Long time Win2K user, Installed XP about a week or two ago ... One annoyance ..

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Lifer
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I've tweaked XP to my liking for the most part, however, there is one thing that I haven't been able to figure out, and it's been making me bonkers.

When I click on a directory in the "tree" on the left pane of windows explorer, it automaticly expands it and shows all the subdirectories on the left frame (even though I am not clicking on the little plus to the left of the directory name.)

Does anyone here know how to make it stop doing that? I only want to expand the directory if I click on the plus, or click on something within the directory.

So far I'm pretty content with XP, I only "upgraded" since I wanted to use Nvidia's DVD accelerator, and WMP doesn't play DVDs in 2K, I figure since that doesn't work in 2K, I'm bound to run into more applications that don't support 2K, so it was time to change.

I don't need any suggestions like "click the directory on the right frame, and then the left won't auto expand", as I am fully aware of that fact. Thank you.
 

Genx87

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Disable "Simple Folder View".

It is one of the more annoying things in XP IMHO. The other being simple file sharing!
 

BurnItDwn

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Genx87
Disable "Simple Folder View".

It is one of the more annoying things in XP IMHO. The other being simple file sharing!




THANK YOU VERY VERY VERY VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Simple File sharing got turned off within an hour of the install :)