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Re: Is a Win XP-like Windows Explorer possible with Win 7 Home Premium

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From: Zaphod Beeblebrox
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:14
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:01:51 -0400, "ECLiPSE 2002" <fdm2000
@comcast.net> wrote in article <l9l3n79lace4dtedqjj7ii6o503fh0v0rf@
4ax.com>...
> 
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:34:03 -0700, Evan Platt
> <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com.invalid> wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:15:08 -0400, ECLiPSE 2002 <fdm2000@comcast.net>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>Fairly new to Win 7 Home Premium and am wondering if it is possible to
> >>create a Win XP- like Windows Explorer where one see a two column tree
> >>of folders and files to facilitate dragging and dropping files. 
> >
> >
> >You can open as many Windows Explorers as you'd like to facilitate
> >dragging and dropping, however I have no idea what you mean by a 'two
> >column tree'.
> >
> >Look under View, and see which view fits your needs.

> Thanks for the response Evan,
> 
> What I meant by two columns is what is displayed when Windows Explorer
> is opened - on eht left are the list of Folders and on the right are
> the names of the files and subfolders. I liked this arrangement in Win
> XP because it visually facilitated dragging and dropping. 
> Another responder mentioned Classic Shell as a XP Win Explorer
> simulator.
> 

In Explorer, go to Organize - Folder Options, and in the Navigation 
pane section at the bottom of the window make sure that Show all 
folders and Automatically expand to current folder are both checked and 
it will behave more like Explorer did in XP.

-- 
Zaphod

The secret of flying is to hurl yourself to the ground, and miss.
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