folder view

Windows is being painful when viewing folders/files on my network hard drive. Brand new PC (and I have the same issue on my other Windws 7 PC too). Now that it is happening on two Windows 7 PCs it is time to get an answer. How do I get Windows to create thumbnails without doing it manually one...

Hi Is there a folder view option in Windows 7 explore as was the case with XP ?

Hi Everyone, I would be really grateful if anyone could suggest something to try and get thumbnail previews for mp4's back. I don't mean taskbar ones & am referring to the icons in folder views or on the desktop or anywhere. All other basic formats such as wmv, avi, mpg are displaying thumbs...

In a folder window, that has music files. You know how you can choose to see details of files in a folder? Well I was wondering if you could see their bitrates in the folder without having to right click each MP3 file to see their properties. I imagine it's something like "Content" (which...

So, if I access my files through C:/users/jjn/My Documents/whatever... I can see them and they are there, if I go through the library feature that 'says' it's looking in the same location some files are not there. How do you reset or refresh or rehydrate the library so it sees what IS actually...

In explorer, in the folder view on the left, it displays my user name, with a ton of files inside -I don't use it and would like for it not to display those folders there - can it be removed? When I right click on it and select delete I'm asked if i want to remove the "icon", I say yes, but...

Album Art Photoshop Action and Droplets As much as I like the "active" folder view, when it comes to the My Music folder I much prefer the old WinXP style flat album cover view. It's a man thing, how can you show off a CD? But years ago, carrying a 12" square carrier bag with your latest...

Making sure your icons are correctly sized QUESTION I can’t view folders properly on my Microsoft Windows Vista 64bit PC. I set the folders to show the view and icon size I wanted, then clicked 'Apply to Folders', ticked the 'Remember each folder's view settings' option and checked that 'Restore...

I am looking for a way to set all my folders (viewed with win. Explorer) to use one visual look. meaning: all use Details. all use the same columns (Name, Size, Type). all with the same column widths. It would be nice to set all current folders like this, and have any newly created folders to...

Is there a way to remove that toolbar from folder view in Windows 7? The toolbar immediately under the address bar. Screenshot:

Hi can anyone tell me what the little window is called on the left of the control panel? The one with the options inside it. It is sort of like the equivalent of the Folder viewer in windows explorer... Also my main question is how can this be customized? my reason for asking is that my version...

In WinXP I created a shortcut to WinExplorer with the following parameters: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,D:\tmp When I do this in Win7 then the dir is opened on the right side of WinExplorer but on the left side the directory tree remains unexpanded. How can I tell WinExplorer to...

I want all of my folders to open up in list view. I found the folder properties but the darn "apply to all folders" is greyed out. please help thank Nick

I just upgraded to Windows 7, and I don't like some of the UI upgrades. I would like to revert back the right click menu at the taskbar for the tabs to Vista. I can't close it like I used to. I don't like the fact that I have to move my mouse upwards quite a bit (compared to a slight nudge to...

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...

folder views will not stay to what i set them to, like on XP. whenever i go to "my documents" for example, and then change the view to details, and then go to photos and make that view thumbnails, and go back to docs, the docs are now in the same view as photos. it does this for all folders...

okay heres what i want: to veiw music stored on my external HD through wmp12 onto my 360, okay thats not to tough, but heres the catch... i want to veiw that music in the original folder veiw that i have set up on my HD. i read a rumor that the "play to" function may accomplish this...

Hi there. I have a strange problem that I've noticed two days ago. When I delete files or file, and it doesn't matter what kind of file, the files do get deleted, however, I still see them in the folder as if they are not deleted. I have to press F5 to refresh the folder in order to update the...

There are TONS TONS of ways to turn XP to Windows Vista or 7 but like most of XP users we "i" want to turn Vista or in this case W7 into XP. I want old sort by date back When saving files i want to be able to sellect desktop without having to co C:\Users\Name\Desktop (to long) faster my ass Dont...

hi all, i have a small problem which is driving me nuts and can't figure out or find a solution online so i thought i'd post here. when i view my folders in Explorer, i want each folder to have a different view. some in List mode, others as Medium Icons, etc. When i make a change to the view...