refresh Windows Explorer via navigation keys?

In XP I was used to navigating folders in Windows Explorer with the
down-arrow or up-arrow keys. When in the left pane (folder pane),
pressing down-arrow to get to the next folder would refresh the right
pane (file pane). I.e., the arrow keys in the left pane were equivalent
to single-clicking. I see that in Vista this doesn't work, at least by
default. I have to navigate via the arrow key and then press Enter to
refresh the right pane.

Is there a configuration option to turn this on? Thanks.

I'm also interested in being able to emulate XP's way of navigatin
Windows Explorer. I dislike Vista's way of doing it immensely

As someone else said here in another thread somewhere, changing thing
around doesn't make it better. It just makes things harder to find an
more difficult to use

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Hi Rick,

I wish there was, but no such option exists.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"Rick" <> wrote in message
news:...
> In XP I was used to navigating folders in Windows Explorer with the
> down-arrow or up-arrow keys. When in the left pane (folder pane),
> pressing down-arrow to get to the next folder would refresh the right pane
> (file pane). I.e., the arrow keys in the left pane were equivalent to
> single-clicking. I see that in Vista this doesn't work, at least by
> default. I have to navigate via the arrow key and then press Enter to
> refresh the right pane.
>
> Is there a configuration option to turn this on? Thanks.

This was simply eliminated? You could do this in *all* earlier versions
of Windows. Man, what a drag. I wonder what their rationale was?
Anyway, thanks for your response; I've been wondering about that for a
while.

Rick Rogers wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> I wish there was, but no such option exists.
>

Rick Rogers;795233 Wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> I wish there was, but no such option exists.


Ah that's too bad. I think this would have been a more worthwhile
"extra" than that "DreamScape" monstrosity, and probably a good deal
easier to develop. :-/

Another thing I dislike about this new Explorer is that it only rarely,
and I mean -rarely- remembers the size and location of previously opened
folders. One thing I did in XP is arrange folder sets that I used
together in such a way that I could open the first folder, then hold the
control key down and double click the next one to three folers, and
they'd all open into a nicely organized set of two to four folders. Was
real nice, very slick.

Now, even with "[x] Remember each folder's view settings", folders are
nearly always opened to a default size in a cascaded ordering position.
I want to throw rocks at whoever undid XP's perfectly functional Windows
Explorer viewing and navigation scheme.

This is another problem with companies thinking of their customers as
consumers instead of people. They feel such an overpowering need to
change everything around that there is no way to ever reach an optimal
phase of development. New and flashy doesn't mean better. Cheap plastic
children's toys, dispensed from a plastic bubble dispenser for fifty
cents, are new and flashy, for a few minutes until they break. Vista has
the look and feel, and effective using power, of a fifty cent bubble
toy.

Take Word, for instance. I think it may have reached its most optimal
phase with Office 98, which I still use because the newer versions are
so overwhelmingly bloated and feature-ridden that it's just more
sensible to stick with the more optimal environment.

Same thing here, the simple task of navigating a tree of folders has
gone from streamline and fairly optimal to being an absolute mess. It's
spaghetti-ware, crazy-ware, feature-ware--but hardly 'software' at this
point.


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