Internet Explorer and Explorer are closely intertwined and this may be a
problem caused by IE. Go to control panel, add remove programs, highlight
IE, click remove and on the resulting screen, select the repair option.
Make sure your anti virus program is disabled. A reinstall of IE might be
necessary.

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Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"Need Help" wrote in message
...
When Windows Explorerer comes up on my
Win98SE box, I always use it in two-pane
mode, folders on the left, content on the
right.

One day last week, it suddenly began showing
only grey on the left panel. I could do a
View|ExplorerBar|History or View|ExplorerBar|Media
or the like, but when I switched back to
View|ExplorerBar|Folders, it was still grey.
I tried these steps:

(1) I read MS Knowledge Base article 179875 on
right pane issues, plus doing a CTRL-NKplus
to set default spacing of content, but this
does not help.

(2) I read article 192315 also, but the value
in this key is not present to be deleted.

(3) I read Ron Badour's article on, "CHANGING
MY COMPUTER TO TWO-PANE EXPLORER SCREEN",
but to no avail. Nothing changed.

How do I get the left pane to start showing
the directory structure again? Win Explorer
is one of my primary tools and this has already
become a major hinderance to my work.

PLEASE HELP!