Comments on: Windows Vista Tip: 12 Hidden Windows Explorer Tricks

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:45:07 +0000

@Ibod Catooga: agree completely! a totally stupid amputation. is there a way to get it back?

By: AL

AL — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:37:02 +0000

There must have been something wrong with my VISTA, because every time I open a folder, and tries to open a subfolder or subfolders, it would open as many new windows as there are subfolders being opened, instead of having only one window for the main folder and its subfolders. As such, the Back- and Forward-Arrow buttons on the uppermost left corner of the window were disabled, as there would be no other folder/s to go back/forward to within the same window. I suspect that this must have been inadvertently caused by somebody in the office, while I was out. Please help… Thanks!

By: dave w

dave w — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:41:08 +0000

perhaps this short article will be of benefit to some.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2332394,00.asp

By: Suvigya

Suvigya — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:28:03 +0000

I guess I know all of them.

By: Atif

Atif — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:08:29 +0000

If you think these are hidden commands then you guys Don't have eyes ….Plan a visit to a nearby doctar

By: asdfad

asdfad — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:37:58 +0000

Shit! It don't replace the up directory button.

By: Marcianne Alves

Marcianne Alves — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:02:49 +0000

In MS Word, when I use the File, Open command, the file detail categories are shown as Album, Artist, etc. instead of document categories such as File Type, Modified, etc. Why? (I've made sure the folder properties are set to Documents in My Computer.) It seems to do this randomly…and it drives me crazy!

By: Lenny Grosso

Lenny Grosso — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:46:33 +0000

Hey – You guys are right on. The cure though is likely to be a better OS!
Why on earth did MS decimate the search feature in Vista?! It is inaccurate and unreliable rendering it useless. Plus, Google DT doesnt work in Vista64 version.
For more frustration with microsoft, you can get a downgrade if you want – but XP will not work on my 64 bit Laptop!
Hmmm where's Linux again?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:26:45 +0000

I get frustrated, too, Stephen! I googled that error and found that you just click on it. That forces more than 5,000 hits to come up in Vista.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:10:49 +0000

In some attempt to stabilize the view in explorer I've now got error/info messages (like the yellow ones in IE). "Seaches might be slow in non-indexed locations…." and "there are more results than will fit in this view. Narrow your results…."

How in God's green earth do I get rid of that. How do I get rid of the Grouping, I don't like it, I don't want it.

I get totally get angry over this crap.

Uncle Bill wants to eliminate Hurricanes. How about making explorer functional, easy to use instead?

I'd like to see a study on the mortality rates between MS OS users and Apple OS users. My guess is that the increased anger that MS users experiences shortens people lives.

By: Mandi

Mandi — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:51:46 +0000

"And there is just no rhyme or reason to Vista's selection of views. When you'd expect a thumbnail view, it gives you something else. When there are nothing but text or data type files in a folder, Vista gives you thumbnail view."

Agghh!! No matter how many times I try to "tell" explorer what view I want it to display in, it ALWAYS comes up with something that I don't want… the big issue for me is that by default I THINK mostly it will display Small Icons, which reads across rows … whereas I am used to viewing by List, which reads down the columns…

But then, often it will try to display one of my main Documents folders in Extra Large Icons, and takes forever to load!!!

Way too frustrating…

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:44:57 +0000

The Vista explorer to me is a total nuisance.
It is a reason to look for a replacement with some third party tool.
Maybe that the novice user has a better experience with it, as a power user I work mostly on shared directories and not in a my documents area.
Thus I hate the overly focused home directory with all the "my this" and "my that" stuff.
It seems to me that microsoft still sees the PC as a PERSONAL COMPUTER despite that they make the most money with companies.
I try to use an explorer shortcut which starts %windir%\explorer.exe /e,/root,desktop like I use it with XP but it not really satisfies my needs.

By: Costinel

Costinel — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:43:04 +0000

Dave, and all of you who are as angry as me for the inability to expand a folder the XP way, please speak up to Microsoft! I have commented on their "Connect" site and was given a negative response, but I'vee got an official reply. Please spread the word and make your comment there, even if the bug is old and closed! Let them know WE CARE!

You'll probably need a live id, but after you sign in you can comment:
https://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsServerFeedback/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=313066

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:25:24 +0000

I was also wondering if I could (in Explorer) copy files to another driver, but JUSt copy the files, not the directory structure, I am a DJ and I have like 50,000 mp3's in the directories that the ripper I used, put them in when I ripped them (the LP and Artists names), so out of 50k in files, I have well over 4000 directories, I want the files to go from 4000 directories into 6.. Explorer will do this one directory at a time, I just opened a DOS box and used XCopy to do it.. But I was wondering if Explorer has that capability.
Thx

By: Peter Riva

Peter Riva — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:40:02 +0000

I completely agree with you. EVERY damn day I have to reset the explorer to disply items in plain order. And every time I open explorer it is not in details view, it is not "all items" -0 it changes it o whatever it wants. Currently, the other joy is that Explorer and Explorer under Office 2007 do not cordinate at all and in Office 2007 there is no organize functionality. So what? Well, every time Iw ant to open or search for a document the Explorer window opens in image layout… why the hell should I give a damn when a picture was taken in Word when I'm trying to open or dave a docx? Incredible stupidity!