How to enable friendly trees in Windows Explorer

Contributed by Rob Rogers  
Tagged: Windows networking  

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_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced 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.