Empty Navigation pane.

Spudd · 27 Dec 2009

Hi all,

Been reading the forums for a while now, and only just registered, so hello

I have had win7 installed for quite a while now and all seems ok'ish.

My problem is, that when ever I go to open or save files from various programs first noticed in Firefox, the navigation pane is empty and subsequently I can not change to the desired location.

I can not place the time/date it started so I don't know which (if any) restore point to use.

I can see the navigation pane in Windows Explorer but not from a program.

Any Ideas would be appreciated.

Cheers

Spud

**Capt.Jack Sparrow** · 27 Dec 2009

Spudd said:

Hi all,

Been reading the forums for a while now, and only just registered, so hello

I have had win7 installed for quite a while now and all seems ok'ish.

My problem is, that when ever I go to open or save files from various programs first noticed in Firefox, the navigation pane is empty and subsequently I can not change to the desired location.

I can not place the time/date it started so I don't know which (if any) restore point to use.

I can see the navigation pane in Windows Explorer but not from a program.

Any Ideas would be appreciated.

Cheers

Spud

Hi Spud, Welcome to SF,

Could you post a screen shot. Go To Start under search Snipping Tool using that take a screen shot and post it

Thanks

Spudd · 27 Dec 2009

Thanks for the quick reply

here is a snip..

Sorry, I should also add that another program, shows only, what I think is my library.

**Capt.Jack Sparrow** · 27 Dec 2009

Thanks for the screen-shot

Make sure that you have the Navigation Toolbar and other toolbars visible: View > Toolbars.
If you do not see that item then click the

Restore Default Set

button in the View > Toolbars > Customize window.

Spudd · 27 Dec 2009

Hi, Capt.Jack,

Not sure what that will do for other programs like IE, Opera, DaemonTools, imgburn, nero, but I'll give it a go.

**Capt.Jack Sparrow** · 27 Dec 2009

Spudd said:

Hi, Capt.Jack,

Not sure what that will do for other programs like IE, Opera, DaemonTools, imgburn, nero, but I'll give it a go.

I apologize . Did you apply any custom theme ?? Its worth trying it in a New Windows User Profile. So we know whether something is wrong with the Windows Profile or not

Hope this helps

Spudd · 27 Dec 2009

I hadn't tried that, I have just changed the theme on my profile and it made no change..

I then added a new profile left everything alone, went straight to Firefox and it is still the same

So it appears to be not the profile.

Brink · 27 Dec 2009

Hello Spudd, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might see if running a sfc /scannow command may be able to help?

As a test, uninstall and reinstall one of the programs that this happens in to see if it is a progam or Windows 7 issue.

If none of the above help, then you might consider a repair install.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Spudd · 27 Dec 2009

Cheers for the suggestions, I will try them in a mo..

meanwhile I have Opera installed and as you will see it has a XP style navigation pane..

Spudd · 28 Dec 2009

Just a quick update.

Thanks Brink for pointing me to sfc /scannow this showed a lot of corruption in the log, it was a little hard reading it as the file itself was 32Mb and it took ages to anything with it.

I was then going to run a repair from the Win7 DVD but stupidly let it start up from desktop and not booting from it. I didn't get the repair option

and was reluctant to stop the install just incase it screwed the hdd up which I would then have to mess about with mbr and so on..

Any way.. the error (as you may have guessed) has now gone, but I have no idea what caused it and no idea how to correct it if it happens again.