AutoArrange

[Menno Hershberger]

I have a couple of folders on my desktop (Windows 7 Home Premium) that I
would like to be able to arrange the icons the way I want them. But I
cannot drag them around. Right clicking within the folder and choosing
"view" does not offer the autoarrange option as it does on the desktop. I
can choose "sort by" options but none of the options allows me to arrange
them the way I want them.
I dual boot Windows 7 and XP and truthfully I use XP most of the time since
I have run into a lot of stuff like this I just haven't been able to figure
out. One would think that the newer operating system would have *more*
features instead of less.
What am I missing on this autoarrange thing?

 

[Bruce Hagen]

I have a couple of folders on my desktop (Windows 7 Home Premium) that I
would like to be able to arrange the icons the way I want them. But I
cannot drag them around. Right clicking within the folder and choosing
"view" does not offer the autoarrange option as it does on the desktop.
I
can choose "sort by" options but none of the options allows me to
arrange
them the way I want them.
I dual boot Windows 7 and XP and truthfully I use XP most of the time
since
I have run into a lot of stuff like this I just haven't been able to
figure
out. One would think that the newer operating system would have *more*
features instead of less.
What am I missing on this autoarrange thing?

The people that know more about what you want in a PC than yourself
decided to do away with that in Win7. Most of the bitching I hear is the
lack to be able to move pictures around in a folder. With earlier Windows
versions, you just unchecked Auto-Arrange. But with Win7, there is no
Auto-Arrange to uncheck.

This fix works for the pictures issue, and some others. I does not work in
every folder, but you have nothing to lose in trying. It adds the missing
Auto-Arrange option to many folders, and for those that it does, the
problem is solved.

You can use this registry hack to get it back like you want it. A ZIP file
is available if you don't want to do it manually.

How to Disable Full Row Select in Explorer in Windows 7?
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/disable-full-row-select-explorer-windows-7/

And please let Microsoft know of your displeasure of this change.

Leave Windows 7 Feedback
http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Windows 7/Feedback.aspx?formID=195

 

[Menno Hershberger]

The people that know more about what you want in a PC than yourself
decided to do away with that in Win7. Most of the bitching I hear is
the lack to be able to move pictures around in a folder. With earlier
Windows versions, you just unchecked Auto-Arrange. But with Win7,
there is no Auto-Arrange to uncheck.

This fix works for the pictures issue, and some others. I does not
work in every folder, but you have nothing to lose in trying. It adds
the missing Auto-Arrange option to many folders, and for those that it
does, the problem is solved.

You can use this registry hack to get it back like you want it. A ZIP
file is available if you don't want to do it manually.

How to Disable Full Row Select in Explorer in Windows 7?
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/disable-full-row-select-explorer-wind
ows-7/

And please let Microsoft know of your displeasure of this change.

Leave Windows 7 Feedback
http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Windows 7/Feedback.aspx?formID=195

Thank you! I downloaded the reg file(s) and it restored the Auto Arrange
option and it worked perfect.

As to letting Microsoft know, I would doubt seriously if they even care.
I had the RC version of Windows 7 and gave a lot of feedback about
several items that were never fixed. One of the is the instability of the
left hand pane in Windows Explorer. Half the time when you expand a
folder instead of moving to the top so you can see the expanded folder
list it will move to the bottom and you have to scroll down to see them.
Or about the time you go to click on something in that folder everything
moves.

Damn, don't get me started! If you click on a folder on the left side
that has a lot of stuff in it, then the right pane can take a long time
to populate depending on how much stuff is there. None of the above is
true in XP.

I will go to your link and give them my 2 cents worth but I'm sure that's
all it will be worth to them.

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Thank you! I downloaded the reg file(s) and it restored the Auto Arrange
option and it worked perfect.

As to letting Microsoft know, I would doubt seriously if they even care.
I had the RC version of Windows 7 and gave a lot of feedback about
several items that were never fixed. One of the is the instability of
the
left hand pane in Windows Explorer. Half the time when you expand a
folder instead of moving to the top so you can see the expanded folder
list it will move to the bottom and you have to scroll down to see them.
Or about the time you go to click on something in that folder everything
moves.

Damn, don't get me started! If you click on a folder on the left side
that has a lot of stuff in it, then the right pane can take a long time
to populate depending on how much stuff is there. None of the above is
true in XP.

I will go to your link and give them my 2 cents worth but I'm sure
that's
all it will be worth to them.

If MS sells 10 million Win7 PCs, and 7 million people leave the same
feedback, they will take notice. If most people are apathetic and MS only
gets a few thousand complaints, then they will think the majority is
happy. It is up to us users not to have the "Oh well, MS will never fix it
so why bother" attitude.