Windows Explorer question

[Allen Drake]

(Wanting to apply "Details" view to all folders.)

In message <[email protected]>, Seum <[email protected]>
writes:
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I have managed to get to the Folder Options window and found checkboxes
under View. I visited WikiPedia and found that icons were large
pictures
and thumbnails were much smaller.

Yes, I'm sure some previous OS called them "large icons" and "small
icons", making things much clearer!

Oh - I've just found that in 7 too. (As well as "Extra large" and
"Medium".)
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In Folder Options /View and I saw checkboxes for:
Always show icons, never thumbnails.
and
Display file icon on thumbnails.

It seems that the difference between icons and thumbnails is not clear
in Win 7.

I think it's that in 7, even in the details view, it can show tiny
thumbnails rather than file-type icons (presumably, only for image-type
files). Slower, but then 7 machines tend to be faster anyway.

I clicked Details before I started looking at the Folder Options but
there I don't see anything to nail down Details.

Indeed; I always found it illogical, and it's been carried over into 7,
that it comes under two separate menus, View and Tools. (And under
Tools, it's buried about three levels down - Tools, Folder Options, View.)

Basically, what I want is to rigidly fix Details and block the other
possibilities. I can get enough thumbnails with InfanView. I am peed
off
with having to click Details over and over.
Anyway ... if you've got into that dialog *after* you've already
selected Details view, then clicking "Apply to Folders" should make
the change that you want (it will ask you to confirm).

Why have they decided in 7 to drop the "all" - in XP it said "Apply to
All Folders", which IMO was much clearer.

'Apply to Folders' is greyed out on my Folder Options and the "Reset
Folders" button is waiting to be thumped.

I'm still flying by the seat of my pants

Me too - and it's greyed out (as is Reset Folders next to it) for me
too! I'm guessing it's something to do with the folder - or possibly
something that isn't a folder - I'm "on".

Thanks for your interest.

Ditto.

I bought my first Win 7 computer and, from the beginning I thought the
whole program was scattered all over. In my opinion previous Wins were
much more coherent with small variations from one Win to Another. This 7
is out on a limb.

I am making a post of what happened last night to my Win 7.

Thanks John.

They want to keep you busy until Win8 arrives in the spring.

http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&...lient=pub-7219711649035077&channel=7046704419

 

[Sunny Bard]

Why have they decided in 7 to drop the "all" - in XP it said "Apply to
All Folders", which IMO was much clearer.

Becuase now it doesn't apply to ALL folders, it applies to ALL FOLDERS
OF THIS TYPE

So if you apply "details" view to a normal folder that's the default for
all other normal folder, but now you can have "large icons" view for all
your picture library folder and "small icons" for your music libraries ...

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

From the snippets I've seen, Win8 looks like it continues the pendulum
swing ...

Ribbons in explorer = yuck

http://www.withinwindows.com/2011/04/02/windows-8-secrets-windows-explorer-ribbon/

Start screen interface that looks like a giant Win7Mobile = yuck.

+1

OTOH, I haven't looked in much depth, and also I have read in passing
that it can be made to look more normal (or "normal" in quotes!), but I
think for me the word is trepidation, not anticipation.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

OTOH, I haven't looked in much depth, and also I have read in passing
that it can be made to look more normal (or "normal" in quotes!), but I
think for me the word is trepidation, not anticipation.

I meant to say "the word *for how I am waiting for Windows 8* is
trepidation, not anticipation", sorry.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <[email protected]>, Gene E. Bloch

OTOH, I haven't looked in much depth, and also I have read in passing
that it can be made to look more normal (or "normal" in quotes!), but I
think for me the word is trepidation, not anticipation.

That'll be the so-called "classic view", or some such phrase. A sop
only: it will only go one iteration back, and even then probably at the
expense of ditching some new features.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Becuase now it doesn't apply to ALL folders, it applies to ALL FOLDERS
OF THIS TYPE

So if you apply "details" view to a normal folder that's the default
for all other normal folder, but now you can have "large icons" view
for all your picture library folder and "small icons" for your music
libraries ...

Ah, thanks; interesting. Though the button should have been labelled
"all such folders" or something: just "Apply to Folders" is a bit odd.

 

[D]

I call it 'stupidification'. Software so dumbed down and features
removed that it starts to become unusable.

Well put. Particularly with the Internet & associated programs, how
about "Stupidification in the pursuit of Incessant Crap Peddling". Same
thing that happened with radio/TV. Incredible media of
education/information basically reduced as much as possible to nothing
but advertising.

 

[D]

Apple wants to get rid of any mention of files.

Ohhh, silly user, don't bother your little head about any of THAT. If
you have a problem, just go visit the "Genius Bar".

Almost lost my lunch the 1st time I heard that term...

And while your at the GB, how about a nice "I-Pod". Whaddya mean it
costs so much more than an "MP3 player"??? See how WHITE it is? Seeee?
WHIIIIIITTTTEEEE...

;-)

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Ohhh, silly user, don't bother your little head about any of THAT. If
you have a problem, just go visit the "Genius Bar".

To be fair, PCWorld (in UK anyway) have been using a similar term (I
think it has "geeks" in it) for some time.

Almost lost my lunch the 1st time I heard that term...

And while your at the GB, how about a nice "I-Pod". Whaddya mean it
costs so much more than an "MP3 player"??? See how WHITE it is? Seeee?
WHIIIIIITTTTEEEE...

;-)

Indeed!

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

In message <[email protected]>, Gene E. Bloch

That'll be the so-called "classic view", or some such phrase. A sop
only: it will only go one iteration back, and even then probably at the
expense of ditching some new features.

With any luck, I might never find out

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Ah, thanks; interesting. Though the button should have been labelled
"all such folders" or something: just "Apply to Folders" is a bit odd.

I recalled that it does sort of say that, so I just checked.

The fine print above the button says "You can apply the view ... to all
folders of this type".

So the lawyers will argue that it's there

I never had that problem, but that's because I was used to that behavior
from earlier versions of Windows, so I never expected otherwise. But
obviously that's another lawyer's argument.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Ohhh, silly user, don't bother your little head about any of THAT. If
you have a problem, just go visit the "Genius Bar".

I thought that was a granola bar made up of recycled departed geniuses.

Oh, wait, that was Soylent Green.

Almost lost my lunch the 1st time I heard that term...

 

[Rob]

Well put. Particularly with the Internet & associated programs, how about "Stupidification in the pursuit of Incessant Crap Peddling". Same thing that happened with radio/TV. Incredible media of education/information basically reduced as much as possible to nothing but advertising.

Already happening with videos & streams - often 30 second adverts
before the actual content appears. This sort of thing will only get
worse now that companies think that the web actually belongs to
them and advertising/selling is what it is for.
Any other use is considered by them to be secondary and they will
probably try to ban non-commercial internet/web use at some point in
the future. :-/