file organization

Hi I'm really confused about what I should do. I recently wiped my HDD after getting a new box, installed XP then W7RC. When installing XP, I made 2 Partitions, C:/ and D:/. The C:/ drive was ~100 GB on which I installed the OS, and the D:/ Drive was ~130 GB. What I then did was copy the...

In XP and Vista it was possible to change the sorting order for numbers in file and folder names, by defining NoStrCmpLogical=1 in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer (ref Link Removed) When I do this in Windows 7 RC (64 bits) nothing happens. Do you...

Hi all, Win7100 64 installed and occasionally enjoying it so far. My Problem: I inserted a typical client-provided Data CD with 1,025 CAD files spread over 203 nested folders (a manufacturer's product library). Typical file/product name something like REQY250-BC1E where REYQ is one of dozens of...

Hi all. The library concept is a great idea in theory -- and if you only have one non networked computer then this post does not apply. The idea is (finally for a Windows OS) of course to organise data by CONTENT rather than worry about the Physical location of it. A typical example these...

I've been a big user of Windows Media Center since around 2003. As the music section of Media Center is linked to the Media Player library, I have always used wmp to organise my files. In past versions of media player, unless an album was "found", wmp would organise the file unpredictably. I...

What partitions do you have what size and why??? i have 3 on a 320gb hdd 1 at 50gb (win 7) 1 at 25 (xp) and the rest with all my stuff on there pics films anything to be kept safe.

hi, I just noticed something odd: When I save a specific folder view for a folder (for example to show thumbnails for the files inside) windows saves that view. That isn't odd (of course), the odd thing is that when I visit that folder another way than last time, windows saves a seperate view...

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Hi Guys, Have a question I could do with an answer to please! All my albums are in different folders in my music folder... The Columns as your are aware can have different rows eg track number, title, year, rating date added Etc. I want all my folders to open up displaying the same info...