thanks steve
yeah, i figured out the explorer settings stuff some time ago
but as you concluded those settings do no apply to File Open
what a mess MS made of this vital function !
AFAIK this cannot be set, i guess i was hoping i was wrong or for some
registry tweak or something like like
i do have FileBox Extender which is not bad, but i was looking for
something internal to windows
FileBox Extender:
http://www.hyperionics.com/
it doesn't work with every single program but it is useful
(autocad is the main exception i recall)
i used to use File-Ex (the Cottonwood link you mention) but stopped
using it (can't remember why)
i regularly move about between 6 machines here and getting them all
configured properly with all this junk is a pain, esp when one seems to
go south in a regular rotation so there is almost always an unpleasant
task at hand
also the more background utility programs running the worse things
usually get
ds
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windows question:
i think maybe i asked this before (i don't keep all these), sorry if so
but here it is again
is there a way in WIN2K and/or XP to make the standard windows File Open
dialog default to 'DETAILS'
it drives me nuts to have to set this every time
Me too - and surely others as well. I'm quite surprised to find this msg this
morning and that no one has answered all night. I run Win2K, but I've also
done this on XP. Open a regular Windows Explorer directory window of any
directory on the drive (My Computer - C drive, for instance). <View> <Details>. Now
set up the columns as you want them (I often want to view directories sorted by
modified time, most recent first, for instance). Now do <Tools> <Folder
Options> and select the View tab. While you're here, check the various settings -
especially, turn off "Hide file extensions for known file types". That's a
method for virus / spyware writers to slide things past you. Now at the top of the
window, under Folder Views, click "Like Crrent Folder". Presto, the job's
done. Just be sure you've got the Details setting and anything else you want to
mak common, first. It took me several rounds to get it all just right.
Now, if I could just do that for the File Open dialog boxes within Word,
Protel, etc., honor those settings. Hmmm.... re-reading your original question,
I'm not so sure that that wasn't what you were asking for, too. If that's what
you're looking for, I'd sure like to hear the answer, because I haven't been
able to find it either.
Steve Hendrix
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