file sorting

Does anyone know how do I set the default program to open media files in Windows 7? On WinXP it was right click -> open with -> checkmark "set as default program for opening this type of file" -> double click program. I did the same thing on Windows 7 and it has absolutely no effect. I do NOT...

Hey guys! As you see this is my first post. I want to make some "show desktop shortcut" on the taskbar, and when i click on it, it must to react same as when i press Win+M hotkey when i save this as show.scf it is react just like Win+D hotkey. But i want to create win+M hotkey's shortcut. if...

Greetings! I just upgraded from WinXP to Windows 7. I have a folder with a lot of files that have either plus or minus/dashes ("-") in the file name, sometimes more than one. For example, some filenames might be: Matterhorn +++.wmv Space Mountain ++-.avi Star Tours +.mp3 Star Tours (second...

Hello , I hope I would get some help to my problem that is bothering me from a long time. I was using win xp before and i liked the feature show in groups when sorted alphabetically. It used to look like this groping for every single alphabet separately. But now in win 7 when ever i do this it...

Vista allowed the contents of a window to be sorted by name, date modified, etc in any view -- but it appears Windows 7 drops that menu bar for all views other than "details" view. I can right-click within the box to sort, but it's very inefficient. Any way to retain that detail bar in all...

Hi, I bough Win7 two days ago (Or was it three) Anyway I spend a lot of time sorting through pictures on my HDD and one thing I loved about Vista was the "Sort By" bar. You could sort files A-Z or Z-A by tags, by specific tags, by 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 stars, 5-1 rating, 1-5 rating you name it. So...

When I first installed Windows 7, I found (as per Vista) that when a file was dropped into a folder, it was immediately ordered alphabetically. For some reason this has stopped working and the file simply drops to the bottom of the list in each folder. Can anyone tell me why this is so and what...

I posted this in the General section, but it seems the techies don't visit there! I'm using the 32 bit version of W7 and one thing I really can't stand (or figure out how to turn off) is the auto sorting of my files. I want to be able to move them around - within a certain folder - without...