On 17 Aug 2005 at 6:46, Phil Daley wrote: > At 8/16/2005 05:19 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >When I got my first Win95 PC, I was very disappointed with Windows > >Explorer in the beginning and tried using File Manager for a while, > >but once I started accumulating long file names, it became > impossible >to use. I eventually got used to the single hierarchy for > your entire >computer (even though I still think it's conceptually > wrong, and the >wrongness has been vastly increased in later versions > of Windows >Explorer). > > What do you mean by "single hierarchy". > > If you right click "My Computer" and choose Open, you get a single > pane that is useless. Is that what you mean?
No. My Computer is an Explorer view without the Folder Pane. You can make it look like what you get when you run Explorer.exe by going to the View menu and choosing to display the Folder Pane (under the poorly-named Explorer Bar menu choice). I mean what you get when you open Windows Explorer, as it is given on the Start Menu of every version of Windows since Win95, and what you get when you launch Explorer.exe and what you get when you hit Windows Key-E. That is, the standard Windows Explorer view. > I always use Explore (and set that as the default) so that you get 2 > panes, one with drives and directories and the other with files. > > Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you want. Yes, as usual, you're misunderstanding. But what you've identified is, in fact, the view that is problematic. In the Folder pane at the left, lots of things that aren't really alike are placed in a single hierarchy. And it's confusing and hard for most people to use. And it's been made much worse in later versions of Windows, which make it harder still to navigate to your hard drives. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
