I'd sure appreciate some help from the guru's here.
Yesterday windows explorer choked. In the details
view I now have only one column in the right pane
and it has no header/label. There are no files showing
in this pane either. At the bottom left of the window
it does show that there are files in the folder. All other
views seem unaffected.
Any thoughts on why this happened and how to fix it?
This is on my win98se system if that makes a difference.
TIA
Art
In article <k8Vob.61748$ao4.165480@attbi_s51>, "Wood Butcher" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I'd sure appreciate some help from the guru's here.
>Yesterday windows explorer choked. In the details
>view I now have only one column in the right pane
>and it has no header/label. There are no files showing
>in this pane either. At the bottom left of the window
>it does show that there are files in the folder. All other
>views seem unaffected.
>Any thoughts on why this happened and how to fix it?
Is there a horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the right pane? If so, scroll
it left and right to see if anything else is visible. You may have
accidentally resized the columns to the point that nothing is visible.
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)
You could try going out to the MS site and installing the
patches/fixes for Explorer. Might fix it. Be careful though - I
think there's some issue with upgrading to Explorer 6 (as in, you
don't want to upgrade quite that far).
Renata
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 20:58:56 GMT, "Wood Butcher" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>I'd sure appreciate some help from the guru's here.
>Yesterday windows explorer choked. In the details
>view I now have only one column in the right pane
>and it has no header/label. There are no files showing
>in this pane either. At the bottom left of the window
>it does show that there are files in the folder. All other
>views seem unaffected.
>Any thoughts on why this happened and how to fix it?
>
>This is on my win98se system if that makes a difference.
>
>TIA
>Art
>
smart, not dumb for email
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote:
>On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 20:58:56 GMT, "Wood Butcher" <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>I'd sure appreciate some help from the guru's here.
>>Yesterday windows explorer choked. In the details
>>view I now have only one column in the right pane
>>and it has no header/label. There are no files showing
>>in this pane either. At the bottom left of the window
>>it does show that there are files in the folder. All other
>>views seem unaffected.
>>Any thoughts on why this happened and how to fix it?
>>
>>This is on my win98se system if that makes a difference.
>>
>>TIA
>>Art
>>
>
>There are a few things you can try
>1. Check for virus
That would be pretty unusual behavior for a virus.
>2. Scandisk (thorough)
Disk errors are *very* unlikely to manifest themselves in so benign a fashion.
>3. re-install 98SE (this will repair or replace any bad/missing files)
Absurd. This should be done only as an absolutely last resort, when every
other attempt to solve the problem has failed. You must work for Monkeysoft.
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)
On 01 Nov 2003, Wood Butcher spake unto rec.woodworking:
> Thanks for the ideas guys. I had already tried some of them
> and tried the others (not the re-install one) and got nowhere.
>
> The solution is to left-click in the right hand pane and
> do a ctrl-+ (the + on the numeric keypad). This resizes
> the columns to minimum and I could see everything again.
> MS knows about this problem and has a knowledge base
> article on it.
> http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q179/8/75.ASP
>
> I still haven't figured out how I caused the problem in the first
> place though.
>
THANK YOU!!! I've had this same problem for a year now, and could
not find a solution anywhere. How nice to be able to sort columns again,
without the whole right-click>arrange icons>by Name/Type/Size/Date
rigamarole. You da man!
Renata wrote:
> As a sw developer I've yet to rebuild my Win98 or Win2k PCs. ;-)
> Course, I had 'em "tailored" after installation rather just plopping
> them on the disk from the installation cd.
I was doing a lot of imaging stuff -- framegrabbers etc. Plus I was doing
MS development as well as Lotus Notes 4.6. MS & IBM hated each other. Each
would change registry settings important to the other, without any kind of
warning.
Fortunately, USB has made framegrabbers obsolete for my applications.
Still, I really enjoy the solid feel of Win2k & XP. In the Win3.x days I
reinstalled > 100 times on a network of about 10 PCs I was running.
Remember the 640k limit? Yech!
-- Mark
Thanks for the ideas guys. I had already tried some of them
and tried the others (not the re-install one) and got nowhere.
The solution is to left-click in the right hand pane and
do a ctrl-+ (the + on the numeric keypad). This resizes
the columns to minimum and I could see everything again.
MS knows about this problem and has a knowledge base
article on it.
http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q179/8/75.ASP
I still haven't figured out how I caused the problem in the first
place though.
Art
"Wood Butcher" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:k8Vob.61748$ao4.165480@attbi_s51...
> I'd sure appreciate some help from the guru's here.
