Folders With Links Close After Closing Link

You mean the folder closes. If you are using the Metro/Start Screen not Desktop. You are dealing with App Folders in Metro, not physical folders in explorer as you would in the desktop.

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You are correct, Sir! However, the same thing happens in Desktop View. As a matter of fact, this folder was created in Desktop & pinned to Start.

Explorer should not be closing, unless it is crashing. All updates installed on the computer? What A/V software are you running on the computer? What web browser are you using?

Web Browser

Internet Explorer 11.

Jayniac said:

Internet Explorer 11.

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You need to still answer the other questions.

Problem Solved by Accident -- With Great Difficulty!

I tried to solve the problem by switching to the browser that I was using previously -- but I picked the wrong link!
I was besieged by popups! I looked for System Restore, but I couldn't find it (It's a new computer). Then, I saw something called Refresh, which I thought was just as good. WRONG! It got rid of the popups -- but it also got rid of Windows, not to mention software which I had just purchased!

But there was a silver lining. Windows was different after reinstallation. Instead of just an X in the corner, there Is now an X, a Box, & a Line, which weren't there before. And, now when I close a File in a Folder, the Folder stays open!

Unfortunately, the Files are stuck in alphabetical order! Does anyone know how to get it back to where I can drag & drop the Files to wherever I want?

Congrats, you ended up with 8.1 update 1, that's why you have minimize and that square in the title bars with Apps. System restore you can find in Control panel under Recovery. If by "files" you mean Tiles in Start screen you can still drag them and drop them but in All apps no.

Drag & Drop Files

AHA! So. if I had purchased my computer a couple of weeks later, I wouldn't have had this problem in the first place. But I had to buy a new computer when I did, because the monitor went, & you don't buy a new monitor for a 10 1/2 year old computer. 10 1/2 years old? Good God, I'm turning into my Father!

Now, when I refer to drag & drop, I'm talking about files, which are links, which I have listed inside a folder. I these folders on both the Desktop & the Start Page. Before the upgrade, closing a file would close the entire folder. Now, I can close each file separately, but the files are frozen in position; they have to be organized in one way or another, whereas I want to drag & drop them & organize them by frequency of use. I've traded one problem for another, which is why I started this thread by saying that Windows 8.1 is Microsoft's version of The New Coke!

Does anyone know of a way around this?

Well, as far as I remember, Ne Coke didn't get fast start and flopped worse than diet one. That's what you get when you don't prepare people for a change properly.
Now I get it what you meant with folders and links, I never had problem with individual linked program to close the folder too. That may happen in Start screen apps but never on desktop. I also never noticed that links within folders can be placed in free order.

Solution!

I figured out a solution! Instead of sorting the Files by Name, I sorted them by TAGS, then added a NUMBER to the name of each FILE!

In other words, for the File that I wanted to be first, I added a 1, then added a 2 for the second one, etc. It's a bit complicated, but I don't want to touch the Registry, & a .Bat file that I thought would solve the problem didn't work after downloading it 4 times. Of course, every time I did an ad for Start8 popped up (I don't even own it).

By the way I found out who invented Windows 8 & 8.1:

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Ah, that's a nice workaround for OS shortcoming. I used that a lot for sorting multimedia files,