt for "list all drives" gave me the function DriveGetDrive.

 

[Subz]

You can use something like:

ShellExecute(@WindowsDir & "\explorer.exe", '/e,::{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d}')

 

[Gianni]

or also simply

ShellExecute("::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}")

have a look here for other folders : https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/appendix/clsid.htm

or search for GUID shortcuts on google or (better) on https://duckduckgo.com/

Edited September 3, 2019 by Chimp
GUID

[frew]

14 hours ago, alienclone said:

This PC is not a path.

a quick search in AutoIt for "list all drives" gave me the function DriveGetDrive.

 

This does not seem to open the window "This PC".

Not sure how to get that to do this.

[frew]

9 hours ago, Subz said:

You can use something like:

ShellExecute(@WindowsDir & "\explorer.exe", '/e,::{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d}')

 

This one does open "This PC" windows, but forces Navigation pane to always be enabled it seems.

[frew]

8 hours ago, Chimp said:

or also simply

ShellExecute("::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}")

have a look here for other folders : https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/appendix/clsid.htm

or search for GUID shortcuts on google or (better) on https://duckduckgo.com/

This does what I want. Opens "This PC" window,  and also allows Windows to remember

my view settings to have navigation pane disabled.

With a search for search for GUID shortcuts I noticed this page:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3123-clsid-key-guid-shortcuts-list-windows-10-a.html

Will explore these a bit.

[frew]

Thanks all for the help and ideas.

[NassauSky]

This thread just caught my eye as I'm having the same problem. Anyone have a solution. There was no magic CLSID but I noticed what I think is a quirk.   The MY COMPUTER CLSID worked for FolderOpenDialog yet it didn't work for FileOpenDialog.  

Any other ideas?