Windows Explorer navigation pane changing position when viewing sub directories

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Try this and then offer suggestion. Open Windows Explorer and open up enough drives and or directories to completely fill the nav pane. Now view a directory at the bottom of the list and make sure it has a sub-directory. Click the plus to view the sub-directory and bam, the focus goes to the top of the nav pane when we clearly are working at the bottom of the list. This is very annoying. I mentioned this during the testing phase of Win7 more than three times and no body listened. I may look for an Explorer replacement if some of the issues with it arent fixed. And to think there was nothing wrong with Windows Explorer and it didnt need to be refined, repaired, fixed, or anything but Microsoft just had to fool with it and make it totally dis-functional. The search is all screwed up too. You cant right click, search a directory anymore. Not happy with this OPSYS and still believe it was released pre-maturely.

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Anonymous

2011-10-13T19:10:32+00:00

Wow, its now almost 2 years since Microsoft Customers expressed their irritation at this BUG and its still not fixed. What a way to run a business!

Why is it taking so long?

The left pane scrolling bug is still present in an early release of Windows 8.

If you have tried the Windows 8 Developer Preview (an early version of Windows 8) you will notice that it still scrolls the left pane incorrectly, just as Windows 7 does.

To provide your input on the bug:

Windows 8 Developer Preview thread to discuss the bug:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsdeveloperpreviewgeneral/thread/e3ed9cb4-5f73-47cc-b08b-9a4bc8efad09

Vote to have the bug fixed at Microsoft Connect:

http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsServerFeedback/feedback/details/621426/bug-when-expanding-folders-in-explorer-server-2008-r2-and-windows-7

You can see the left pane scroll bug here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGdGoO7Anis

This shows one way to reproduce it, clicking the triangle/arrow to expand a folder you're currently viewing also reproduces it.
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Anonymous

2011-06-20T23:53:26+00:00

Please fix this - this is a bug not a feature.

Now it is history.
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Anonymous

2011-06-14T22:10:37+00:00

Go to Tools> folder options>General tab. Disable "Automatically expand to current folder." You'll have to do some scrolling, but not NEAR as much as before.

This was very helpful. Once I did this the navigation problem (folder window going off in its own world) appears to have stopped.

Funnily enough, the issue stopped for me when I did the opposite and enabled this. Further evidence of the new RANDOM feature.
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