Apologies, I have asked this before, I just came across a specific
example of where it doesn't work.

When looking at an Explorer window, I like to have a tree in the left
pane - not search, not favourites, not history, and not the default
thing.

I have View | Explorer Bar | Folders ticked (checked), and whatever it
is set to make all folders alike, and remember (or forget, whichever)
settings. IT works well enough most of the time.

But if I right-click from an entry in Firefox's "Downloads" window, and
select "Open Containing Folder", I get a left pane containing four sets
of tasks instead of my usual tree: Video Tasks, File and Folder Tasks,
Other Places, and Details. (I've mentioned Microsoft's Obsession With
Capital Letters Before.) Strangely, if I select the same option by
right-clicking one of the results of a search, I _do_ get my tree thing.
But it isn't just a Firefox funny: if I double-click on a .zip file, I
get a similar (though subtly different) left pane. (I haven't got WinZip
loaded - this is just XP's native .zip handler. And it isn't just with
the .zip handler - if, from this view of the .zip contents, I click the
"up" icon, then the right pane shows the contents of the folder
containing the .zip, including the .zip I started from, but the left
pane still doesn't show my tree.)

Anyone know a way of telling this OS that I never want to see that
format of left pane again?

(XP, Home, SP3, if that makes any difference.)
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