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@glasskuter Haha! Yes, that’s funny! We all have very different habits and ways of working. I honestly can’t imagine using File Explorer any other way. I never work within a single folder, and I constantly need access across the file tree, sometimes between branches that are far apart. I tried...

Fingers crossed. On my machine, it does work. I re-tested 3 times on different library folders and the difference between shortcut created from within the library / shortcut created after full path navigation is reproducible. But it sill requires the patch. If you don't patch, it won't expand in...

@LesFerch You need the option "Expand to open folder" checked for anything to work, but not the "Show all folders" option. But I did some more testing and I think I understand what is happening to you. I can reproduce your issue if I create the original shortcut from within the library, and not...

@dacrone OK, I see what you are trying to achieve! It's interesting, but it's on a whole different level (much more ambitious) and it uses polling — it modifies File Explorer's behavior entirely. Personally, I wouldn't want my Explorer to work like that, but that's just me! There are actually...

To summarize, the python shortcut patcher I posted yesterday fixes tree expansion when navigating within an existing Explorer window, but when you open a shortcut from the desktop or the taskbar, Explorer spawns a new window and the navigation pane defaults to Home instead of syncing to the...

OK, that's a whole different subject. And my solution is probably not a solution to the original post either, which is again something else and closer to the "run shortcut from the desktop issue". I think in your case, you are stuck with the same issue as well. It's a complicated subject...

@LesFerch You’re right — I was able to reproduce exactly what you described. I never use desktop shortcuts to folders since I never go to the desktop while working, so I hadn’t tested that scenario until now. If the shortcut is launched from the desktop, it indeed doesn’t work (the navigation...

I know this is a very old thread, but since no satisfying solution has been found since then, you may still be interested! I posted a fix here: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/file-explorer-wont-expand-to-folder.19151/post-729790

Hi everyone, I'll start with a confession: I registered to this forum specifically to share this solution. That's how much this bug has been driving me crazy. The original post is two years old and people were still complaining about it in late 2025 — so I know I'm not alone in this particular...