On 18 Aug 2005 at 5:04, Richard Yates wrote: > Wow! How long has that been there? . . .
It's always been there. The - on the keypad collapses a tree. I don't use these much in Explorer, but I do use them a lot in the Registry Editor (but most people don't have much call to use RegEdit). > . . . Could be very useful > although it doesn't do anything in Open and Save dbs. . . . Well, you do know that you can change view from your default view (which is likely to be filenames only) to the Details view, using the icons up in the upper right of the dialog (depending on whether or not the application programmer decided to include them). Also, for navigating the "Look In" dropdown, remember that F4 is the keyboard shortcut for dropping a dropdown list, and in the standard Windows File Open dialog, as long as the focus is not in another dropdown (such as the Files of Type dropdown), F4 is mapped to drop the Look In list. You can then navigate the Look In hierarchy with the keyboard, using ENTER to select a folder, then TAB to the list of files. I know that many people find this whole UI confusing, and I agree. But it is a significant improvement over the Win16 file open dialog. I'd like to see a redesign of the File dialog APIs to account for the fact that we now have larger screen resolutions. When the File dialog APIs we are now accustomed to were written, 640x480 was all you could count on, and thus the dialogs are sized to reflect that. This makes them way too small at modern resolutions. Somewhere along the line, they added the resizability triangle (lower right corner) as a standard feature, but this only partly solves the problem. > . . . Also, for some > reason, when I expand a directory this way I also have a 'Sign in with > Microsoft Passport Network box popup (???) I've never understood why so many people installed MSN Explorer. Seems to me that Microsoft was purposefully using deceptive practices by naming so many things with the "Explorer" moniker in order to confuse people into thinking that MSN Explorer was an upgrade to Internet Explorer (or Windows Explorer) instead the client for an online service. It's possible that's not the reason you're getting that popup, but it's the most common one I've run into. If you're not an MSN user, I see no reason to have MSN components installed, including MSN Messenger, which is actually rather tricky to get rid of (depending on the version involved). I wish there were something out there that would help a Windows user manage Explorer Shell add-ins. I see dozens of them listed in my Windows Registry, most of which I have no use for whatsoever, and I'd like to have some way to figure out what they are doing and who installed them. This is also one of chief vectors for spyware, installing as an Explorer Shell add-in, and is why many of them are so hard to get rid of. I just tried Googling to see if there are any tools for managing Shell extensions, but it's impossible to define a search that the doesn't just return thousands of Shell extensions. *sigh* -- 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
