file organization

Link Removed every time when i go to any folder, weather its external usb or hard drive or phone or just folder in partition, when i want to see the files by "date modified" i never have it in the right click - "sort by" term. how can i apply it to all folders and have it all the time im...

In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how you can Tag your files in Windows 7 using tools built into Windows Explorer. Link Removed

Learn how to create and customize libraries in Windows 7. Libraries help you keep your files organized and accessible across multiple folders, computers and networks. Link Removed

Can't locate your files? Missing that important photo? Come learn about Windows 7 libraries which help you organize your files, music and photos - never misplace another file! Link Removed

before you reinstall w7 files in folders can be moved example files beginning with the letter A, which is the top of the folder can be moved at the bottom closing and opening the folder remains the all clear but now sit as "glued" from where they waved box to be able to move

In old windows, when you renamed a photo, it stayed in the same place in relation to all the other photos in the folder until you closed and then reopened the folder. Now in 7 and vista, as soon as you rename it, it gets reordered in the folder by name. It jumps away from its current position...

First off I like to say I like this forum so Im posting here.:D I am having a problem with my network places being over crowd on winows 7, Vista, an XP machines. I woul like to get ri of all the broken an duplicate folders. Heres the story, I have a media server in one room. Over the years...

Hi, this is my first post. I just a new user of windows 7, and I was really happy with the search engine of it, until today. Here the history: first i copied my files from the old pc and pass to this new pc (windows 7), after copy the files to a folder I organize all the files on others...

Hi, Im a bit of a newbie on this forum, and an IT Admin at that (shock horror!) So, i dont spend too much time worrying about desktops. What i would like to know from the Win7 boffins is: Can Windows 7 users configure\make use of the new MS Server 2008 R2 feature File Classification...

So whenever I create a folder anywhere inside the Program Files sub-folders, it automatically becomes a locked folder, this is annoying on a few different levels, but mainly because I can't figure out how to tell it to be a regular, not-locked folder. Another problem I'm having is that one of my...

I have a 2 TB hard drive with over 1000 movies, with a folder for each movie, as each movie consists of one or more files, along with a jpg file with the movie cover. Currently the title of each folder contains the movie title, the year of release, imdb rating and some other info. Now I...

I'll try and explain what I mean. I have one folder which has 300 sub folders. In about half of those, there are also sub-folders, all called post-pro. So, there are about 150 folders called post-pro with files in. What I'd like to do is have files in each of the sub-folders called post-pro...

My documents are all in a partition (labelled) "Terry" reserved for, well, my documents. They're in a folder called "My Documents". But in My Computer there is a "Terry" item too. Which relates to my log-in and is in the users folder of C: And that one also contains a "My Documents" folder. (My...

When I open Windows Explorer with a list of say, music files in a folder, the column that holds the file names is maybe 2 inches wide, so I have to move the bar at the top in order t see the whole name. Double clicking the gap at the edge of the column auto-expands the column to show the widest...

My system drive is 63GB - yes GB... All that's on there is Windows 7 64-bit, and my applications. Data is elsewhere, cache files are elsewhere..... At this moment there's 420KB free on the drive... So, I started looking for what honking big bunch of garbage is eating this thing. Searching...

This seems really simple, and makes me feel pretty stupid, but I want to search for folders with a certain name without getting all the contents of the folders in the search results. I've tried just entering the folder name, I've tried the 'foldername:' property, I've tried using the...

Hi all, I hope you can help me with a little problem. For some reason, when I go open 'Music' in libraries, it doesn't show all files together, instead it lists the location so it appears like: My Music (1) C:\users\me Playlists Public Music (2) C:\users\public Museeqa 3arabiya Sample...

I have just upgraded from Vista to 7. That went well. Before I performed the upgrade I carried out a backup to a second HDD for the first time. I have just gone to search the back up and have dicscovered it is in 149 seperate files and one global catalogue. Apart from going through every file...

Hello, I recently upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista on my PC. I have all my media files on a WD external HD. The problem I am having with media player is in the libraries.. When clicking "organize" then "manage libraries" and then "music" it just disappears and does nothing. If I follow the same...

Cannot "CTRL+V paste" into selected window if nothing is selected in that window. But i have more This is now i thought Windows 7 would be like. Wonder if we could post a request to MS to get it this way or somewhat give us more working space and remove some of the annoying features...