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

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" <robert.nospam@americanriver.com> wrote in message
news:5CB0B04B-259E-44D6-89EA-6D5E13914A38@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>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
>[/color]

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


"Robert M. Lincoln" <robert.nospam@americanriver.com> wrote in message
news:5CB0B04B-259E-44D6-89EA-6D5E13914A38@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>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
>[/color]

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.

--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

"Robert M. Lincoln" <robert.nospam@americanriver.com> wrote in message
news:5CB0B04B-259E-44D6-89EA-6D5E13914A38@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>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
>[/color]

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