Display Details in My Computer

[Guest]

How do I change the details that are displayed in the left hand side of the
My Computer window. I have multiple installes of WinXP SP2 and the displayed
values vary between the systems. I have tried changing the settings from the
menu "View --> Choose Details...", but it seems to only apply to the
"Details" view for the entire screen. I am interested in being able to see
the information when I click on a particular file or folder in the list view
for the screen.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

[[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.]]

Open Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
General tab | Select: 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.]]

If Show common tasks in folders is already selected, click on the Folder
icon on the Toolbar to toggle between the Common Tasks pane and the Folders
pane.

If that is not the problem, you may have Explore selected as default instead
of Open.

Set Open as default for (NONE) Folder in Folder Options.

Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
File Types tab | Scroll down to and Select: (NONE) Folder |
Advanced button | Highlight: open | Set Default | Click OK |
Click Apply | Click OK

Set Default
[[Sets the selected command as the command to be carried out when the file
is invoked.
The default command for the file is shown in bold on the shortcut menu for
the file.]]

Open and Explore are different.

Generally speaking, Explore opens folders with Folders pane on the left.

Generally speaking, Open opens folders with common tasks showing on the
left.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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