Left Pane In Explorer Greyed Out
Dec 10, 2002I have seen this problem listed for Win98 and ME, but not for Win2000. I just updated IE to 6.0 and now the left pane in Explorer is greyed out and blank,fix for Win2000?
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Clicking on "New Connection Wizard", then select the "Connect to my
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is greyed out.
I've googled on this problem and found issues suggesting that
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