Extra Windows in File Explorer

This may have been asked before - I hope not.
I have had this problem for a while, and it is exaspirating.
Every time I use File Explorer to look at the content of a folder, I
get two folders - the second sometimes a dupe of the first. It is
usually smaller and quite useless I think - and I have to delete it
every time.

It did not always do that - so there must be some setting to control
this. Can anyone weigh in?

Tom

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I
get two folders - the second sometimes a dupe of the first.

Do you mean that two windows open? or that a second folder is created in
the folder that you are examining

It is
usually smaller and quite useless I think - and I have to delete it
every time.

Do you actually delete it using the Delete key or the delete command in
the contect menu?
Or do you click X to close the window?

wrote:
This may have been asked before - I hope not.
I have had this problem for a while, and it is exaspirating.
Every time I use File Explorer to look at the content of a folder, I
get two folders - the second sometimes a dupe of the first. It is
usually smaller and quite useless I think - and I have to delete it
every time.

It did not always do that - so there must be some setting to control
this. Can anyone weigh in?

Tom


This was a bug in a previous Win10 release; since then cured by updates.
Update to latest.

If it's still there, try this;
Click on Organize on left top corner of Win Explorer; select Folder and
search options; under General choose open each folder in same window;
click on Apply and click on OK.

Ed

On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 19:19:21 +0100, Ed Cryer
wrote:

wrote:
This may have been asked before - I hope not.
I have had this problem for a while, and it is exaspirating.
Every time I use File Explorer to look at the content of a folder, I
get two folders - the second sometimes a dupe of the first. It is
usually smaller and quite useless I think - and I have to delete it
every time.

It did not always do that - so there must be some setting to control
this. Can anyone weigh in?

Tom


This was a bug in a previous Win10 release; since then cured by updates.
Update to latest.

If it's still there, try this;
Click on Organize on left top corner of Win Explorer; select Folder and
search options; under General choose open each folder in same window;
click on Apply and click on OK.

Ed

tThanks.
I checked and I already have that option checked.
Tom

On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:29:26 +0100, UnsteadyKen
wrote:

In article ,
says...
I
get two folders - the second sometimes a dupe of the first.

Do you mean that two windows open? or that a second folder is created in
the folder that you are examining


Thanks for response.
The first.

It is
usually smaller and quite useless I think - and I have to delete it
every time.

Do you actually delete it using the Delete key or the delete command in
the contect menu?
Or do you click X to close the window?

The last.
Tom

wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 19:19:21 +0100, Ed Cryer
wrote:

wrote:
This may have been asked before - I hope not.
I have had this problem for a while, and it is exaspirating.
Every time I use File Explorer to look at the content of a folder, I
get two folders - the second sometimes a dupe of the first. It is
usually smaller and quite useless I think - and I have to delete it
every time.

It did not always do that - so there must be some setting to control
this. Can anyone weigh in?

Tom


This was a bug in a previous Win10 release; since then cured by updates.
Update to latest.

If it's still there, try this;
Click on Organize on left top corner of Win Explorer; select Folder and
search options; under General choose open each folder in same window;
click on Apply and click on OK.

Ed

tThanks.
I checked and I already have that option checked.
Tom


Run the system file checker for corrupted files and DLLS;

Sfc /scannow will inspect all of the important Windows files on your
computer, including Windows DLL files. If System File Checker finds an
issue with any of these protected files, it will replace it.

Follow the steps:

Press Windows key + X and select Command prompt (Admin).
At the Command Prompt, type: sfc/scannow


Ed

wrote:
This may have been asked before - I hope not.
I have had this problem for a while, and it is exaspirating.
Every time I use File Explorer to look at the content of a folder, I
get two folders - the second sometimes a dupe of the first. It is
usually smaller and quite useless I think - and I have to delete it
every time.

It did not always do that - so there must be some setting to control
this. Can anyone weigh in?

