The default for my XP Pro SP1 seems to show 'Details'. If you want to hide, then at the 'View' menu, click 'choose details' and then at the right of what comes up, click at 'Hide' ? BTW, what did you do to 'show details' ?
On windows XP, File explorer,
when you click C:\ or Windows directory .. originally you won't see the content of the folder unless you click 'show the folder content'
The question is, how do I restore it back to 'hide' the content, after clicking 'show the folder content?
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