Navigating Explorer using arrow keys - new behaviour


  1. Posts : 124
    Dual boot XP Pro and Seven/7127
       #1

    Navigating Explorer using arrow keys - new behaviour


    I like to navigate Explorer using the arrow keys.
    In XP, when I selected a folder with say my down arrow key, the contents of the folder would be displayed. That's what I am used to.

    However using Seven and navigating with arrow keys the folder contents are not refreshed. They continue to show the previous folder.
    I have to touch the space bar to get it to display the files in a folder.
    I am not used to this and I don't like it one little bit
    Surely this behaviour is not the way forward
    Please reassure me...
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  2. Posts : 1,872
    Windows 10 Pro x64, Windows 8.1 Pro x64, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1,
       #2

    I hate to say it but Vista was this way as well. I never used that feature so I don't care but this is not new behavior unless you never used Vista.
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  3. Posts : 124
    Dual boot XP Pro and Seven/7127
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Thanks pbcopter,
    as you guessed I have come straight from XP to Seven.
    No Classic Menu and a Lazy Explorer
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  4. Posts : 1
    Windows 7 64-bit
       #4

    I am facing the same problem

    I just posted a thread on this issue:

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  5. Posts : 6,305
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #5

    Since Vista, pressing Left/Right while in an expandable branch/folder will expand/shrink the current branch/folder
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  6. Posts : 6
    windows 7
       #6

    It worked in windows Vista


    I was able to scroll in windows Vista, I agree, its really annonying, does anyone know how to fix it? If you want to scroll through folders really quickly surely there is a way to do it?
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