Windows fails the EASE of USE BADLY!!! 50

OK, this just in from the XP group:

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How to get Explorer to show you the "My Computer" view:

Windows Explorer Create a shortcut to My Computer

Right click the Windows Explorer shortcut Target box Replace text with:

%SystemRoot%-explorer.exee,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1068 plus 1-A2D8-08002B30309D}

Click OK.

HOW TO: Change Windows Explorer Default View to My Computer

To test this, paste the following in the Start Run box and click OK...

%SystemRoot%-explorer.exee,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1068 plus 1-A2D8-08002B30309D}

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I just *love* that long string of nonsense.... No, I'm not making this up.... Look it up in the KB article quoted. MS posts that with a straight face! I'd be embarbutted to have my name on something so hackish...

And what if I want to start Explorer in some other view? How do I do that? I'd like to have my default set to e:-bin , which is where I put all of my stuff... Anyone want to guess at the string I'd have to put in there?

And this is easier than a file manager in linux exactly how?

Intuitive enough for Mr. Strunk? Really easy for those Windows newbies...

Question for the crowd: How is the uninitiated supposed to *come up* with that? Or do you just wait for those golden crumbs to fall from the lips of Bill?