Simple Folder View

[admin]

In Microsoft Windows Explorer on a Microsoft Windows XP-based computer, the following behavior occurs under the new Simple Folder view:
• When you click a folder in the Folders pane, it is automatically expanded to show its subfolders.
• When you click a folder in the Folders pane, other expanded folders are automatically closed.
• The dotted lines that normally connect the folders and drives are not displayed.

DennisR, is that what you want. What's so great about it?

[DennisR]

In Microsoft Windows Explorer on a Microsoft Windows XP-based computer, the following behavior occurs under the new Simple Folder view:
• When you click a folder in the Folders pane, it is automatically expanded to show its subfolders.
• When you click a folder in the Folders pane, other expanded folders are automatically closed.
• The dotted lines that normally connect the folders and drives are not displayed.

DennisR, is that what you want. What's so great about it?

Yes. It seems like a small thing, but like most people, the fewer clicks it takes to accomplish something, the better I like it. On a drive with many folders you can end up scrolling quite a bit to see the contents unless you click the "+" to unexpand the open folders before expanding new folders. Simple folder view does this automatically. It saves a lot of time, effort and scrolling when trying to maintain a complex drive structure. Every Win 9x or ME machine that I work on gets cussed plenty since I got used to Win XP's Simple folder view. It's mostly a convenience that I find very useful.