In message , Tim Meddick
writes:
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.

No, that's how I want and have it.
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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.
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...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.
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No, this is not the problem - I know /e, and always use it in shortcuts
too. But I've market your post as "keep" because of the lots of useful
regedit locations, thanks.

I'll try to explain with an example. Let's say I have a folder x; I have
the focus on it in the left pane, but it is closed ([+]). Since I have
the focus on it, I can see in the right pane that it contains
sub-folders a, b, and c. I now activate b in the right pane - either by
clicking on it or tabbing to it, moving down one, and pressing enter.

What happens is that, obviously, b becomes the active folder - with
_its_ contents shown in the right pane. However, in the left pane, b
used to appear below x, but not a and c; I can't remember if the [+]
next to x used to change to [-] or not. I was always able to make a and
c also appear in the left pane if I wanted them to, by for example going
to x in the left pane and pressing rightarrow. What happens now is that,
as soon as I activate b in the right pane, a and c also appear in the
left pane, as they always did anyway in Windows 9x. (Not a problem if x
really does only have three subfolders, but if it has lots, the left
pane can move a lot.)

I don't know what I (or something else) has done to change the
behaviour.
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