Okay, let me look in my folder of all kinds of instructions that a
friend of mine gave me.
I also have one for Windows Seven.
If I can find the documents, I'll paste them in an email, as it's a
real annoyance.
Thanks much.
Many Blessings,
Pat Ferguson
"I can Do all Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me." Phillippians 4:13.
At 04:26 PM 4/25/2014, you wrote:
Hey, can you find out how you stopped the refreshing? and let all of us know?
thanks.
On 4/25/2014 3:38 PM, Pat Ferguson wrote:
Hi Robin and Everyone,
Another thing that I had to do with Win 7 is to make the folders so
the file structure wouldn't keep refreshing within a folder. Oh how
I hated that, and I have some friends who are still having trouble with that.
I did something in the folders right from the C drive, and I can't
remember what it was, but until I did that Windows 7 was a mess for
me, and I know I can do it again, if I have to. <smile> Just got to
figure it out, that's all. <smile>
I'm loving Windows 7 and Window-Eyes.
Thanks much.
Many Blessings,
Pat Ferguson
"I can Do all Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me." Phillippians 4:13.
At 01:52 PM 4/25/2014, you wrote:
Thanks, Pat. That does makes sense. I just did in on the Win7
machine at work. I didn't realize that I was on small icons, not list view.
From: Pat Ferguson [ mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 12:10 PM
To: Van Lant, Robin
Cc: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Subject: RE: Understanding the file management dialog boxes in Win
7 and Win 8.1
Hi Robin,
You can set that to list view which I think is much easier.
I think you do an alt-V and arrow down to list view and then hit enter.
I can't stand tree views, but that's just my personal opinion. <smile>
I have my C drive set up so that Windows explorer shows only one
layer at a time, and if I have sub folders in a folder, it will
only open them up when I go into a folder. <smile>
Thanks much.
Many Blessings,
Pat Ferguson
"I can Do all Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me." Phillippians 4:13.
At 11:20 AM 4/25/2014, you wrote:
Very helpful, Marc, especially about the address bar function.
I'll have to check again which view I am using. I noticed last
night that the layout in the listview area was unique, so I wonder
if I have some grouping function enabled. There were two columns,
upper left said Documents, and arrowing arrowing down said
Pictures, music, etc. I figured I was just in a straight listview
for my personal files. But then I realized that there was another
column to the right that started off with something like drives
and devices. And arrowing down from that listed the DVD drive and
the USB hard drive I had just plugged in. Here I was expecting to
have to hit enter on the Drives & devices folder to get to my USB
hard drive, but instead it was listed below the label within that
tree view. That's definitely not how I've seen things in previous
Windows versions, but now that I see the pattern, it made sense.
From: Marc Solomon [ mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 6:51 AM
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Subject: Understanding the file management dialog boxes in Win 7
and Win 8.1
Hi Robin,
While the Open and Save dialogs in Windows 8.1 have more pieces
and parts when compared to their counterparts in earlier versions
of Windows, the good news is that you can still do things in the
same way once you get the hang of it and make a few
adjustments. The first tip I want to pass along is how to access
and use the address bar. You mentioned a pull down that you used
to use, this combo box has been replaced by the address bar. The
shortcut to access the address bar is Alt-D just like it is in
Internet Explorer and other web browsers. The address bar
supports both auto completion and suggestion lists. So, if you
want to save a file or open a file from your Documents library or
your Desktop, just go to the address bar and type the location
followed by Enter. You can also type in full file or folder paths
if you are a bit more old school and know the exact location of
what you are looking for. If you are lazy like me, I stop typing
the location after I hear Window-Eyes announce the suggestion list
and just arrow to the correct location and press Enter. This
allows me to select locations with 3 or 4 key presses. You can
also press Alt-Down to drop down the address edit combo box to
review a list of its history. Overall, I have found that the
address bar can really make you more efficient once you learn how to use it.
Keep in mind that the address bar is just one way of selecting a
location. As you mentioned, you can also use the tree view in the
navigation pane if that is easier for you. The tree view gives
you not only your standard files and folders but also favorites
and libraries which can be customized to include the folders you use most.
If you are in the oldest of the old school, you have memorized all
files paths and important folder paths from your days of using DOS
and just simply use the File Name edit combo box to type in the
full path of the file you want to open or the location and name
for the file you want to save.
Pressing Backspace while in the files and folders list box for the
selected location still moves you back in the hierarchy in the
current file path. One difference that I notice is that once you
reach the lowest level of the file path, for example, the root of
C, pressing backspace again takes you to Computer and pressing
Backspace again takes you to the Desktop. This is my experience
in Windows 8.1.
One other tip is to set the files and folder list box view to
either list or details and make sure grouping is turned
off. Disabling the Library Pane and Preview Pane can also
simplify the dialog's user interface.
I hope you find this information helpful.
Regards,
Marc
From: "Van Lant, Robin"
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:43:10 +0000
I recently moved to Windows 7 and work and Windows 8.1 at home. I
had been on Windows XP in both places before that. I was very
accustomed to how to navigate through the Windows Explorer, Open
and Save dialog boxes in XP, but I'm struggling with how things
are organized and the interface with the buttons across the top of
the dialogs in Win 7 and Win 8.1. Can someone recommend a good
summary of how best to navigate? I'm using WE 8.4.
I first thought that it was best to 'declutter the screen by
getting rid of the navigation pane, but I just added that back,
realizing that there doesn't seem to be the look in drop down box
at the top of the dialog any more.
In the navigation pane, I'm not clear when I should go to
libraries, Favorites, etc.. There also is something called a
Name split button, so a single shift Tab doesn't' seem to take me
right into the file list view anymore, rather I have to do it
twice. The other day I was trying to get to my booksense to
transfer files and I really bumbled along to find that in Windows
8..1. At work, we have network drives and I feel like I can't
get to them nearly as easily as I could in XP. I used to be able
to backspace while in the file list and it would move be backward
through eh file structure. Now it seems that I can do that maybe
once, but then it jumps be back to the level I was on. Believe
me, I am creating desktop shortcuts to folders I use most
commonly, but at work there are too many places I need to go,
sometimes just once.
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