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How did they expect people to drag and drop a new folder without adding it to an existing one? No one can tell me they weren't going out of their way to make this as bad as possible. "List" is the only view that doesn't have these god damn rectangles, but then it's just one big side scrolling mess... not that any view is worth an ounce of crap. What a terrible pile of garbage.
ps. Not being able to group folders by letters just pisses me off every single time I have to look at this sh!t.
How did they expect people to drag and drop a new folder without adding it to an existing one?
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Here's a shot from an XP computer. You'll notice the ease in which I add the new folder in the upper right? See how nicely they're organized and how easy it is to find a folder when they're sorted alphabetically? That's what I want. What do people with a lot of folders do, that's what I want to know. Anyone out there with 600 or so folder? How do you manage them? Thanks for your help, but you're damn right there's a lot of rage. Win 7 was designed solely for people who are wowed but bright colors and neat-o effects. It was made to appeal to the Facebookers and people who are drawn to shiny things. It was not meant to be productive in any way. It's as bad at everything as they could have made it. I take that back... they did make it 3x harder to do nothing in 8, so congrats to them I guess. As far as the Details view, then I would be stuck with a single column that would take forever to get to the bottom of... and A-H, look at the first picture... that's barely in the D's... that's what A-H would look like. It's useless. What's the point of those f!@#$%g blue rectangles in the first place? They accomplish nothing, except for preventing me from accomplishing anything.
It's useless. What's the point of those f!@#$%g blue rectangles in the first place?
Or make a folder for each letter of the alphabet.
Holy crap! You're a friggin' genius, my friend!
Just had a hard time keeping track myself. But since your post I been experimenting with the 4 different right click menu option. "arrange by, view, sort by and group by". I can get it to like that XP screenshot you had earlier post. Many different options thanks for that!
Actually I was hoping someone with lots of folders would tell me how they manage them. Didn't we go over this also? All you said was you have a ridiculous number of folders, but didn't tell me how you sort them.
That link only confirms what I said. There's no good way to manage folders in Win 7. Go back and look at the XP shot, then look at the Win 7 shot... which one do you prefer?
Windows 7. But now I prefer Windows 8 now that it's out. Nothing you said confirms anything however, because it's all based on your fixed opinion about Windows 7. I haven't seen anybody else complain as much as you to be honest, so that must show something...
That kind of attitude isn't going to get you far though, so I can't help you.
If you can't deal with not having headers for every letter, then god help you. I can sort by name alphabetically, click anywhere in that folder, and hit the key for the letter that I want to navigate to, and it does the trick just fine.
I've used Windows since before Win95 and I would have to say that I have managed to work with all of the explorer's without much hassle. Obviously it was more limited back then, but it's only improved upon the last for every Windows release. Performance-wise things got faster too. My XP machine can't handle this many folders almost, and the hardware in that tower is just fine.
If you right click inside of the folder, "Group By", then choose "More", maybe you'll find something that you like by selecting which group by options you have in that listbox?
Otherwise, you can create a batch script that would organize your folders into each folder letter as a category if you are going that way...
Hold on a second... did you say you CAN make 7 sort like XP? For the love of humanity... tell me how you did it! What options did you use?
Yeah, whatever, great... you don't count anymore.
the only difference I see so far is it grouped A-H, I-P
I wasn't going to reply to this, but what the hell. You said you "manage about nearly 20 000 folders just fine" so I said post a screen shot. Unless you have another 19,975 folders after the M's, you're lying. That shows total "Items", not "Folders". What did you do, go into your Programs folder and click properties and think I wouldn't notice?