Georgea623,

Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum.
Stop all background applications.
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**Clearing the Startup Folder.**

Click on (Start,Programs,)
Find the (Startup) folder, and right click the mouse button over it.
You should get a small gray windows.
Go down to "Explore" and left click on "Explore"
You should get a "Startup" window that is split in two.
High light and delete all the icons on the right hand side of the Window.

**Using MSconfig to stop all background programs.**

Left-click on START | RUN.
Type in "msconfig" in the "Open" dialog box and left-click on "OK."
When the "System Configuration Utility" window appears, the "General" tab will be visible. Left-click on "Selective Startup."
Remove the check marks from each choice except "System.ini," by left clicking on the check marks.
Click the Startup tab.
Uncheck every entry.
Left-click on "Apply" and then left-click on "OK."
A message will appear stating that "For the changes to take place, the system must be restarted." Left-click on the "OK" button, and the system will begin the restart.

If the problem stops, then try using the steps below, to isolate the program that
is causing the problem.
Repeat the first couple steps above, but instead of un-checking the entries, re-check one entry at a time until you have identified the category that is the cause of the problem. After you have isolated the application, utility, or device driver that is causing the problem, you will be able to proceed with further troubleshooting. One of the easiest methods to attempt a resolution is to reinstall the problematic application or device driver. The entry causing the problem can be left disabled if it does not affect system operation.

**Delete old dos/legacy configuration files.**

Search the system for these files, delete them.
Autoexec.bat
Config.sys
Win.ini
-Delete "All" the files and folders in the ( C:\Windows\Temp ) and
( C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files ) folder.
Search the system for any ( *.TMP ) files, and delete them.
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What does this have to do with creating new folders?

Georgea,

You stated when you create a folder is does not show up.
This may be caused by an application running in the background,
or because you have too many applications running in the background.
If you are low on system resources, it may cause the system not to refresh
the screen when creating a new folder.

That's not the case.  I just installed Windows XP Pro and the updates.  That's all that was on the machine at that point in time.  I did notice that when I changed my file views to details, the problem went away.

Has anyone figure out the answer to the original question here?

I'm currently having the exact same problem. In Windows XP Pro on my Inspiron 8500, whenever I right click in almost any explorer view to create a new folder, the folder is created, but it's name is NOT highlighted in "edit mode". So I then have to browse through the folder in which I was creating the new folder to find it and manually rename it... REALLY frustrating as every other Windows XP machine I've tried doesn't act this way.

I followed the instructions from DELL-Karell and the problem never went away...

Thanks,

greg

 

Message Edited by giantKillerRobot on 05-25-2004 10:18 PM

Hi this helped me, it worked straight away!

social.technet.microsoft.com/.../option-to-create-new-folder-on-desktop-is-missing