Shell Windows Explorer to Specific Folder

[RNEELY]

Please help. I am trying to open Windows Explorer to specifically browse the Tasks folder from my program. Unfortunately Windows Explorer keeps opening to the "My Documents" folder.

// Locals
BOOL br=FALSE;
UINT cb=0;
TCHAR tszWinDir[MAX_PATH];
tszWinDir[0]=0;

STARTUPINFO         siStartupInfo;
memset(&siStartupInfo, 0, sizeof(siStartupInfo));

PROCESS_INFORMATION piProcessInfo;
memset(&piProcessInfo, 0, sizeof(piProcessInfo));

CString strAppPath;
strAppPath = _T("C:\\Winnt"); // default

CString strTasksPath;
strTasksPath = _T("C:\\Winnt"); // default

// Shell Explorer to the task folder
cb = GetWindowsDirectory(tszWinDir, MAX_PATH);
if(cb>0)
{
	strAppPath = tszWinDir;
	strTasksPath = tszWinDir;
}
strAppPath += _T("\\explorer.exe");
strTasksPath += _T("\\Tasks");

siStartupInfo.cb = sizeof(siStartupInfo);

br = CreateProcess(strAppPath,     // Application name
	const_cast<TCHAR*>((const TCHAR*)strTasksPath), // Application arguments
	0,
	0,
	FALSE,
	CREATE_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE,
	0,
	const_cast<TCHAR*>((const TCHAR*)strTasksPath),                              // Working directory
	&siStartupInfo,
	&piProcessInfo);

[RNEELY]

Well, when I replace the call to create process with the following it works, but I don't know why.

HINSTANCE hInst = ShellExecute(0,                           
                               "open",                      // Operation to perform
                               strAppPath,  // Application name
                               strTasksPath,           // Additional parameters
                               0,                           // Default directory
                               SW_SHOW);

[JohnCz]

	STARTUPINFO         siStartupInfo;
	memset(&siStartupInfo, 0, sizeof(siStartupInfo));
	
	PROCESS_INFORMATION piProcessInfo;
	memset(&piProcessInfo, 0, sizeof(piProcessInfo));
	
	CString strAppPath;

	LPTSTR pBuf = strAppPath.GetBufferSetLength(MAX_PATH);
	GetWindowsDirectory(pBuf, MAX_PATH);
	strAppPath.ReleaseBuffer();
	
	CString strTasksPath = " /e, /root, ";

	strTasksPath += strAppPath;	
	strTasksPath += _T("\\Tasks");
		
	strAppPath += _T("\\explorer.exe");

	siStartupInfo.cb = sizeof(siStartupInfo);
	
	if(!CreateProcess(strAppPath,     // Application name
		(LPTSTR)(LPCTSTR)strTasksPath, // Application arguments
		0,
		0,
		FALSE,
		CREATE_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE,
		0,
		NULL,                              // Working directory
		&siStartupInfo,
		&piProcessInfo))
    {
        AfxMessageBox("CreateProcess failed.");
		DWORD dw = GetLastError();
    }

Will open Tasks as root directory.

[pengch]

Like this.

CString cmdLine = strAppPath + CString(" ") + strTasksPath;

br = CreateProcess(NULL,     // Application name
	cmdLine,	0,
	0,
	FALSE,
	CREATE_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE,
	0,
	const_cast<TCHAR*>((const TCHAR*)strTasksPath),                              // Working directory
	&siStartupInfo,
	&piProcessInfo);

[RNEELY]

That is too wierd. Twas the extra space that did it.
Thank you both for your replies.