Last year I downloaded some kind of freeware/shareware program that would
customize your folder settings. One option was to adjust the width of the
columns when you have a folder set to "List View".

At the time, I made the columns extremely wide to read all of the file names
without Windows shortening them up. Now, these columns are much too wide and
I would like to reduce the width back to normal. How can I do this?

Hi,

Hit ctrl+ the plus (+) sign in the number pad to reset them.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Rich" <Rich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Last year I downloaded some kind of freeware/shareware program that would
> customize your folder settings. One option was to adjust the width of the
> columns when you have a folder set to "List View".
>
> At the time, I made the columns extremely wide to read all of the file
> names
> without Windows shortening them up. Now, these columns are much too wide
> and
> I would like to reduce the width back to normal. How can I do this?

Thank you for helping me but unfortunately, your suggestion didn't work. As
best as I could tell, nothing happened.

"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Hit ctrl+ the plus (+) sign in the number pad to reset them.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Rich" <Rich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C7ADFC53-F306-4993-93B8-3F89D2B76999@microsoft.com...
> > Last year I downloaded some kind of freeware/shareware program that would
> > customize your folder settings. One option was to adjust the width of the
> > columns when you have a folder set to "List View".
> >
> > At the time, I made the columns extremely wide to read all of the file
> > names
> > without Windows shortening them up. Now, these columns are much too wide
> > and
> > I would like to reduce the width back to normal. How can I do this?
>
>
>

Hi,

Make sure that you a) click in the right pane first and b) are using the
plus (+) sign on the numberpad, not the one on the alpha portion of the
keyboard (in a laptop, use the Fn key and appropriate corresponding key,
often the colon).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Rich" <Rich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:02DFD55C-7080-495A-9E2C-21955D45558C@microsoft.com...
> Thank you for helping me but unfortunately, your suggestion didn't work.
> As
> best as I could tell, nothing happened.
>
> "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hit ctrl+ the plus (+) sign in the number pad to reset them.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
>> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>>
>> "Rich" <Rich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:C7ADFC53-F306-4993-93B8-3F89D2B76999@microsoft.com...
>> > Last year I downloaded some kind of freeware/shareware program that
>> > would
>> > customize your folder settings. One option was to adjust the width of
>> > the
>> > columns when you have a folder set to "List View".
>> >
>> > At the time, I made the columns extremely wide to read all of the file
>> > names
>> > without Windows shortening them up. Now, these columns are much too
>> > wide
>> > and
>> > I would like to reduce the width back to normal. How can I do this?
>>
>>
>>

Double click the header divider to open a column to the width needed to view
the longest entry. You have to drag it back to get it to be narrow again.

Click and Drag a header divider to change the width of a column.

How to Change Column Settings in Windows Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;310297

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:C7ADFC53-F306-4993-93B8-3F89D2B76999@microsoft.com,
Rich <Rich@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> Last year I downloaded some kind of freeware/shareware program that would
> customize your folder settings. One option was to adjust the width of the
> columns when you have a folder set to "List View".
>
> At the time, I made the columns extremely wide to read all of the file
> names without Windows shortening them up. Now, these columns are much too
> wide and I would like to reduce the width back to normal. How can I do
> this?