Tom

Well, it can't be the Details pane, because that doesn't have an X.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

Could you show us a picture ?

Or alternately, open a Command Prompt window, and "dir" the
offending view you're trying to look at. Just in case it's
a file name issue.

cd /d C:\path\to\offender

dir filenames.txt

notepad filenames.txt

and see if there is anything strange, like a space
at the end of a filename. In other words, some item
that was created by a web browser, that happens to
violate some well-known rule about File Explorer.

Paul

On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 22:33:16 +0100, Ed Cryer
wrote:

wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 19:19:21 +0100, Ed Cryer
wrote:

wrote:
This may have been asked before - I hope not.
I have had this problem for a while, and it is exaspirating.
Every time I use File Explorer to look at the content of a folder, I
get two folders - the second sometimes a dupe of the first. It is
usually smaller and quite useless I think - and I have to delete it
every time.

It did not always do that - so there must be some setting to control
this. Can anyone weigh in?

Tom


This was a bug in a previous Win10 release; since then cured by updates.
Update to latest.

If it's still there, try this;
Click on Organize on left top corner of Win Explorer; select Folder and
search options; under General choose open each folder in same window;
click on Apply and click on OK.

Ed

tThanks.
I checked and I already have that option checked.
Tom


Run the system file checker for corrupted files and DLLS;

Sfc /scannow will inspect all of the important Windows files on your
computer, including Windows DLL files. If System File Checker finds an
issue with any of these protected files, it will replace it.

Follow the steps:

Press Windows key + X and select Command prompt (Admin).
At the Command Prompt, type: sfc/scannow


Ed

Did it. Found no 'integrity violations'.
Thanks
Tom

On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:44:53 -0400, Paul
wrote:

wrote:
This may have been asked before - I hope not.
I have had this problem for a while, and it is exaspirating.
Every time I use File Explorer to look at the content of a folder, I
get two folders - the second sometimes a dupe of the first. It is
usually smaller and quite useless I think - and I have to delete it
every time.

It did not always do that - so there must be some setting to control
this. Can anyone weigh in?

Tom

Well, it can't be the Details pane, because that doesn't have an X.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

Could you show us a picture ?

Or alternately, open a Command Prompt window, and "dir" the
offending view you're trying to look at. Just in case it's
a file name issue.

cd /d C:\path\to\offender

dir filenames.txt

notepad filenames.txt

and see if there is anything strange, like a space
at the end of a filename. In other words, some item
that was created by a web browser, that happens to
violate some well-known rule about File Explorer.

Paul

Hi Paul -

Triggered by what you said, I brought up file explorer, showing my
main C drive and three data drives. I clicked on all four one at a
time and they each all showed the spurious second window. That tells
me the problem must not be triggered by some folder/file name since
the contents of the drives are different and are non co-habitant.
Strange for sure.

The second window always seems to show all the folder names and their
sizes for the selected folder name - in this case c:\
I can x-out of the second windows each time, but it is getting to be a
pita.
Tom

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On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:44:53 -0400, Paul
wrote:

wrote:
This may have been asked before - I hope not.
I have had this problem for a while, and it is exaspirating.
Every time I use File Explorer to look at the content of a folder, I
get two folders - the second sometimes a dupe of the first. It is
usually smaller and quite useless I think - and I have to delete it
every time.

It did not always do that - so there must be some setting to control
this. Can anyone weigh in?

Tom
Well, it can't be the Details pane, because that doesn't have an X.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

Could you show us a picture ?

Or alternately, open a Command Prompt window, and "dir" the
offending view you're trying to look at. Just in case it's
a file name issue.

cd /d C:\path\to\offender

dir filenames.txt

notepad filenames.txt

and see if there is anything strange, like a space
at the end of a filename. In other words, some item
that was created by a web browser, that happens to
violate some well-known rule about File Explorer.

