I am a little 'hazy' regarding the exact nature of your problem...
I am thinking of two possibilities for what it is you are attempting to
describe ;
1). Explorer shows folders in it's left-pane on starting, but does not
automatically expand sub-folders and needs to have the [+] sign clicked on
in order to show them.
The solution to this is to go to ;
"Control Panel" "Folder Options" "View" (tab)
....and scroll down until you find the option : "Display simple folder view
in Explorer's folder-list." ...and make sure that it has a "checkmark" in
the appropriate box.
2). Explorer either starts *without* showing the folder-pane OR, when
right-click "Explore from here" is selected, on any folder, it opens in a
new window - absent of it's folder-pane.
This latter problem is caused by an incorrect "open" entry for Explorer's
"folder" association.
It should read :
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\Shell\open\command]
@=explorer.exe /e,/idlist,%I,%L
....the important bit being the [/e,] flag, which, when entered on the
command-line as a parameter to [Explorer.exe] makes it open with the
folder-pane visible.
You can also make "Explore from here" the default for opening "folders"
Both checking the command to open "folders" is correct and that "Explore
from here" is made the default command to open "folders", can be done from
;
"Control Panel" "Folder Options" "File Types" (tab)
....then scroll down to "Folder" then press on the "Advanced" button then
edit the relevant commands.
Or, again, you can check the associated commands for opening "folders" by
opening [regedit.exe] then navigating to :
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\Shell\open\command]
....and ;
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\Shell\explore\command]
....to check both have the crucial [/e,] flag (as in above example).
And to set the default command to open "folders", set the "default" value,
directly under the "Shell" sub-key, to "explore".
OR, alternatively, click on the link below to start the download of
[folder_reg.zip]
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/fileassoc/folder_reg.zip
Open the zip-file and copy it's contents of a single file [folder_reg.reg]
to your hard-drive and double-click on it and answer [ok] to import the
registry settings.
This will repair the file-association of "Folders" in Win XP.
==
Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
...
When I started using XP on he
In Windows Explorer, I have the left pane showing the tree of folders
(much as it was, by default I think, in Windows 9x).
If I opened a sub-folder by clicking on it in the _right_ pane, rather
than expanding in the left pane, the left pane showed _just_ the
sub-folder I'd opened - as if it was the only sub-folder which the parent
folder contained. If I entered other folders in that parent folder, they
also appeared in the left pane, but all the folders within the parent
folder were never shown in the left pane unless I explicitly clicked on
the [+] to expand it.
Now, if I enter any sub-folder in the right pane, that folder _and all
the others at the same level_ show in the left pane.
What have I (or a Microsoft update or ...?) changed?
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985
MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
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Private
Frazer convention on a bus whose brakes have just failed as it heads
towards a
cliff. - Eddie Mair, Radio Times 20-26 November 2010