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More info?)
Are you perhaps speaking of the friendly tree?
Manual: Start/Run/Regedit
Disable auto-expanding trees in Windows Explorer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Change the value of "FriendlyTree" to 0
And/or go to Tools/Folder Options/View and uncheck Display simple folder
view.....
Automated:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
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Troubleshooting Windows XP
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"D. Adams" <DAdams@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E628A9F2-56DE-423C-9CE0-609DC0387598@microsoft.com...
> "Show common tasks" is already selected. But when I open any window; My
> Computer, a directory, ANY window, it shows an "explorer" type of view
> (e.g.
> C: drive, adn its entire directory structure), or, "Folders". I also have
> a
> "Folders" icon on the explorer bar that I can click off, then the window I
> am
> working in goes to a common tasks type of view. But after I close the
> window
> and re-open it, its back to a "folders" type of view. And I already tried
> clicking off and on all the folder options, its as if the window
> themselves
> aren't paying any attention to that. Almost as if my registry is trashed
> with
> some setting that forces this condition.
>
> "Wesley Vogel" wrote:
>
>> Turn on common tasks.
>>
>> [[You can display hyperlinks to common tasks in the left pane of your
>> folder
>> windows. The links provide quick access to file and folder management
>> activities and other places on your computer, such as My Computer, Shared
>> Documents, and My Network Places. Windows displays these links by
>> default,
>> so they may already be displayed in your folders. If they are not, you
>> can
>> use Folder Options to enable this feature.]]
>>
>> Start | Run | Type: control folders | OK |
>> General tab | Show common tasks in folders |
>> Click Apply | Click OK
>>
>> Show common tasks in folders
>> [[Specifies that hyperlinks to common folder tasks and other places on
>> your
>> computer are displayed in folders. These links appear in the left pane of
>> the folder window.]]
>>
>> Enable or disable Common Tasks pane in folders
>>
http://www.winxptutor.com/commontasks.htm
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>>
>> Wes
>> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> In news:674FEA47-D0B9-4B8D-803A-BA3E48FD515D@microsoft.com,
>> D. Adams <D. Adams@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
>> > This just started today!!
>> >
>> > Every time I open a window now, I get a "folder list" (explorer?) to
>> > the
>> > right and inside the window proper. I have tried clicking and
>> > un-clicking
>> > just about every option in the folders options list under "View". I
>> > eben
>> > click apply changes to all windows, I have clicked and unclicked
>> > "Remeber
>> > each window's view settings".
>> >
>> > I even unclick the folders button on the tool bar of the window, and
>> > close
>> > the window, hoping the window will remember I don't want the folder
>> > list
>> > displayed, still no luck.
>> >
>> > I'm already balding, no hair left to pull out!
>> >
>> > The steak knives are next!! J/K
>>
>>
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