Monday, November 1, 2010

Windows XP Left Pane Missing

A client recently struggled when his XP workstation's left pane disappeared.  This pane contains commons tasks such as emailing files.

A simple registry modficiaton was needed to remediate the issue:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"WebView"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"ClassicShell"=dword:00000000
 
After applying the fix, I killed the "explorer.exe" process, then re-opened it.  The pane was now visible.
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  1. HyacinthNovember 18, 2012 at 4:10 AM

    Another Option is to Go into your Control Panel and open Folder Options and under the General tab>Tasks select "Show common tasks in folders", click Apply/OK

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