I have Win98SE and problems w/ this folder: It all started when the link to this folder disapperead from the desktop. Since that moment, this folder isnt a special folder anymore. I manually restored the link to the desktop, but I couldnt solve the other problems:
1.) I cannot open the folder directly from the desktop in the Explorer (have to go to C: first).
2.) I cannot see this folder in save as menus at all anymore, except C:\My Files is the default save-directory of this app. If this is not the case, I have to typ manually C:\My Files to save a file there.
3.) The worst is, that the search funktion doesnt work probably in this folder anymore: I can only find files in subfolders, and it doesnt change anything when I select "dont include subfolders".
I dont know, if this has something to do with it, because it started later: very often Explorer is closed because w/ an error message, but Explorer restarts itself right afterwards. This sometimes, but not everytime, happens when I do one of this things:
- When I start special programs, that need a tray-icon (it doesnt happen w/ all tray-programs)
- When I use Explorer or have a folder opened or do things like save, craete a link,... in a folder that is opened w/ explorer. It most frequently happens in C:\My Files.
- surf the internet.
I dont know, if this matters, but I have one strange behaviour of explorer, which started long before the My Files problem: Sometimes the icons of some files change to a different, random icon. If I go into the View -> Folder options -> Filetypes menu (menu names are translated from German) and change the icon for one filetyp back, it automatically changes all the other icons that changed themselves back.
1.) I cannot open the folder directly from the desktop in the Explorer (have to go to C: first).
2.) I cannot see this folder in save as menus at all anymore, except C:\My Files is the default save-directory of this app. If this is not the case, I have to typ manually C:\My Files to save a file there.
3.) The worst is, that the search funktion doesnt work probably in this folder anymore: I can only find files in subfolders, and it doesnt change anything when I select "dont include subfolders".
I dont know, if this has something to do with it, because it started later: very often Explorer is closed because w/ an error message, but Explorer restarts itself right afterwards. This sometimes, but not everytime, happens when I do one of this things:
- When I start special programs, that need a tray-icon (it doesnt happen w/ all tray-programs)
- When I use Explorer or have a folder opened or do things like save, craete a link,... in a folder that is opened w/ explorer. It most frequently happens in C:\My Files.
- surf the internet.
I dont know, if this matters, but I have one strange behaviour of explorer, which started long before the My Files problem: Sometimes the icons of some files change to a different, random icon. If I go into the View -> Folder options -> Filetypes menu (menu names are translated from German) and change the icon for one filetyp back, it automatically changes all the other icons that changed themselves back.