Full-text blog feedAhh... Finally - No More Auto-Expanding Folders on This Computer
This has been bugging me for ages: The folders in Windows XP auto-expand when you click on them in the folder tree of Windows Explorer. Finally, thanks to this page, I have learnt how to disable them.
The pref isn't exactly intuitively labeled. They call it Display Simple Folder View
, which is really several prefs in one. Apart from the auto-expanding it also sets the visual style of the folder tree - hiding the branches if enabled:
4 Comment(s):
At 8:44 PM,
jer said…
Am I just not noticing the difference in these graphics? they look identical to me
At 5:50 PM,
David Naylor said…
Sorry about that. You are not blind - it was me who managed to insert the same picture twice. Fixed now.
:-)
At 2:44 AM,
jer said…
I still don't really see any difference. Well, theres that orange block, but all the branches look the same.. I think I'm just not understanding what you're saying.
At 8:13 AM,
David Naylor said…
The visible difference in the shots are the tree branches, which are not visible at all with the default XP settings.
The main reason I changed that pref (disabling automatic expansion when you click on a folder) obviously doesn't make any difference to the appearance.
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