Paul

Hi Paul -

Triggered by what you said, I brought up file explorer, showing my
main C drive and three data drives. I clicked on all four one at a
time and they each all showed the spurious second window. That tells
me the problem must not be triggered by some folder/file name since
the contents of the drives are different and are non co-habitant.
Strange for sure.

The second window always seems to show all the folder names and their
sizes for the selected folder name - in this case c:\
I can x-out of the second windows each time, but it is getting to be a
pita.
Tom

I found a reference here to OneDrive being a factor. Or
rather, the accidental placement of a certain folder into
a OneDrive storage area.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...8-ff4a8a403ed6

And crazy stuff like that happens all the time... if you
have a mouse with malfunctioning mouse buttons on it.
You can be dragging something, the mouse drops it,
and you go "now where did that go...". And the answer is,
it went somewhere it shouldn't have gone.

So if you have a worn mouse like I use, that could
help explain it. How something could end up tossed into
a location you might not normally use.

Paul

On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:44:53 -0400, Paul
wrote:

wrote:
This may have been asked before - I hope not.
I have had this problem for a while, and it is exaspirating.
Every time I use File Explorer to look at the content of a folder, I
get two folders - the second sometimes a dupe of the first. It is
usually smaller and quite useless I think - and I have to delete it
every time.

It did not always do that - so there must be some setting to control
this. Can anyone weigh in?

Tom

Well, it can't be the Details pane, because that doesn't have an X.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

Could you show us a picture ?

Or alternately, open a Command Prompt window, and "dir" the
offending view you're trying to look at. Just in case it's
a file name issue.

cd /d C:\path\to\offender

dir filenames.txt

notepad filenames.txt

and see if there is anything strange, like a space
at the end of a filename. In other words, some item
that was created by a web browser, that happens to
violate some well-known rule about File Explorer.

Paul


Tell me how to send u a pic, and I will do it. I have snapped a jpg
shot of one of these screens - you shud be able to better understand
from whence I come.
Tom

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On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:44:53 -0400, Paul
wrote:

wrote:
This may have been asked before - I hope not.
I have had this problem for a while, and it is exaspirating.
Every time I use File Explorer to look at the content of a folder, I
get two folders - the second sometimes a dupe of the first. It is
usually smaller and quite useless I think - and I have to delete it
every time.

It did not always do that - so there must be some setting to control
this. Can anyone weigh in?

Tom
Well, it can't be the Details pane, because that doesn't have an X.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

Could you show us a picture ?

Or alternately, open a Command Prompt window, and "dir" the
offending view you're trying to look at. Just in case it's
a file name issue.

cd /d C:\path\to\offender

dir filenames.txt

notepad filenames.txt

and see if there is anything strange, like a space
at the end of a filename. In other words, some item
that was created by a web browser, that happens to
violate some well-known rule about File Explorer.

Paul


Tell me how to send u a pic, and I will do it. I have snapped a jpg
shot of one of these screens - you shud be able to better understand
from whence I come.
Tom


You can upload here.

http://postimage.org/index.php?um=flash

The tricky part, is after the upload finished, you have
to select a link (by copying it), from the URL list
at the bottom of the page. What you don't want is a
"thumbnail", because the image is too small.

What I do, is use two browsers. In one browser, I upload my sample image.

Then, I copy the URL into the second browser, and confirm the
image is big enough and I can see it.

Once I've verified the image is good, I put it in a posting.

HTH,
Paul

On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 19:42:45 -0400, Paul
wrote:

wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:44:53 -0400, Paul
wrote:

wrote:
This may have been asked before - I hope not.
I have had this problem for a while, and it is exaspirating.
Every time I use File Explorer to look at the content of a folder, I
get two folders - the second sometimes a dupe of the first. It is
usually smaller and quite useless I think - and I have to delete it
every time.

It did not always do that - so there must be some setting to control
this. Can anyone weigh in?

Tom
Well, it can't be the Details pane, because that doesn't have an X.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

Could you show us a picture ?

