Problems with Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) and My Computer

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Dr Ken Brown-Gratchev

I have Windows XP Pro SP2 (all latest patches, updates, etc.), and
recently, for no reason I can understand nor can "fix", when I click on
the icon to open Windows Explorer (not 'IE', just explorer.exe), I get
only My documents and My Networks displayed in the left-hand window view
on the screen . no drives (C:; D:; etc.), no My Computer, etc. . nothing
else. In the address bar on this screen, I can at least type in "C:\",
hit Enter, and in the left-hand window, I THEN get the 'full-meal-deal"
display like I am used to seeing. However, on exit from this, it does
not "stick" or view retained, so that I have to do this each time.
Suggestions?
My only work-around to-date has been to put a short-cut 'My Computer'
icon onto my Quick Launch bar where I used to have my 'Windows Explorer'
short-cut icon (I took if off myself after about listed experiences).


Dr. Ken Brown-Gratchev
Brown-Gratchev & Associates Counseling
Website: http://home.comcast.net/~solutioncounselor/
Phones: Voice 503-866-0758 / Fax 503-246-9316
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DONATIONS to KEN BROWN-GRATCHEV LIVER TRANSPLANT FUND
can be made/sent to:
Clackamas Federal Credit Union
Account # 541770004-05
10400 S.E. Main St., Milwaukie, OR, 97222
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"Let us savor the most fleeting delights of our most beautiful day." -
Alphonse De Lamartine
"We are not troubled by things, but by the OPINIONS which we have of
things." - Epictetus
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its
joy." - Leo Buscaglia
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Gerry Cornell

Problems with Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) and My ComputerCheck in
Windows Explorer that Folders is checked View, Explorer Bar, Folders.

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I have Windows XP Pro SP2 (all latest patches, updates, etc.), and
recently, for no reason I can understand nor can "fix", when I click on
the icon to open Windows Explorer (not 'IE', just explorer.exe), I get
only My documents and My Networks displayed in the left-hand window view
on the screen . no drives (C:; D:; etc.), no My Computer, etc. . nothing
else. In the address bar on this screen, I can at least type in "C:\",
hit Enter, and in the left-hand window, I THEN get the 'full-meal-deal"
display like I am used to seeing. However, on exit from this, it does
not "stick" or view retained, so that I have to do this each time.
Suggestions?
My only work-around to-date has been to put a short-cut 'My Computer'
icon onto my Quick Launch bar where I used to have my 'Windows Explorer'
short-cut icon (I took if off myself after about listed experiences).


Dr. Ken Brown-Gratchev
Brown-Gratchev & Associates Counseling
Website: http://home.comcast.net/~solutioncounselor/
Phones: Voice 503-866-0758 / Fax 503-246-9316
********************************************************************
DONATIONS to KEN BROWN-GRATCHEV LIVER TRANSPLANT FUND
can be made/sent to:
Clackamas Federal Credit Union
Account # 541770004-05
10400 S.E. Main St., Milwaukie, OR, 97222
........................................
"Let us savor the most fleeting delights of our most beautiful day." -
Alphonse De Lamartine
"We are not troubled by things, but by the OPINIONS which we have of
things." - Epictetus
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its
joy." - Leo Buscaglia
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David Candy

Problems with Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) and My ComputerWhy doesn't KEN BROWN-GRATCHEV move to any other industrialised country where it will be free.

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I have Windows XP Pro SP2 (all latest patches, updates, etc.), and recently, for no reason I can understand nor can "fix", when I click on the icon to open Windows Explorer (not 'IE', just explorer.exe), I get only My documents and My Networks displayed in the left-hand window view on the screen . no drives (C:; D:; etc.), no My Computer, etc. . nothing else. In the address bar on this screen, I can at least type in "C:\", hit Enter, and in the left-hand window, I THEN get the 'full-meal-deal" display like I am used to seeing. However, on exit from this, it does not "stick" or view retained, so that I have to do this each time. Suggestions?

My only work-around to-date has been to put a short-cut 'My Computer' icon onto my Quick Launch bar where I used to have my 'Windows Explorer' short-cut icon (I took if off myself after about listed experiences).



Dr. Ken Brown-Gratchev

Brown-Gratchev & Associates Counseling

Website: http://home.comcast.net/~solutioncounselor/

Phones: Voice 503-866-0758 / Fax 503-246-9316

********************************************************************

DONATIONS to KEN BROWN-GRATCHEV LIVER TRANSPLANT FUND

can be made/sent to:

Clackamas Federal Credit Union

Account # 541770004-05

10400 S.E. Main St., Milwaukie, OR, 97222

.......................................

"Let us savor the most fleeting delights of our most beautiful day." - Alphonse De Lamartine

"We are not troubled by things, but by the OPINIONS which we have of things." - Epictetus

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy." - Leo Buscaglia

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