"David Wells" <nospan@nospam.com> wrote in message
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You got through OK.

A very welcome group and I hope posters on here can comment upon technical
issues e.g. stability, whether the bugs and irritating bits of bad design in
Vista have been carried across to 7.

All the PC mag reviewers and an M$ salesman I encountered in a PC World
store on 7's UK launch day seem to be interested in is extolling the new
desktop graphics gimmicks which don't interest me one bit, and are not
interested in answering queries such as have we got Right Click 'N' back for
new folders, text docs etc. and has the idiot who thought of changing it to
'W' been strung up by his gooleys yet, and will we still have to tolerate
numerous other irritations such as folders with one object in them taking up
a whole quarter of the screen and taking ages to learn your preferred size
and location, and everything swooping off to the left and sometimes
disappearing when you try to rename an object in a folder several columns of
items when only one column is visible!

Sorry to start the new group off with a rant but give it time and I think
there'll be many more - especially if 7 turns out contain such bugs and
irritations.

Nemo.

"nemo" <nemo@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
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> have we got Right Click 'N' back for new folders, text docs etc. and has
> the idiot who thought of changing it to 'W' been strung up by his gooleys
> yet,

Eh? Right-click "N"???????

"nemo" <nemo@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message news:v5pIm.43041$%%3.4414@newsfe23.ams2...
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> "David Wells" <nospan@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>> As no message yet want make sure can post
>
> You got through OK.
>
> A very welcome group and I hope posters on here can comment upon technical
> issues e.g. stability, whether the bugs and irritating bits of bad design in
> Vista have been carried across to 7.
>
> All the PC mag reviewers and an M$ salesman I encountered in a PC World
> store on 7's UK launch day seem to be interested in is extolling the new
> desktop graphics gimmicks which don't interest me one bit, and are not
> interested in answering queries such as have we got Right Click 'N' back for
> new folders, text docs etc. and has the idiot who thought of changing it to
> 'W' been strung up by his gooleys yet, and will we still have to tolerate
> numerous other irritations such as folders with one object in them taking up
> a whole quarter of the screen and taking ages to learn your preferred size
> and location, and everything swooping off to the left and sometimes
> disappearing when you try to rename an object in a folder several columns of
> items when only one column is visible!
>
> Sorry to start the new group off with a rant but give it time and I think
> there'll be many more - especially if 7 turns out contain such bugs and
> irritations.
>
> Nemo.
>

I don't know what you mean by right-click 'N' or 'W'.
For me the folders on the Desktop are hopeless. I used to like having several folders
on the Desktop containing shortcuts and documents etc. In Win 311 or Win98 or XP
you could do that, and have each folder open where you wanted and how big you wanted.
I can't seem to get anything like that in Win7.
Every time I open a folder it opens where the last folder opened, and opens at the size
of the last folder.
I've tried third-party desktop apps but they just add unnecessary complications.
Hopefully somebody will tell me I'm missing something :-(

Hi there

<snip>


> For me the folders on the Desktop are hopeless. I used to like having
> several folders
> on the Desktop containing shortcuts and documents etc. In Win 311 or Win98
> or XP
> you could do that, and have each folder open where you wanted and how big
> you wanted.
> I can't seem to get anything like that in Win7. Every time I open a folder
> it opens where the last folder opened, and opens at the size
> of the last folder.
> I've tried third-party desktop apps but they just add unnecessary
> complications.
> Hopefully somebody will tell me I'm missing something :-(
>

You have selected in control panel 'open each folder in its own window'?

"Trevor" <nothanks@nothereatall.com> wrote in message news:7lfmbsF3d6lrdU1@mid.individual.net...
> Hi there
>
> <snip>
>
>
>> For me the folders on the Desktop are hopeless. I used to like having
>> several folders
>> on the Desktop containing shortcuts and documents etc. In Win 311 or Win98
>> or XP
>> you could do that, and have each folder open where you wanted and how big
>> you wanted.
>> I can't seem to get anything like that in Win7. Every time I open a folder
>> it opens where the last folder opened, and opens at the size
>> of the last folder.
>> I've tried third-party desktop apps but they just add unnecessary
>> complications.
>> Hopefully somebody will tell me I'm missing something :-(
>>
>
> You have selected in control panel 'open each folder in its own window'?
>
>
>
>

I assume you mean the setting under Folder Options, yes I have. That just allows you
to have multiple folders open instead of having the same folder open each time.
Are you saying that your folders remember their individual settings ?

