Can a link or button in a PDF open Windows Explorer to a folder for browsing?

Hello!
I am a ColdFusion and JavaScript developer, but was given a PDF search tool project that I have been developing in Acrobat XI Pro for use on Reader XI. I have most of it figured out and working very well with several JavaScript functions behind a form. My customer just asked for me to add a feature to allow the user to click a button or link and open up the library folder (with the documents being searched) in Windows Explorer so that they can browse to the file if they know exactly what they want.
So far, I have tried app.launchURL with the folder path and name. That did open it in Internet Explorer, but my customer wants it in Windows Explorer. I also tried app.browseForFile(), but I can't seem to specify the directory to start browsing it. I can't find anything online that indicates that this is even possible or how to do it. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Also, if it isn't possible, I can accept that. I just need to be able to tell my customer and I can't find any documentation on it.
Thank you very much for your help!

Sorry, not possible.
I want to correct myself. There is an old "hack" that still seems to work, which is to create a link to a file, but instead of pointing it to a file you point it to a folder. But Acrobat only lets you select a folder when you create such a link, so how to do it? Create a Word document with such a hyperlink and then use the PDFMaker plugin to convert the file to a PDF. This side-steps the Acrobat limitation and gives you a link to a folder, which when clicked will open it in Windows Explorer.
As I said, it's a bit of a hack and it's possible it will stop working if Adobe ever decides to block it, so use it with care.

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