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DISPLAYING WINDOWS FOLDER IN WINDOWS EXPLORER
One of the new features of Windows 98 and ME
that I found annoying was this fact: if you have selected
the view as web page option for folders, and you try in
Windows Explorer to display the contents of the Windows
folder, or of the Windows\System folder, you cannot,
without going through another step. What you get instead
is this message: "Modifying the contents of this
folder may cause your programs to stop working correctly.
To view the contents of this folder, click Show
Files." The words "show files" are
underlined and in blue; they are a link which you can
click. Is there any way of bypassing this
"feature"?
Well, one way of doing it is to turn off the view as web
page option for your folders. Click on the Tools menu,
then select Folder Options, then on the General tab,
select Use Windows classic folders rather than Enable Web
content in folders, and click on OK. But if you want to
retain the possibility of viewing as web page, you will
need to do this: in both the Windows folder and the
Windows\System folder, rename a file called folder.htt to
something else, say folder.old. Then go to the
Windows\WEB folder and copy its folder.htt to the Windows
and Windows\System folders.
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