In message , Mayayana
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote
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| I think we may also be talking about different things; I was talking
| about the left pane in a normal Explorer window. I'm not sure what the
| "Folders Explorer _Bar_" is, but I don't think it's what I was talking
| about.

The left pane is where an Explorer Bar *can* be. The
other option is just to have a folder window. If you have
and Explorer Bar you can choose. The default is Folders.

Yes, I know you can turn off the tree pane; I've occasionally done so by
mistake, and found it tedious working out how to get it back.

To me, "bar" implies something long and narrow, and in the Windows
context, usually horizontal (though I know not always). I wouldn't have
_described_ the tree pane as a bar, though I know it can be made narrow.

On my system, when I go to View - Explorer Bar I see
Search, Favorites, History, my own custom bar, and
Folders. What you see is actually a shell extension. A
separate window that gets loaded into folder windows.

I know something of shell extensions - the news/mail/etc. client I use
(Turnpike) is one, and is what has kept me on 32 bit. (No, it's not a 16
bit application, it's 32, but needs the 32 bit shell. For Windows 7, it
worked with all the pre-release versions of the 64-bit version, but not
the final release; AIUI the pre-release versions still included a copy
of some necessary file[s], but the final one didn't. Or something like
that.)

That started with Win98 and Active Desktop. As far as
I know it still works in newer Windows versions. I've used
my own bar on Win7, but I haven't looked into whether
Win10 still allows shell extensions. It may be complicated

I'm told Turnpike still works in 10-32, though I _imagine_ 10-32 is a
rare beast.

by the IE changes. Active Desktop began an integration
between IE and Explorer Microsoft came up with various
shell extension options. Explorer Bar, Property Pages,
handlers for drop, context menu, etc, Band objects
(Explorer toolbars) and so on.

Window objects show up in Explorer *and* IE. They also
get access to what's going on in each. Gradually, Microsoft
have backed away from the integration. But most of it was
still there, last I looked.


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