window explorer lost

I am totally lost trying to figure this new Windows Explorer out. I am by no means a newbie. This thing is making no sense to me at all. I also believe that it is reporting drives (partitions) incorrectly. The search function is totally non functional in my install (5384), can only run in Safe Mode. Just MHO,
Jon

this might help. in the lower corner of the left pane there is a click button to make the folder tree show. you can then drag the divider up to show your computer folder tree.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"Jon" wrote in message I am totally lost trying to figure this new Windows Explorer out. I am by no means a newbie. This thing is making no sense to me at all. I also believe that it is reporting drives (partitions) incorrectly. The search function is totally non functional in my install (5384), can only run in Safe Mode. Just MHO,
Jon

I will have to check that out as I totally missed it. I still don't get why when I search on a known folder or file nothing comes back. Is the button immeadiately to the right of the text box a "clear" button? There is a drop down to the right of that that lets you choose between This Computer and The Internet. I am thinking you are supposed to click the appropriate one to initiate the search. I have noticed on my installation, dual boot enviornment using the second partition for Vista, that the drive letters between the C: and D: drives gets swapped in Vista so that Vista reports C: when it is really D: . Still not sure why they made such radical changes to Windows Explorer. I did find that right clicking the new Start/Windows Logo still gives you a context menu with Explore as a choice and that works somewhat normally. Thanks for you tip Mikehsd
"mikeyhsd" wrote:

this might help. in the lower corner of the left pane there is a click button to make the folder tree show. you can then drag the divider up to show your computer folder tree.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"Jon" wrote in message I am totally lost trying to figure this new Windows Explorer out. I am by no means a newbie. This thing is making no sense to me at all. I also believe that it is reporting drives (partitions) incorrectly. The search function is totally non functional in my install (5384), can only run in Safe Mode. Just MHO,
Jon

I am looking but the only button on the left side I have is directly below the Back/Forward buttons and that is not bringing up the folder tree. Is it because so far I can only boot to safe mode? IE 7 is working and I can browse the internet. I don't get why when I enter E:\downloads in the search box it is not finding it as I know it exists.
"mikeyhsd" wrote:

this might help. in the lower corner of the left pane there is a click button to make the folder tree show. you can then drag the divider up to show your computer folder tree.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"Jon" wrote in message I am totally lost trying to figure this new Windows Explorer out. I am by no means a newbie. This thing is making no sense to me at all. I also believe that it is reporting drives (partitions) incorrectly. The search function is totally non functional in my install (5384), can only run in Safe Mode. Just MHO,
Jon

I am using Vista Ultimate edition 64 bit. with Windows Explorer on screen, at the bottom of the LEFT pane should be the word FOLDER. click on it and your folder tree should show. you can then use the horizontal divider to expand the folders.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"Jon" wrote in message I am looking but the only button on the left side I have is directly below the Back/Forward buttons and that is not bringing up the folder tree. Is it because so far I can only boot to safe mode? IE 7 is working and I can browse the internet. I don't get why when I enter E:\downloads in the search box it is not finding it as I know it exists.
"mikeyhsd" wrote:

this might help. in the lower corner of the left pane there is a click button to make the folder tree show. you can then drag the divider up to show your computer folder tree.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"Jon" wrote in message I am totally lost trying to figure this new Windows Explorer out. I am by no means a newbie. This thing is making no sense to me at all. I also believe that it is reporting drives (partitions) incorrectly. The search function is totally non functional in my install (5384), can only run in Safe Mode. Just MHO,
Jon

Hi mikeyhsd, I still am not seeing the folders button that you see. I am also using X64 Ultimate build 5384. So far I can only get safe mode up. I seem to have a video problem with my ATI Radeon X1600 which if you look many people are having the same problem. Maybe the button you are talking about is not available in safe mode. I did discover I can use ALT + Up Key to manually navigate up to what I would call old My Computer view and then double click the drive I need. What happened to the Up button in the old Windows Explorer? I had to go in the View menu and drill down to find this. I hope it's a lot better in normal mode!
Jon
"mikeyhsd" wrote:

