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Explorer left pane - as tree under ALL circumstances?
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.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** "Scheisse," said Pooh, trying out his German. |
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Explorer left pane - as tree under ALL circumstances?
Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:05:23 +0100 from J. P. Gilliver (John)
: But if I right-click from an entry in Firefox's "Downloads" window, and select "Open Containing Folder", It's the difference between Open and Explore. Open is the Fisher- Price view that you and I hate, Explore is the two-paned view with tree at left. If Explore isn't an option, you're stuck, as far as I'm aware. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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