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Stop Windows Retarded from changing folder columns?
Is there a way to stop Windows 7 from changing folder columns when
you happen to copy or move certain files into a folder? That IMO is one of the most annoying, frustrating, idiotic things Windows has ever done. Thanks. |
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Stop Windows Retarded from changing folder columns?
John Doe wrote, On 6/3/2014 4:18 PM:
Is there a way to stop Windows 7 from changing folder columns when you happen to copy or move certain files into a folder? That IMO is one of the most annoying, frustrating, idiotic things Windows has ever done. Thanks. Not seeing this. I copied and moved two different files from and into one folder into and from another folder and the columns for both source and destination folders remained the same. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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Stop Windows Retarded from changing folder columns?
On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 20:18:53 +0000 (UTC), John Doe wrote:
Is there a way to stop Windows 7 from changing folder columns when you happen to copy or move certain files into a folder? That IMO is one of the most annoying, frustrating, idiotic things Windows has ever done. Why don't you try another file manager? FreeCommander for example: http://www.freecommander.com/ I've been using the "old Version" (FreeCommander 2009.02b) for years now. -- s|b |
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Stop Windows Retarded from changing folder columns?
John Doe wrote in news:lmlajd$dq4$1@dont-
email.me: Is there a way to stop Windows 7 from changing folder columns when you happen to copy or move certain files into a folder? That IMO is one of the most annoying, frustrating, idiotic things Windows has ever done. Actually, that annoyance started with Vista. A quick search for "customize windows folder templates" should help you straighten it out. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16694...indows-folder- templates/ |
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Stop Windows Retarded from changing folder columns?
Mark Blain mblain2 yahoo.com wrote:
John Doe jdoe usenetlove.invalid wrote: Is there a way to stop Windows 7 from changing folder columns when you happen to copy or move certain files into a folder? That IMO is one of the most annoying, frustrating, idiotic things Windows has ever done. A quick search for "customize windows folder templates" should help you straighten it out. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16694...indows-folder- templates/ "To sort by a column, click once on that column. To reverse the sort-order, click that same column again" Wrong audience. That suggests it's going to take a massive amount of reading to find anything semi-technical. It's just a mess. The only way something like that could work for most of us is if we were allowed to save templates and then apply one of those templates to a particular folder on demand (not programmatically). Otherwise you have questions no Microsoft programmer can answer When to apply the template? Do you apply the template based on a folder name? Based on folder contents? What if I move files of a certain type into an empty folder, do you apply a template? If Microsoft wants to start a new installation by displaying various folders differently, that's okay, but applying templates programmatically just doesn't work. |
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Stop Windows Retarded from changing folder columns?
John Doe wrote in
: Wrong audience. That suggests it's going to take a massive amount of reading to find anything semi-technical. I have a different philosophy. I don't want or expect Explorer to display custom columns by opening the files in each folder. That just slows down my file mangement work. When I set up a new machine, I set ALL the folder templates to display the same standard standard columns. Effectively, that "turns off" this unwanted feature. I can get more details with right-click if I want them, or add a special column for one folder temporarily if I really need it. |
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Stop Windows Retarded from changing folder columns?
"Mark Blain" wrote in message ... John Doe wrote in : Wrong audience. That suggests it's going to take a massive amount of reading to find anything semi-technical. I have a different philosophy. I don't want or expect Explorer to display custom columns by opening the files in each folder. That just slows down my file mangement work. When I set up a new machine, I set ALL the folder templates to display the same standard standard columns. Effectively, that "turns off" this unwanted feature. I can get more details with right-click if I want them, or add a special column for one folder temporarily if I really need it. MS Explorer sucks. Get rid of it. Never use MS this and MS that... |
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Stop Windows Retarded from changing folder columns?
On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 13:58:03 -0700, John Doe wrote:
MS Explorer sucks. Get rid of it. Never use MS this and MS that... But Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 and MS Windows XP are ok? -- s|b |
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Stop Windows Retarded from changing folder columns?
"s|b" me privacy.invalid wrote:
John Doe wrote: MS Explorer sucks. Get rid of it. Never use MS this and MS that... But Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 and MS Windows XP are ok? |
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Stop Windows Retarded from changing folder columns?
On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 13:58:03 -0700, "John Doe"
wrote: "Mark Blain" wrote in message . .. John Doe wrote in : Wrong audience. That suggests it's going to take a massive amount of reading to find anything semi-technical. I have a different philosophy. I don't want or expect Explorer to display custom columns by opening the files in each folder. That just slows down my file mangement work. When I set up a new machine, I set ALL the folder templates to display the same standard standard columns. Effectively, that "turns off" this unwanted feature. I can get more details with right-click if I want them, or add a special column for one folder temporarily if I really need it. I've two folders assigned to the taskbar, the area directly next to the Start Menu, a discrete area next & between, to the taskbar's docking, i.e. for changing various temporary programs running and initiated... IOW - Such That the two folders are accessible At All Times. MS would possibly call that area, (wherein exist my two folders): the Quick Launch Area. Formalistically. Between the aforementioned two folders are maybe 50, 75 program shortcut entities I've assigned (sic) inside those two folders. I keep both folders - hence affiliated, though DOS folders, full of Windows' shortcuts - **off** of C drive, (where Windows best does its thing), and on another drive -- also formatted in FAT, FWIW. (A lot to me.) The shortcut arrangement (inside the folders) is everything Windows will (try and) prevent (subsequently by apparently, whimsically, rearranging the icons) -- apart from and negating any painstaking personal arrangements, I've defined, to said icons inside from Non-Standard Windows folder "columns" and definitions. Imagine, if at all possible, columns of programs running at angles , say, grouped according to a common function. The "geometric" aspects are your call: Run your programs from icons arranged to a maze, gigantic circles, as you wish. Indeed, as such, they're assignable to Microsoft, although understand that will be in some manner of unaccountability for reverting to up-&-down only columns. This is Microsofts' way of saying screw you. How **you** see program control is a part of the desktop interface to how **you** are apt to harness a computer (hotkeys, macros and scripts, you can't see -- as visual reinforcements of what you must first remember then to initiate). But, back to Microsoft screwing with you. In storing those folders another drive and making a binary backup of Windows (as an integral to making those folders), I stop any further rearrangements initiated by Microsoft Windows programmers. Cold. It's the best I've found to rid myself of that particular disease Microsoft is fond of propagating by rearranging my goddman folders into its goddamn idea of columns. The two programs folders never, ever again, get messed with by Windows (short of changing desktop resolutions from an initial resolution I setup the shortcut arrangement, or installing a different video driver/card). It wasn't easy to figure out, but I'd just about _Had lt_ with the Windows Scheme of Hell, as the topic suggests. So I addressed, took care of the matter to my own satisfaction. Yes, very good and problem solved. Forever and ever. (Please do remember, though -- take a JPG snapshot of any such folders, I'm using, in case you're building from scratch, or somesuch contingency is encountered -- It's the first principle, even before Micorsoft, to operating any Digitally Revolutionized Computer: that is, to cover your ass from a stench when **** happens.) |
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