I am using Vista Ultimate edition 64 bit. with Windows Explorer on screen, at the bottom of the LEFT pane should be the word FOLDER. click on it and your folder tree should show. you can then use the horizontal divider to expand the folders.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"Jon" wrote in message I am looking but the only button on the left side I have is directly below the Back/Forward buttons and that is not bringing up the folder tree. Is it because so far I can only boot to safe mode? IE 7 is working and I can browse the internet. I don't get why when I enter E:\downloads in the search box it is not finding it as I know it exists.
"mikeyhsd" wrote:
this might help. in the lower corner of the left pane there is a click button to make the folder tree show. you can then drag the divider up to show your computer folder tree.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"Jon" wrote in message I am totally lost trying to figure this new Windows Explorer out. I am by no means a newbie. This thing is making no sense to me at all. I also believe that it is reporting drives (partitions) incorrectly. The search function is totally non functional in my install (5384), can only run in Safe Mode. Just MHO,
Jon

Update: Yes it's better in normal mode and I found the folders button. That works nice. Thanks.
"Jon" wrote:

Hi mikeyhsd, I still am not seeing the folders button that you see. I am also using X64 Ultimate build 5384. So far I can only get safe mode up. I seem to have a video problem with my ATI Radeon X1600 which if you look many people are having the same problem. Maybe the button you are talking about is not available in safe mode. I did discover I can use ALT + Up Key to manually navigate up to what I would call old My Computer view and then double click the drive I need. What happened to the Up button in the old Windows Explorer? I had to go in the View menu and drill down to find this. I hope it's a lot better in normal mode!
Jon
"mikeyhsd" wrote:
I am using Vista Ultimate edition 64 bit. with Windows Explorer on screen, at the bottom of the LEFT pane should be the word FOLDER. click on it and your folder tree should show. you can then use the horizontal divider to expand the folders.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"Jon" wrote in message I am looking but the only button on the left side I have is directly below the Back/Forward buttons and that is not bringing up the folder tree. Is it because so far I can only boot to safe mode? IE 7 is working and I can browse the internet. I don't get why when I enter E:\downloads in the search box it is not finding it as I know it exists.
"mikeyhsd" wrote:
this might help. in the lower corner of the left pane there is a click button to make the folder tree show. you can then drag the divider up to show your computer folder tree.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"Jon" wrote in message I am totally lost trying to figure this new Windows Explorer out. I am by no means a newbie. This thing is making no sense to me at all. I also believe that it is reporting drives (partitions) incorrectly. The search function is totally non functional in my install (5384), can only run in Safe Mode. Just MHO,
Jon

Jon i'm totally with you on this one , even when I'm looking for stuff on my drives is there search returns nothing
"Jon" wrote:

I am totally lost trying to figure this new Windows Explorer out. I am by no means a newbie. This thing is making no sense to me at all. I also believe that it is reporting drives (partitions) incorrectly. The search function is totally non functional in my install (5384), can only run in Safe Mode. Just MHO,
Jon

Hi, I was limited to safe mode when I was having the problem. Once I got into normal mode I found the search worked a lot better. I also found you can still right click My Computer as before and get windows explorer as before.
Jon
"21stcenturyfox" wrote:

Jon i'm totally with you on this one , even when I'm looking for stuff on my drives is there search returns nothing
"Jon" wrote:
I am totally lost trying to figure this new Windows Explorer out. I am by no means a newbie. This thing is making no sense to me at all. I also believe that it is reporting drives (partitions) incorrectly. The search function is totally non functional in my install (5384), can only run in Safe Mode. Just MHO,
Jon

JonK" wrote:

Hi, I was limited to safe mode when I was having the problem. Once I got into normal mode I found the search worked a lot better. I also found you can still right click My Computer as before and get windows explorer as before.
Jon
"21stcenturyfox" wrote:
Jon i'm totally with you on this one , even when I'm looking for stuff on my drives is there search returns nothing
"Jon" wrote:
I am totally lost trying to figure this new Windows Explorer out. I am by no means a newbie. This thing is making no sense to me at all. I also believe that it is reporting drives (partitions) incorrectly. The search function is totally non functional in my install (5384), can only run in Safe Mode. Just MHO,
Count me in as well. I've been toiling with simple text string search for a

few days and cannot get the search facility to work. It finds files who's finename matches the search string but not any files where the string is contained within them. I've tried indexed, non-indexed, search in file and all the other search options I could find, to no avail.
Live Search may have some advantages for some folks but for a straight-forward and ease of use capability, give me the old XP Dead Search capability.
fwiw, the files I'm searching are most CSS file, i.e., *.css which contain only text.