For whatever reason, Microsoft decided that when you’re in Windows Explorer, you don’t need to see the folder structure. So if I’m in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12, my Explorer window may look something like this:
I find that I frequently need to browse other folders within the folder structure, which means that the simplified view offered out of the box means extra clicks. So, if you right-click on an empty space in the folder view pane, you’ll see the Expand to current folder option:
This setting is persistent. So from now on, when you’re navigating in Windows Explorer, you’ll now see the expanded tree view like this:
Posted Thursday, December 17th, 2009 at 10:19 am by peterl
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