How would you like an Icon in Windows that wil pop up an explorer window that is rooted to your local repository, only your local repository, and nothing else?

desktop-icon-repository.png

Simple. Create a new shortcut on your desktop with the following for the "Location of the item." field.

%windir%\explorer.exe /n,/e,/root,%userprofile%\.m2\repository\

When you launch your shortcut, you'll see the following.

repo-explorer-view.png