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....

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

Eagle51 said:

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 :) If you haven't already, try running sfc /scannow and see what it says.

Eagle51 said:

Yea, figured that would've been to easy :) 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.