Comments on: Vista UI Rant: Windows Explorer Folder Views

By: JimBo

JimBo — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:02:21 +0000

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!

I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this ever since I was cursed with Vista eight or nine months ago.

By: ændrük

ændrük — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:43:28 +0000

Thanks for the helpful post, this would have driven me crazy. Interesting to see the developing thought process – I like that.

By: user

user — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:40:38 +0000

In the Details view, right click the column headers and select “more”. All of the available columns are there, just as they’ve always been. I’m sure they’ll break that next. Of course, turn off “remember each folder’s view settings”, so it doesn’t annoyingly change things around every time you open a new folder, but that’s been around forever.

Now, if I can only get rid of the stupid organize/views thing…

By: Søren Nielsen

Søren Nielsen — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:51:35 +0000

I agree to all of it!

Why oh why did they mangle the most important functionality in windows (working with files) to show off that you can now tag and rate your pictures/movies?

Who does that anyway? 1 in a hundred? for how many folders? 1 in a hundred?

Wesley: Thank you that link worked perfectly for me. Now my folders are just the way I like them. Always.

:-)

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By: Daniel Friedman

Daniel Friedman — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:26:05 +0000

As a busy writer publisher online, I too have been bummed by Vista – the bottom line is that the system is CONSTANTLY in my way, making WRONG second guesses, preventing me from moving files, saving data, seeing data, and basically, doing what I need to get my work done. It’s the obesity and impossible complexity that come from trying to make one program do everything for everyone (even though most users don’t want much of the “everything”, combined with the arrogance that comes from the power of monopoly.

By: Will

Will — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:01:40 +0000

“Personally I think that if there are many different types of items in a folder that it would make sense to use the more general “All Items” view”

You’re so right. This behavious infuriates me. I’m going to check that link from Wesley now and see if you can really turn it off.

It pisses me off the Microsoft just make all these UI changes with seemingly no regard to what their customers want.

By: Jared Goralnick

Jared Goralnick — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:55:50 +0000

Thanks for the thoughts, AppStar. Unfortunately for Microsoft, just because something exists or has existed doesn’t make it intuitive, consistent, or well-designed.

By: AppStar

AppStar — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:09:41 +0000

Why wouldn’t you just go to “Customize This Folder…” in the first place? It’s been that way in XP for years.

By: Kev

Kev — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:22:49 +0000

You dare to show file extensions!

Microsoft have been trying to hide those from us for years now.