Here's how to customize the start location of Windows Explorer:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130510/EN-US/
 
For example, I edited the properties of the shortcut with this target: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e, /select, s:\data
 
This starts Windows Explorer on the S: Drive, and selects the data folder.

The following is a task outline for building an Ubuntu-based web-server to run Joomla and JomSocial.  I created this for my own notes, so apologies if it's a bit cryptic.

Ubuntu server

• minimum install
  
• choose LAMP & SSH server during install
• static IP address
  

Install packages