I miss the simplicity of the old windows explorer. That being said, the only way I know of to have some indication of which folders have sub-folders and which don't on Vista is as follows:. go to Control Panel. open Folder Options. go to the View tab.
Under Advanced Settings and under Files and Folders. there is a checkbox: Display simple folder view in Navigation pane. Now in your folder tree view, the folder nodes that that don't have any subfolders will have a straight line flowing down their left side whereas those folders with subfolders have a blank space (where the triangle would be) on their left side with dots above and below the blank space. I checked aero.msstyles (the file which contains all the visual resources) and it seems that treeview expander glyphs are resource ids #804-812.
I was hoping to find a transparent resource or zone which might have hold a non-hovered, transparent version of the expander, but it nothing like that seems present (the idea being that if such a resource existed, one could edit it with the appropriate expander icons). I also checked Aero's UIFILE resource in shellstyle.dll, looking for something related to focus or mouse movement for treeview expanders. Again, no dice. Therefore I think that it is probably not possible, at least not through editing the visual style files.
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Dec 07, 2017 I need to know how to view the ENTIRE file tree in ONE view (one pane only), NOT with a separate navigation pane on the left and the individual files in a separate pane on the right. Here is an alternative way to display the folder/file hierarchy (not in Explorer), open File Explorer and navigate to the folder you wish to start. Aug 10, 2006 My preferred view of Windows Explorer is a window with details listed and the folder tree on the left side of the screen. I recently purchased a new Emachine and cannot change my default view.
The easiest way to get a folder list in tree view in Windows is to use a command line called Tree. But you will be out of luck if you want to do the same directly in File Explore, previously called Windows Explorer in Windows 7, which is oddly enough considering Windows Explorer is the primary tool in Windows for navigating folders and files.
But I am going to show you a pretty neat trick in this post that lets you to export a folder structure in tree view right from File Explorer. Before we start, let’s take a quick look how the command line Tree works because we will be to get the tree view of a specific folder. The syntax is pretty easy: Tree drive:path /F /A Where /F is to list the files in addition to each folder, and /A is to output the structure to a text file. So we will be using both the switches to export the data. Now open File Explorer, navigate to the folder you want to export its structure. In my case, it’s “c: drivers”.
Then, type the following command in the address bar in File Explorer.