Windows Explorer Behavior

[Robert M. Lincoln]

I have Vista Home Premium.

When Windows Explorer first starts up, a tree-view of the folders and drives
is displayed in a pane on the left side. But then when you click on a
folder, the tree-view pane disappears and one window displays showing the
contents of the folder clicked on.

How do you keep the tree-view from disappearing (i.e., make the behavior
like XP)?

Thanks

 

[Lang Murphy]

Hmm... don't have that issue here. Running Ultimate but can't believe
Windows Explorer is going to act differently between the two flavors. Looked
around to see if I could find a related setting, but can't identify it, if
it's there... sorry.

Lang

 

[Robert M. Lincoln]

I found the answer - it's in the "Organize | Layout" menu. "Navigation
pane" should be highlighted.

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

When the window without the folder pane opens, click:

'Organize' -> 'Layout' -> select 'Navigation Pane'

Close the window and that should set the 2 pane view as the default.

 

[Robert M. Lincoln]

Please excuse this post. I'm trying to send a post without using Windows
LiveID - too many questions and dialog boxes the first time.