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How to run Windows Explorer from an application

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    I have been struggling to find information on how to achieve the following. My small app creates a folder on the file system. I then want to run an instance of Windows Explorer and show the folder. I want to do this in a way so that Explorer will keep running even after my app is terminated. I assume this is achievable and apologise if it is trivial. Cheers Tim

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      I have been struggling to find information on how to achieve the following. My small app creates a folder on the file system. I then want to run an instance of Windows Explorer and show the folder. I want to do this in a way so that Explorer will keep running even after my app is terminated. I assume this is achievable and apologise if it is trivial. Cheers Tim

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      Christian Graus
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      TJO1 wrote:

      apologise if it is trivial.

      Nothing is trivial, until you know how to do it :-) Process.Start("c:\") should, I believe, open explorer at the c drive. I think it's in System.Threading.

      Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

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        TJO1 wrote:

        apologise if it is trivial.

        Nothing is trivial, until you know how to do it :-) Process.Start("c:\") should, I believe, open explorer at the c drive. I think it's in System.Threading.

        Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

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        Christian Graus wrote:

        Process.Start("c:\") should, I believe, open explorer at the c drive.

        Thanks very much Christian. You are spot on. I doubt if I would have found this in a month of Sundays. Cheers Tim

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