How can I enable friendly trees in Windows Explorer?

John Savill

July 30, 2006

1 Min Read
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A. Friendly trees enable automatic folder expansion when you select a disk, and any other expanded disks will collapse giving a cleaner view:

  1. Start the registry editor (regedit.exe).

  2. Navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced registry subkey.

  3. Double click the "FriendlyTree" value (or create the DWORD type value if it doesn't exist).

  4. Set the value to 1 to enable the feature or 0 to disable it.

  5. Click OK and close the registry editor.

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