Branching Tree in File Explorer Vanished After Update

Do you mean like this:

All I had to do was click the little arrow on the left of any folder name. Then clicking a folder name shows the contents in the right pane.

Click on This PC in the left Navigation pane, on the Ribbon go to View and check some of the settings, if there's a Default or Reset button try that. Your image shows you are in the Music folder. You may not be showing that Navigation pane on the left, the setting is also on the View tab.

Thanks, Berton, I'll look at those arcane settings again to see if I can figure out what has changed. I've already poked around in there this morning, and tried making a few changes, to no avail.

Interestingly though, I just looked at the File Explorer on my PC, which also updated last night, and it still looks and works as it always did:


So I'll take a look at the settings on the PC to see if I can spot where they may differ from the settings on my laptop. But first I have to get some breakfast! I'm starved! And we're in the middle of a blizzard out here in Seattle this morning.

Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"

P.S.

Bingo! I found a couple of check boxes in the settings on the laptop, that didn't match the settings on the PC; changed them, and now things are back to "normal," (if Windows 10 can ever be called "normal." ) Here's what File Explorer on the laptop looks like now:


I don't know how I would've solved that problem if I hadn't had those alternate settings on my PC at hand for comparison.

Thanks again for being so generous with your time and expertise.

Will

abrogard said:

what settings??? help, help, please, please...

this a totally new install of win10 today and already unusable because of this....

what settings.. please..

Right-click in a blank area of the File explorer, Navigation pane below all the other entries then select Expand to current folder.

Denis