file management help needed

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I did something somewhere when installing XP that I want to undo and don't
remember where it was and can't word it so Google can find me help.

What happens is if I download say, Index.htm and along with it comes the
folder "Index_files", if I delete the Index.htm, the folder gets deleted (or
moved) along with it. How can I make the associated files independent of
each other again?
 
Open Windows Explorer and select Tools/Folder Options/View Tab. Scroll down to the
"Managing pairs of Web pages and folders" and place a check mark in the "Show both parts and manage them individually" item.
Apply/OK.

Check to see if this changes the behavior.
 
Open Windows Explorer and select Tools/Folder Options/View Tab. Scroll down
to the
"Managing pairs of Web pages and folders" and place a check mark in the
"Show both parts and manage them individually" item.
Apply/OK.

Check to see if this changes the behavior.

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Thank you, that sounded great. I am using XP Home and the View Tab is not an
option, only View which seems the same as it was in Win98.

I just deleted another folder and along with it went my laboriously coded
web page. Help. There was one master switch somewhere that turned this on
(not just the web pages, universal) and I think it must have been when I was
installing. I'm burned out from searching and reading possibilities on
Google.
 
Ayush said:
Rename the file or folder then windows will manage them individually.
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Thank you, I agree. But that's only a short term fix and when doing over 300
HTML pages, for instance, it's too time consuming.

There was a place I could click once to choose this situation and it likely
is the same place I can undo it. I can't find it. Surely someone knows this.
It should be child's play compared to the serious jams we get a lot of
people out of.
 
The solution I received on another group. It was to add a reg fix to give
the option to manage the pairs Courtesy of Ramesh Srininvasan, MS-MVP
 
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