> Yesterday windows explorer choked. In the details
> view I now have only one column in the right pane
> and it has no header/label. There are no files showing
> in this pane either. At the bottom left of the window
> it does show that there are files in the folder. All other
> views seem unaffected.
> Any thoughts on why this happened and how to fix it?
>
> This is on my win98se system if that makes a difference.
>
> TIA
> Art
>
>
Doug Miller wrote:
>> 3. re-install 98SE (this will repair or replace any bad/missing
>> files)
> Absurd. This should be done only as an absolutely last resort, when
> every other attempt to solve the problem has failed. You must work
> for Monkeysoft.
As a software developer I had to regularily FDISK & start over in the Win9x
era.
I've been flat amazed I haven't had to rebuild my Win2k box, though it has
become gimpy in spots. OpenGL went away, for example, but since it's not
critical now it's not worth the hassle of resurrection / rebuild.
-- Mark
Wood Butcher wrote:
> I'd sure appreciate some help from the guru's here.
> Yesterday windows explorer choked. In the details
> view I now have only one column in the right pane
> and it has no header/label. There are no files showing
> in this pane either. At the bottom left of the window
> it does show that there are files in the folder. All other
> views seem unaffected.
> Any thoughts on why this happened and how to fix it?
>
> This is on my win98se system if that makes a difference.
You could try a 3rd party Explorer replacement.
-- Mark
I don't understand how that would help my problem with
windows explorer. Please explain.
Art
"Renata" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> You could try going out to the MS site and installing the
> patches/fixes for Explorer. Might fix it. Be careful though - I
> think there's some issue with upgrading to Explorer 6 (as in, you
> don't want to upgrade quite that far).
>
> Renata
>
> On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 20:58:56 GMT, "Wood Butcher" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >I'd sure appreciate some help from the guru's here.
> >Yesterday windows explorer choked. In the details
> >view I now have only one column in the right pane
> >and it has no header/label. There are no files showing
> >in this pane either. At the bottom left of the window
> >it does show that there are files in the folder. All other
> >views seem unaffected.
> >Any thoughts on why this happened and how to fix it?
> >
> >This is on my win98se system if that makes a difference.
> >
> >TIA
> >Art
> >
>
> smart, not dumb for email
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 20:58:56 GMT, "Wood Butcher" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>I'd sure appreciate some help from the guru's here.
>Yesterday windows explorer choked. In the details
>view I now have only one column in the right pane
>and it has no header/label. There are no files showing
>in this pane either. At the bottom left of the window
>it does show that there are files in the folder. All other
>views seem unaffected.
>Any thoughts on why this happened and how to fix it?
>
>This is on my win98se system if that makes a difference.
>
>TIA
>Art
>
There are a few things you can try
1. Check for virus
2. Scandisk (thorough)
3. re-install 98SE (this will repair or replace any bad/missing files)
As a sw developer I've yet to rebuild my Win98 or Win2k PCs. ;-)
Course, I had 'em "tailored" after installation rather just plopping
them on the disk from the installation cd.
Renata
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 23:50:34 GMT, "Mark Jerde"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Doug Miller wrote:
>
>>> 3. re-install 98SE (this will repair or replace any bad/missing
>>> files)
>> Absurd. This should be done only as an absolutely last resort, when
>> every other attempt to solve the problem has failed. You must work
>> for Monkeysoft.
>
>As a software developer I had to regularily FDISK & start over in the Win9x
>era.
>
>I've been flat amazed I haven't had to rebuild my Win2k box, though it has
>become gimpy in spots. OpenGL went away, for example, but since it's not
>critical now it's not worth the hassle of resurrection / rebuild.
>
> -- Mark
>
smart, not dumb for email
"Wood Butcher" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:k8Vob.61748$ao4.165480@attbi_s51...
> I'd sure appreciate some help from the guru's here.
> Yesterday windows explorer choked. In the details
> view I now have only one column in the right pane
> and it has no header/label. There are no files showing
> in this pane either. At the bottom left of the window
> it does show that there are files in the folder. All other
> views seem unaffected.
> Any thoughts on why this happened and how to fix it?
Sounds like you've accidentally dragged the toolbars to a weird
configuration some how. You might try View->Toolbars -> Customize and then
select 'Reset' to put everything back.
But, who would ever need more than 640K (TOTAL!) ? ;-)
Renata
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:34:17 GMT, "Mark Jerde"
<[email protected]> wrote:
--snip--
>Still, I really enjoy the solid feel of Win2k & XP. In the Win3.x days I
>reinstalled > 100 times on a network of about 10 PCs I was running.
>Remember the 640k limit? Yech!
>
> -- Mark
>
smart, not dumb for email