"Dave-UK" <Here@home> wrote in message
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>
> "Trevor" <nothanks@nothereatall.com> wrote in message
> news:7lfmbsF3d6lrdU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Hi there
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>
>>> For me the folders on the Desktop are hopeless. I used to like having
>>> several folders
>>> on the Desktop containing shortcuts and documents etc. In Win 311 or
>>> Win98 or XP
>>> you could do that, and have each folder open where you wanted and how
>>> big you wanted.
>>> I can't seem to get anything like that in Win7. Every time I open a
>>> folder it opens where the last folder opened, and opens at the size
>>> of the last folder.
>>> I've tried third-party desktop apps but they just add unnecessary
>>> complications.
>>> Hopefully somebody will tell me I'm missing something :-(
>>>
>>
>> You have selected in control panel 'open each folder in its own window'?
>>
>>
>
> I assume you mean the setting under Folder Options, yes I have. That just
> allows you
> to have multiple folders open instead of having the same folder open each
> time.
> Are you saying that your folders remember their individual settings ?
>

I tried it with 2 different desktop folders just to see what happened. I
opened folder A and resized it to the lower-right quadrant of my screen.
Leaving it open, I opened folder B and it was the same size and location as
folder A was when I originally opened it before resizing and moving it. I
then resized and moved B to the upper-left quadrant. I closed both folders,
and when I reopened A, it went to the LR where it was when I closed it. I
then opened B and it went to the UL where it was when I closed it. So it
seemed that it did remember the size and position that it was when I closed
them.
I closed both folders, then opened B first. It went to where A was in the
LR. Then I opened A, and it went to the UL where B was originally. So it
seems that it doesn't save the positions of a *particular* folder, but
rather the sizes and positions in the *sequence* in which any folders are
opened.
I don't normally have any folders on my desktop, but I had to try this just
to see what would happen.

SC Tom

"Gordon" <gordonbparker******.com> wrote in message
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> "nemo" <nemo@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
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>
>> have we got Right Click 'N' back for new folders, text docs etc. and has
>> the idiot who thought of changing it to 'W' been strung up by his gooleys
>> yet,
>
> Eh? Right-click "N"???????
>

[Wearily . . ] Yesss. In Win95 and 98, new folder was Right Click 'N' > 'F'.
A new text file was Right Click 'N' > 'T' and so on.

I went straight from 98 to XP. I think it was still 'N' in XP and was
changed in Vista. Right Click 'W' seems to me to be a piece of sheer
bloody-minded illogical and deliberate irritation, as do many of the other
changes and bugs, so I had hoped that they might have restored 'N' this in
7.

I've just about saved up enough for an iMac - the nice large one. I'm sorely
tempted . . . .


Nemo

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> "nemo" <nemo@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
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>> "David Wells" <nospan@nospam.com> wrote in message
>> news:o804f59j4mhiiq3fhp8acpnqt437i1rm1k@4ax.com...
>>> As no message yet want make sure can post
>>
>> You got through OK.
>>
>> A very welcome group and I hope posters on here can comment upon
>> technical issues e.g. stability, whether the bugs and irritating bits of
>> bad design in Vista have been carried across to 7.
>>
>> All the PC mag reviewers and an M$ salesman I encountered in a PC World
>> store on 7's UK launch day seem to be interested in is extolling the new
>> desktop graphics gimmicks which don't interest me one bit, and are not
>> interested in answering queries such as have we got Right Click 'N' back
>> for new folders, text docs etc. and has the idiot who thought of changing
>> it to 'W' been strung up by his gooleys yet, and will we still have to
>> tolerate numerous other irritations such as folders with one object in
>> them taking up a whole quarter of the screen and taking ages to learn
>> your preferred size and location, and everything swooping off to the left
>> and sometimes disappearing when you try to rename an object in a folder
>> several columns of items when only one column is visible!
>>
>> Sorry to start the new group off with a rant but give it time and I think
>> there'll be many more - especially if 7 turns out contain such bugs and
>> irritations.
>>
>> Nemo.
>
> I don't know what you mean by right-click 'N' or 'W'.

