Launching Windows Explorer in a Specific Directory

Here's something I've wanted to do for ages in Windows: starting Explorer in a specific directory from a shortcut. The command-line is this:

C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe /n,/e,c:\somepath

Note that the commas are necessary. Refer to this knowledge base article for info on the commane-line switches.

Launch a VirtualBox Virtual Machine from a Shortcut

Found this link about creating a shortcut to launch a VirtualBox machine directly without having to first load the VirtualBox GUI. In short, the linux command-line is:

VBoxManage startvm <your virtual machine name>