Windows 10: Not Sure What I Did To Cause This? No Left Pane Content...

so whadya think folks, what could i have possibly done to cause the left pane folders to disappear when i'm trying to save something, like an image, or when i try to install a program during the "pick other destination" dialog? my pc seems to be running just fine, and when i open explorer everything shows as usual in the left pane... any help would be appreciated!

ps - reboot does nothing nor does killing explorer in task manager and then restarting it....





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Yikes! Not sure what I did

Buffy

You set what open a particular file in default program control panel. (win key +"X">control panel>default programs>associate a file type....

What is opening them now?

What type of file are they (for example "doc" files, or "jpeg", etc)?

 

Yikes! Not sure what I did

I have somehow changed the program I was using to open Word documents and my pictures. How do I correct this?

 

plot thickens.... if use the up arrow (next to the address bar) to navigate to the top, i get the following, besides being strange in that my c: drive isn't visible, neither is my d: drive... as mentioned before, everything is find in explorer...

 

Try this ... Click on Organize / Layout / Navigation Pane

 

that was one of the first things i tried, for the heck of it, even tho that's not the prob, as you can see the panel is there, just no folders, the "organize>layout>navigation panel" setting simply hides the left pane or shows it... and again, this only happens with the (for a lack of a better term) "dialog explorer", the explorer that pops up when you try to save something, the "regular" explorer is fine....

 

Yea, figured that would've been to easy *Smile If you haven't already, try running sfc /scannow and see what it says.

 

thanks for trying e51.... also, had already tried sfc /scannow, everything reported as fine....

 

update.... looks like it worked itself out, everything is fine now, very weird.