Drag + Drop : Win XP : ANNOYING!!!

slinkeepie

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Tell me if you've ever noticed this....

You have a HUGE mp3 collection or something like that with 100s of folders within folder and you are trying to sort things out in 'Windows Explorer' by dragging and dropping the folders around, or even by using CTRL-C/CTRL-V. And everytime you just try to move a folder to another one, the WHOLE folder expands down in the window, showing 100s more folders, making you lose place of where you were the the previous folder that you were organizing. Does this make sense?

Even if I open TWO explorer windows, and just keep the destination folder open in another and just drag into it, the ORIGINAL folder explorer STILL expands out reflecting the moved item.

I know this is hard to explain (I always find the hard to explain problems :( )

Anyone have a fix for this or something?
How do you organize your folders!!!
 

Accord99

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I think this setting is what your looking for:

Windows Explorer->Tools->Folder Options->View

Uncheck "Display simple folder view in Explorer's Folders list"
 

slinkeepie

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WOW! It worked!
THANK YOU!

How in the heck does that option pertain to that?
One would never guess by how the option actually reads.