A very simple, yet incredibly useful way to use explorer view by default... why isn't this an option you can simply check?
Not development in any way, but I thought I would share because it helped me so much! This has bothered me for years, explorer view is about 10x more handy than the standard way XP opens folders. But there was no way to make it default. Of course I could right click and choose 'Explore' but that's just too much extra work. There is a simple way to make this default behavior.
open Regedit (start->run regedit) and find
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\ddeexec
and modify the value from
[ViewFolder("%l", %I, %S]
to read
[explorefolder("%l", %I, %S]
and you are all set.