re: Win Explorer Collapsing Folders Problem
Friday, February 6, 2004 at 9:40 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Baa
(145 messages posted)
The only advice I can offer would be to check your mouse settings, if you have any
"smart" options enabled (auto double click, smart move, etc.) try disabling those.
Otherwise I'd boot to safe mode and see if it still does this. If so, then I'd
look at reinstalling some system files, if not I'd look at what software applications
you have running after booting normally. Its possible another program is trying
to "manage" your files and folders in some way.
On Thursday, February 5, 2004 at 1:33 pm, Dave Homan wrote:
>(For definition's sake, whenever I say "click" or "clicking" I mean single-click.)
> This takes a bunch of words to accurately describe, so please bear with me.
First
>a general description, and then an exact one in case the general one is not clear.
> I've already shortened this several times.
>
>General description. The problem I'm having is within the Windows Explorer Folders
>pane, specifically when clicking on a minus sign next to a folder/sub-folder that's
>been expanded. The folder/sub-folder will only collapse correctly when that folder/sub-folder's
>name is highlighted. If any other folder/sub-folder is highlighted when clicking
>on a desired folder's minus sign, then instead of simply collapsing the desired
folder's
>sub-folder structure and the minus changing to a +, INSTEAD, the highlight moves
>from its current location, to the folder name next to the minus sign, the minus
sign
>changes to a + sign as the sub-folders collapse, then the + changes to a minus and
>the sub-folders expand again and the highlight then goes back to the originally
highlighted
>name, then finally back to the folder name next to the minus sign that was clicked
>on. That folder remains expanded, but of course should have stayed collapsed when
>it first did so. THEN, when clicking the minus sign again, the sub-folders correctly
>collapse, and the + sign appears next to the highlighted collapsed folder. In actuality,
>the highlight should have nothing to do with expanding/collapsing folders.
>
>This has not always occurred, but started a couple of years after installing Win98SE.
>
>Exact description. Let's say "C" and folder "Windows" has been expanded, and all
>of the "Windows" sub-folders appear, and there is a minus sign next to the name
"Windows",
>and the sub-folder "System" is highlighted. Clicking on the minus sign next to
the
>folder name "Windows" should cause all of the "Windows" sub-folders to collapse
and
>the minus sign next to the "Windows" folder name should revert to a + , and the
highlight
>move to the folder "Windows". If the highlight was in a totally different folder
>apart from the "Windows" folder, the highlight should stay put. What happens on
>"my" PC, is the highlight moves from the "System" name to the "Windows" name, the
>sub-folders collapse and the minus changes to a +. THEN, they expand again, the
+
>changes to a minus and the highlight moves back to the "System" name, then again
>moves back to and now stops at the "Windows" name, with the minus sign still there,
>and all of the "Windows" sub-folders still expanded. When I click on the minus
sign
>again, the sub-folders now collapse like they're supposed to.
>
>Any ideas ?
>
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