How to Hide Left Panel of Folder Window?

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Clueless in Seattle

I'm well behind the Windows curve and I'm just now learning to use Windows XP
Home. Up to now I've been using Windows 2000 Pro.

On my XP desktop I have a shortcut to my music folder which containins my
MP3 files.

When I double click on the shortcut, a window opens on the desktop
displaying the contents of my music folder.

This window has a panel along the left side containing items like "File and
Folder Tasks" and "Other Places."

I can't figure out how to close, hide or otherwise delete this panel. This
panel takes up a lot of precious desktop real estate and doubles the width of
the folder window. I often have six or more music folder windows opened at
the same time on my desktop so I can drag MP3 files from one folder to
another. As you can imagine, having that extra panel on all of those folders
makes quite a mess of my desktop.

Can someone help me with this?
 
Clueless said:
I'm well behind the Windows curve and I'm just now learning to use
Windows XP Home. Up to now I've been using Windows 2000 Pro.

On my XP desktop I have a shortcut to my music folder which
containins my MP3 files.

When I double click on the shortcut, a window opens on the desktop
displaying the contents of my music folder.

This window has a panel along the left side containing items like
"File and Folder Tasks" and "Other Places."

I can't figure out how to close, hide or otherwise delete this
panel. This panel takes up a lot of precious desktop real estate
and doubles the width of the folder window. I often have six or
more music folder windows opened at the same time on my desktop so
I can drag MP3 files from one folder to another. As you can
imagine, having that extra panel on all of those folders makes
quite a mess of my desktop.

Can someone help me with this?
Click to expand...

Get a bigger screen. ;-)

Or turn off the common tasks folder.

Tools --> Folder Options --> Use Windows Classic Folders.
 
Many thanks, Shenan Stanley,

That did the trick! It didn't occur to me to look in "Tools." I was
looking in "View." Duh!

I'm grateful to have the help available in this newsgroup, and appreciate
your taking the time to answer such a basic question.

I'm sure I'll have a lot more questions as I start finding my way around in
XP and hope I won't wear out my welcome here.
 
Clueless said:
I'm well behind the Windows curve and I'm just now learning to use
Windows XP Home. Up to now I've been using Windows 2000 Pro.

On my XP desktop I have a shortcut to my music folder which
containins my MP3 files.

When I double click on the shortcut, a window opens on the desktop
displaying the contents of my music folder.

This window has a panel along the left side containing items like
"File and Folder Tasks" and "Other Places."

I can't figure out how to close, hide or otherwise delete this
panel. This panel takes up a lot of precious desktop real estate
and doubles the width of the folder window. I often have six or
more music folder windows opened at the same time on my desktop so
I can drag MP3 files from one folder to another. As you can
imagine, having that extra panel on all of those folders makes
quite a mess of my desktop.

Can someone help me with this?
Click to expand...

Shenan said:
Get a bigger screen. ;-)

Or turn off the common tasks folder.

Tools --> Folder Options --> Use Windows Classic Folders.
Click to expand...
Many thanks, Shenan Stanley,

That did the trick! It didn't occur to me to look in "Tools." I
was looking in "View." Duh!

I'm grateful to have the help available in this newsgroup, and
appreciate your taking the time to answer such a basic question.

I'm sure I'll have a lot more questions as I start finding my way
around in XP and hope I won't wear out my welcome here.
Click to expand...

Ask away. Just a peer-to-peer newsgroup.
Glad to help, glad you got it sorted.
 
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