You may have a couple of things going on here.

First, the File Association with "Folder"  probably is set to "Search" as
the default action (and not "Open").  That would explain the Search opening
and also why Search is bolded when you right click.  Also Windows Explorer
is probably set to "Single click to open" which would initiate the Search
default.

To fix:  Under Tools, Folder Options, File Associations tab, highlight
Folder (not File Folder) and click on the Advanced button.  Then highlight
"explore" in the bottom window and then click on "Set as default".  That
should get you back to exploring again.

Hope this helps.

Doug


At 12/11/2003 08:13 PM, Fortescue, Marshall wrote:

>In Windows Explorer, in the "folders" view...I have a list of folders on
>the left side and the contents on the right side.  If I double click on
>a folder on the left side, the contents show up on the right side.  But
>(and here's the issue)...If I single click on the left side, and go to
>the right side to open a subfolder...the default action is NOT "explore"
>but rather "search"....This is not what I want, I want to open the
>folder, not search for something.  It appears to work OK if I do ALL of
>my navigation on the left side...but as soon as I try to access a folder
>on the right side, I get the "search" function as the the default
>action.  (Search is bolded if I were to right click on the folder to
>choose an action.
>
>Does anybody out here understand what I'm describing?  And is there a
>way to get the default action on the right side of Windows Explorer to
>revert back to Explore?

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