dinkleberry

maslan
Total Commander and the sequencer plugin can do that. Take a look.
http://www.ghisler.com/ [ghisler.com]
http://en.totalcmd.pl/download/wfx/Oth/Sequences [en.totalcmd.pl]

Good find. How did you come across that?

I've looked into Explorer mods/replacements before and can't see Explorer being able to do this. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Explorer#Extensibility [en.wikipedia.org]

I haven't seen an alternative app that will be able to either, without extensive work.

ragupasta
That usually happens automatically for me. All my save files open with whatever desktop layout was last used.

If I'm working on just one machine, that's the case for me, too.

Sometimes the project file might have things going on that depend on certain panes/networks being displayed (e.g. CHOPS like the MIDI out CHOP don't cook unless there is a Motion View pane pointed towards them). If I wanted to distribute this hip file, it won't work out of the box - the receiver would need to manually set up the correct panes.