How do I bring up an explorer window on my Palm size PC?

One can create a Files.lnk file that when selected will bring up an explorer window.   The file is created on a desktop computer and then transferred to the appropriate directory on the palm size pc using Mobile Devices.  Here are the steps:

  1. Start up notepad on your desktop computer
  2. Type the following: 3"\"
  3. Save the file with the name Files.lnk (Note: the key thing about the file name is that it have the lnk extension.  You can name it anything that you want.)
  4. Exit out of notepad
  5. Connect your device to your desktop computer
  6. Using Mobile Devices and Windows Explorer, copy Files.lnk to the \Windows\Start Menu folder on your device.

After copying the file tap on Start.  You will find that a Files menu option has been added.  When you tap on it an Explorer window will open up, starting at the \Windows directory.

You can modify the file slightly to bring up other directories by changing what you type in step 2 above from 3"\" to 3#"\"

The '3' portion of the string is specifying the length of the string to follow.   So using that information one can make shortcuts which will bring up an Explorer window starting at any directory that they wish. For example, the length of \Storage Card\ is 16, so to bring up a window that starts in the \Storage Card directory the string that you type in step 2 above would be 16#"\Storage Card\"

Thanks to Jason Patterson who posted this trick in the msn.computingcentral.windowsce.devices.palmpc forum on MSN Computing Central!

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