**//Wierd behaviour in explorer (W98)

[jhsurti]

I have been encountering this problem of late. When I am navigating in the windows explorer, I normally click on the folder in the left pane to see the files in the right pane. Then when i want to collapse the expanded folder tree, I click on the - to the left of the folder. Here the wierd thing happens. The folder collapses for a second and again expands. I have to click on the - sign again to collapse it. Cannot find any solution to this behaviour. Interestingly, this happens only on the highlighted folder. If the folder is not selected and I click the - sign, it collapses in a single click but if it is a selected folder, the wierd stuff i said happens.
IS THERE ANY REGISTRY TWEAK or any other tweak to correct this problem? I defrag my drives regularly. I have Windows 98se.

[report_2]

I use the single click method and find a similar problem opening Notepad files. I often get two occurances of Notepad open.

I believe it is because of the way I click on the file.
Similar to clicking and dragging without the drag; meaning that I click downward but do not release immediately so what happens is that I get a click on the down stroke and another click on the up stroke.

The single click method is similar to your situation whereas the problem only occurs on a selected folder. Selecting the folder is the first of two clicks on a double click setup.

I find if I just tap the mouse key then I always get one occurance.

I am not saying this to bore you with my anomolies but to suggest that your's is a similar situation. I am suggesting that the behavior is User related rather than soft/hardware related.

My mouse has a hair trigger I suppose. Like the gun fighters of days gone by I like the hair trigger otherwise.

[jhsurti]

It is not only with mouse that this happens. It ALSO happens when I use only the keyboard arrows for the manouevres. And I have tried using the key-stroke pretty fast not allowing the pressure too long. Had it been with the mouse only, I would have thought it has something to do with my way of handling it. I even tried asking my friends to operate for a few folders and everyone faced the same scenario and they were all wondering why that happens.
Win98 still keeps on amazing me with newer and newer behaviour everytime.

[Mosaic1]

Do you have View as Web Page Selected? I have heard of the Folders pane doing this and it is usually because of Active Desktop. The solution has always been a workaround. Not viewing as Web Page.

[jhsurti]

Yes I was using View as Web page. Changing it to the old style DID make a difference. Now that behaviour is gone. Thanks a lot. But still wierd the way Microsoft apps behave at times.