Can't Reopen Left Explorer Pane

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In Explorer's left pane there is a down arrow used I believe to
close the Folders. When I click this down arrow the folders become
invisible (closed) but I'm unable to reopen them unless I close Explorer and
reopen it.
Also, without having to to install 3rd party software, is there a way in
Explorer
tot display ONLY the Folder structure of my drives? I want only to 'see'
C: open and the other drives closed.

I'm using Vista Home Basic SP1

Thanks,
James
 
In Explorer's left pane there is a down arrow used I believe to
close the Folders. When I click this down arrow the folders become
invisible (closed) but I'm unable to reopen them unless I close Explorer and
reopen it.
Also, without having to to install 3rd party software, is there a way in
Explorer
tot display ONLY the Folder structure of my drives? I want only to 'see'
C: open and the other drives closed.

I'm using Vista Home Basic SP1

Thanks,
James
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James, to only see C: open, create a shortcut to Windows Explorer on
your Desktop. Right-click the shortcut and choose Properties. In the
Shortcut tab of the Properties dialog, note the Target section. Click
after the entry, hit the spacebar one time, and type the following:

/n,/e,/C:\ (note that there are no spaces in the switches area)

Click OK and you're done.

HTH,

-- Larry
 
The switch acrually made it worse. I don't even see c:
The tree starts with Desktop and goes to Username and so forth.
No drive letters at all.

This is in the Target field:

C:\Windows\explorer.exe /n,/e,/C:\
 
The switch acrually made it worse. I don't even see c:
The tree starts with Desktop and goes to Username and so forth.
No drive letters at all.

This is in the Target field:

C:\Windows\explorer.exe /n,/e,/C:\
Click to expand...

Am I missing something or what? Why don't you just open Windows
Explorer and drag the Local Disk (C:) Icon to your desktop?
 
Because, I see other folders like Desktop, 'Userrname\Public, Network,
Control Panel and Recycle Bin...
Dragging C: to the desktop doesn't allow only C: to be viewed in Explorer.
Maybe I need 3rd party software.

James
 
JamesJ said:
The switch acrually made it worse. I don't even see c:
The tree starts with Desktop and goes to Username and so forth.
No drive letters at all.

This is in the Target field:

C:\Windows\explorer.exe /n,/e,/C:\
Click to expand...

Get rid of the forward slash before the C, or follow Dave Cox's method
unless you want to /root, the folder tree in the C drive.

Tom
 
Get rid of the forward slash before the C, or follow Dave Cox's method
unless you want to /root, the folder tree in the C drive.

Tom
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Oops ... you're right. My bad.

-- Larry
 
That did it. It still shows many folders that I don't wish to view.
Anyway around this?

James
 
JamesJ said:
That did it. It still shows many folders that I don't wish to view.
Anyway around this?

James
Click to expand...

If you mean you don't want to see User, Public, Network and other drives
then try
C:\Windows\explorer.exe /n,/e,/root,C:\

Tom
 
That worked great. Is there a way to have my other 2 drives exposed - a:\
and d:\'
I added these drive to the switch but it didn't help:

C:\Windows\explorer.exe /n,/e,,/a:\,d:\,root,C:\

I'm back where I started. with public, network... showing.

James
 
JamesJ said:
That worked great. Is there a way to have my other 2 drives exposed -
a:\ and d:\'
I added these drive to the switch but it didn't help:

C:\Windows\explorer.exe /n,/e,,/a:\,d:\,root,C:\

I'm back where I started. with public, network... showing.

James
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Not that I know of, certainly the switch string as you wrote there is
nonsense. \Root, is strictly nothing displayed in the tree above the
drive or folder that follows that switch. To see A:, C: and D you're
back up to Computer which means also seeing the stuff you don't want as
far as I can tell.

Tom
 
I can live with that.

Thanks to all,
James

Tom Allen said:
Not that I know of, certainly the switch string as you wrote there is
nonsense. \Root, is strictly nothing displayed in the tree above the
drive or folder that follows that switch. To see A:, C: and D you're back
up to Computer which means also seeing the stuff you don't want as far as
I can tell.

Tom
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