I must have done something wrong the firat time that I tried this. I gave it one more try, and it worked. Thanks, Banfa....

I tried setting the suggested Registry key, but all that did was to deny me access to the folders.
It is currently set to SEARCH, and I do not know what info I would need to set it to EXPLORE. I don't know what value to enter to create a new item to have it open in explore mode.

Any other ideas???

Grey0...

I have a problem. When I doubleclick to open a file folder, it defaults to SEARCH. When I right click on the folder, SEARCH is set as the default...the option to EXPLORE is listed, but when I open the folder and click on TOOLS, FOLDER OPTIONS, FILE TYPES, then select ADVANCED for FILE FOLDER type... the EXPLORE option is not there in the EDIT FILE TYPE box.

There are two file types listed under file types: FOLDER and FILE FOLDER....