Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:45:05 +0200 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] PS/2 mouse conflict w/W98SE & Winamp 5.xx
Matt Hanson wrote: > > Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:25:29 -0700 (PDT) > From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] PS/2 mouse conflict w/W98SE & Winamp 5.xx > > --- Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <mouse troubles snipped> > > > Another pet peeve I have with Windows is I can > > never > > > right-click on "My Documents" in Windows Explorer > > and > > > select "Find" to search recursively. MS in its > > > infinite wisdom disabled the 'Find' option just on > > > that one folder. Anyone ever notice that, or > > solve > > > the problem? > > > > I experienced similar things. E.g., from the File > > menu, if I moved the > > mouse pointer on New -> Folder the menu would > > disappear. I could only > > make new folders by typing an "F". > > FYI, a complete Windows reinstall fixed the > > problem....... > > What I'm talking about seems to be the way Win98 > operates out of the box. When I search for files in > Windows Explorer, I browse to the folder I want to > search recursively, right click on the folder, and > select 'Find'. However you'll notice that the 'My > Documents' icon is different, showing paper poking out > of the yellow folder. And if you right click on it, > there's no 'Find' menu option. > > That sucks since that's where I put most all of my own > files. I end up clicking another folder, and then > browsing in the 'Find' window to 'My Documents'. > > Looking through the rest of the folders in C:\Windows, > I see the same thing for all folders that have special > icons: > > C:\Windows\Downloaded Program Files > C:\Windows\Favorites (another folder I often search) > C:\Windows\History > C:\Windows\Offline Web Pages > C:\Windows\Tasks > > The 'Find' menu item won't appear on any of these > folders when right clicked. There's got to be a hack > for this somewhere. Well, a Google for: "Windows 98 right click Find My Documents" turned up as 4th hit: http://www.mvps.org/serenitymacros/mydocs.html (this site works only with Internet Explorer BTW). Right, you need to do some registry hacking but it *is* possible. Philip
