Task Pane in Windows EWxplorer

[Guest]

I have a task pane come up on the left side of most general windows, like My
Documents or the Control Panel.

However, with Windows Explorer it appears only if I have made a command in
the View|Explorer Bar and brought up a side-bar like Search. When I close
that side-bar, it is replaced with a task pane. It is an odd process and I'm
wondering if this is how the pane works for just Windows Explorer (but
apparently not for most other general windows). Or is there some setting that
needs to be tweaked?
Thanks.

 

[Malke]

I have a task pane come up on the left side of most general windows,
like My Documents or the Control Panel.

However, with Windows Explorer it appears only if I have made a
command in the View|Explorer Bar and brought up a side-bar like
Search. When I close that side-bar, it is replaced with a task pane.
It is an odd process and I'm wondering if this is how the pane works
for just Windows Explorer (but apparently not for most other general
windows). Or is there some setting that needs to be tweaked?
Thanks.

Remove Common Tasks from the Desktop -
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Malke

 

[NewScience]

Click on the Folders toolbar button.

 

[Guest]

Malke, thanks very much. That's an amazing site and I did find where/how to
download items! My concern is that this 'tweak' will also affect or eliminate
other things that I'm used to having. I don't see any fuller description for
each item, except for what appears to be registry changes (?). So, I thought
I should ask if you can direct me to a source that will tell me what this
tweak will do exactly.
Thanks.

 

[Malke]

Malke, thanks very much. That's an amazing site and I did find
where/how to download items! My concern is that this 'tweak' will also
affect or eliminate other things that I'm used to having. I don't see
any fuller description for each item, except for what appears to be
registry changes (?). So, I thought I should ask if you can direct me
to a source that will tell me what this tweak will do exactly.
Thanks.

Right-click on Kelly's file and open it in Notepad. You can read what
the file will do.

Malke