Stopping 98SE from popping open folders?

[bizzybody]

Try this to see how annoying it is.

Launch Windows Explorer.

Click the + next to a folder with sub-folders to expand it.

Click on any subfolder to select it.

Click the - by the top folder to close it.

The folder will collapse THEN POP BACK OPEN, the folder highlight pops briefly back to the folder that was selected before clicking the -, then jumps to the top folder, displaying its contents in the right pane.

Is there a way to stop the $#$%%# thing from popping the folder back open? If _I_ wanted it open, I wouldn't have clicked the - to close it. That's been one of the main things I've hated about 98/98SE from the first time I used it. (I don't recall if 95 did this.)

In other words, I want it to work like it does in 2000, the folder collapses and shifts the selection to the top folder where the - was clicked.

If it's possible, I'd also like to disable the automatic opening of subfolders when dragging files. _I_ will open the folder tree to the exact place I will be moving or copying, thankyouverymuch.

'Course then MS had to do something "better" with XP's default "Simple Folder View" that assumes the user is such an id*** that he can only handle having one folder open at a time.

Edited October 7, 2005 by bizzybody

[TargaX]

In other words, I want it to work like it does in 2000, the folder collapses and shifts the selection to the top folder where the - was clicked.

I tried exactly as you suggested, and this is exactly what happens for me. ^^^

I don't know what your settings are for explorer, but mine "collapses the folder and shifts the selection to the top folder where the - was clicked". (Win98SE + SP1)

Maybe a registry tweak?