Newly created desktop shortcut disappears with every boot

[ljdarby]

As far back as Win7, I have been using the following created desktop shortcut for Windows Explorer to open my favorite directory (Larry) within explorer.exe. The shortcut is given here: c:\windows\explorer.exe /n, /e, E:\Larry
Having recently upgraded to Win11 Pro from Win10 Pro, I find that this desktop shortcut disappears at every bootup. As a test, I have copied the newly created shortcut to both my taskbar and the start folders- on bootup, all three locations show NO shortcut. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem which never appeared in Win7 nor Win10?

 

[davehc]

I am not familiar with exactly how you create the shortcut?
What I do, say in your computer, is open explorer and right click "Larry" and drag it to the desktop, creating the shortcut when the text appears?
I have it now, whilst I write, from my own username

 

[ljdarby]

I am not familiar with exactly how you create the shortcut?
What I do, say in your computer, is open explorer and right click "Larry" and drag it to the desktop, creating the shortcut when the text appears?
I have it now, whilst I write, from my own username

See the second line of my original question- I want "Larry" to pop up on activating explorer because that is my download directory and where I place all ongoing present and future projects/programs/apps. The string is years old, stated previously, I have been using it without fail thru at least 3 versions of Windows.

 

[davehc]

As I said - I cannot quite see the purpose of the "n" and "e" ?
By dragging to the desktop, this is all I have:

C:\Users\David

 

[Sir_George]

As I said - I cannot quite see the purpose of the "n" and "e" ?
By dragging to the desktop, this is all I have:

C:\Users\David

See the link below for an explanation of the switches.

Explorer Switches - One Computer Guy

/n, – Opens a new Explorer window This will be at the current directory It will show a single pane with your files and folders of the current directory /e, – Opens expanded folder This options show the typical two pane display Options /root – Selects a folder as the root of the […]

www.onecomputerguy.com

 

[ljdarby]

To you who offered advice and expertise on resolving my problem, thanks. Removing the N & E switches solved my problem completely it seems. Two days of many reboots without a single problem with my explorer shortcut. Many thanks...