How to open a new "My Computer" explorer window in C#?

[asasadadafaf]

Hi,

My question is very simple, as subject, How to open a new "My Computer" explorer window in C#? Just like you double click "My Computer" icon on the desktop. I tried to search around google but have no clue how to do that?

Many thanks for your help

 

[JurkMonkey]

using System.Diagnostics;

public static void OpenWindow(string path)
{
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(path);

//If the above doesn't work try
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("explorer.exe", path);
}

http://www.ubuntu.com/

 

[asasadadafaf]

thanks, but how should i setup the path if i want to point it to "My computer"? i tried to put "My computer" as path but it doesn't work,many thanks

 

[JurkMonkey]

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("explorer.exe", "");

http://www.ubuntu.com/

 

[asasadadafaf]

Thanks JurkMonkey, I tried this but it opens "My documents" instead, many thanks for your help!

 

[JurkMonkey]

I found that if you run explorer with no path it opens my documents but if you use empty string it opens My Computer.

That was on a Windows 2000 machine.

You may want to look into the Environment.SpecialFolder list and see if there's one for the computer path.

http://www.ubuntu.com/

 

[asasadadafaf]

Many thanks, i tried to do some research about Environment.SpecialFolder but it seems that this function will return a PAth actually, but you know "My computer" is not actually a Folder at all, and if i use this function for "My Computer" it will returns "blank" and leads going to "My documents" instead, any other hints for achieve this? many thanks again!

 

[asasadadafaf]

i tried to put " " as path, now it works , many thanks!

 

[phinoppix]

Cool trick! =) works on cmd line too (i'm running XP)!

c:\>explorer<space><space><enter>

 

[earthandfire]

In Vista you need:

C:\>explorer,<enter>