Or alternately, open a Command Prompt window, and "dir" the
offending view you're trying to look at. Just in case it's
a file name issue.

cd /d C:\path\to\offender

dir filenames.txt

notepad filenames.txt

and see if there is anything strange, like a space
at the end of a filename. In other words, some item
that was created by a web browser, that happens to
violate some well-known rule about File Explorer.

Paul


Tell me how to send u a pic, and I will do it. I have snapped a jpg
shot of one of these screens - you shud be able to better understand
from whence I come.
Tom


You can upload here.

http://postimage.org/index.php?um=flash

The tricky part, is after the upload finished, you have
to select a link (by copying it), from the URL list
at the bottom of the page. What you don't want is a
"thumbnail", because the image is too small.

What I do, is use two browsers. In one browser, I upload my sample image.

Then, I copy the URL into the second browser, and confirm the
image is big enough and I can see it.

Once I've verified the image is good, I put it in a posting.

HTH,
Paul


I tried it - but I don't think it worked.
Thanks anyway
Tom

On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 19:42:45 -0400, Paul
wrote:

wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:44:53 -0400, Paul
wrote:

wrote:
This may have been asked before - I hope not.
I have had this problem for a while, and it is exaspirating.
Every time I use File Explorer to look at the content of a folder, I
get two folders - the second sometimes a dupe of the first. It is
usually smaller and quite useless I think - and I have to delete it
every time.

It did not always do that - so there must be some setting to control
this. Can anyone weigh in?

Tom
Well, it can't be the Details pane, because that doesn't have an X.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

Could you show us a picture ?

Or alternately, open a Command Prompt window, and "dir" the
offending view you're trying to look at. Just in case it's
a file name issue.

cd /d C:\path\to\offender

dir filenames.txt

notepad filenames.txt

and see if there is anything strange, like a space
at the end of a filename. In other words, some item
that was created by a web browser, that happens to
violate some well-known rule about File Explorer.

Paul


Tell me how to send u a pic, and I will do it. I have snapped a jpg
shot of one of these screens - you shud be able to better understand
from whence I come.
Tom


You can upload here.

http://postimage.org/index.php?um=flash

The tricky part, is after the upload finished, you have
to select a link (by copying it), from the URL list
at the bottom of the page. What you don't want is a
"thumbnail", because the image is too small.

What I do, is use two browsers. In one browser, I upload my sample image.

Then, I copy the URL into the second browser, and confirm the
image is big enough and I can see it.

Once I've verified the image is good, I put it in a posting.

HTH,
Paul

Try looking at:

https://s13.postimg.org/565cyd6yf/aaaaaaa.jpg

Tom

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Try looking at:

https://s13.postimg.org/565cyd6yf/aaaaaaa.jpg

Tom

This is the closest match so far.

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-vi...-8-1-explorer/

http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/

It's possible you had that installed on the OS, before
you did an Upgrade Install ?

Notice that the window created, isn't an exact match, as
the Title isn't centered.

*******

So now you can go to Control Panels : Programs and Features
and check for signs it is present/installed. You could also
look in one of the Program Files directories, if you run out
of other places to check.

If you no longer have a Control Panel in the right-click of
start, you can type "Control" into the Cortana Search Hole,
or even try running "control" as an executable, and that
may give you a Control Panel to play with. Then look in
Programs and Features. I usually pin my Control Panel
to the Task Bar, so I "won't lose it".

*******

If you're still stumped for a way to stop it, look through
the Autoruns window, and see if it's a startup item. This tool
offers tick boxes for (attempting) to stop pests of various
sorts. This tool is no match for malware though, which will just
undo whatever this program does for you. This mainly helps
with "non-aggressive" software.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...rnals/bb963902

The thing is unlikely to be an on-demand Shell Extension,
because you'd have to do something with the mouse to get
it to appear. Since it seems to show up all the time, it
could well be using some other mechanism. Nirsoft makes
a tool for viewing Shell Extensions.

(Download is around 85% down the page...)

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Paul