See above. It was 'N' in 95 and 98.

> For me the folders on the Desktop are hopeless. I used to like having
> several folders
> on the Desktop containing shortcuts and documents etc. In Win 311 or Win98
> or XP
> you could do that, and have each folder open where you wanted and how big
> you wanted.
> I can't seem to get anything like that in Win7. Every time I open a folder
> it opens where the last folder opened, and opens at the size
> of the last folder.
> I've tried third-party desktop apps but they just add unnecessary
> complications.
> Hopefully somebody will tell me I'm missing something :-(
>

In that case, no wonder the salesman wouldn't comment when I put this to him
and changed the subject! Dishonest sod! This was in the Tottenham Court Road
branch of PC World just opposite Warren Street which used to be wall-to-wall
used car dealers - with similar shifty spiv salesmen as this bloke. How
appropriate.

Unless you only get relocatable and resizeable folders in Classic Windows
veiw. The first mag article I read said this had been abolished in 7 but the
latest article says it hasn't!! That's what I'm using now in Vista and it's
reasonably OK except it does have a mind of its own.

After just these few messages, as far as my preferences and requirements are
concerned, M$ seems to have shot itself in the foot yet again. How they
could do this after all the consultation they've done, I've no idea.

That iMac is starting to look better all the time.

"nemo" <nemo@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message news:gd8Jm.49248$1i2.45784@newsfe07.ams2...
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> "Gordon" <gordonbparker******.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> "nemo" <nemo@naughtylass.wet> wrote in message
>> news:v5pIm.43041$%%3.4414@newsfe23.ams2...
>>
>>> have we got Right Click 'N' back for new folders, text docs etc. and has
>>> the idiot who thought of changing it to 'W' been strung up by his gooleys
>>> yet,
>>
>> Eh? Right-click "N"???????
>>
>
> [Wearily . . ] Yesss. In Win95 and 98, new folder was Right Click 'N' > 'F'.
> A new text file was Right Click 'N' > 'T' and so on.
>
> I went straight from 98 to XP. I think it was still 'N' in XP and was
> changed in Vista. Right Click 'W' seems to me to be a piece of sheer
> bloody-minded illogical and deliberate irritation, as do many of the other
> changes and bugs, so I had hoped that they might have restored 'N' this in
> 7.
>
> I've just about saved up enough for an iMac - the nice large one. I'm sorely
> tempted . . . .
>
>
> Nemo
>

You must be talking about some third-party software on your
Win 95/98 computer. As far as I can remember,' right-click > N > F'
or 'right-click > N > T' were never part of Windows.
I Googled to find any reference and all I could find were the usual
right-click > New > Folder etc.
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/windows95/tune-16.html
http://www.baycongroup.com/win98/windows_98.htm

Perhaps you can give us a link describing what you are talking about.

HI there

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>
> "Trevor" <nothanks@nothereatall.com> wrote in message
> news:7lfmbsF3d6lrdU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Hi there
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>
>>> For me the folders on the Desktop are hopeless. I used to like having
>>> several folders
>>> on the Desktop containing shortcuts and documents etc. In Win 311 or
>>> Win98 or XP
>>> you could do that, and have each folder open where you wanted and how
>>> big you wanted.
>>> I can't seem to get anything like that in Win7. Every time I open a
>>> folder it opens where the last folder opened, and opens at the size
>>> of the last folder.
>>> I've tried third-party desktop apps but they just add unnecessary
>>> complications.
>>> Hopefully somebody will tell me I'm missing something :-(
>>>
>>
>> You have selected in control panel 'open each folder in its own window'?
>>
>>
>>
>
> I assume you mean the setting under Folder Options, yes I have. That just
> allows you
> to have multiple folders open instead of having the same folder open each
> time.
> Are you saying that your folders remember their individual settings ?

No sorry I miss-read your original message <blush>

"Trevor" <nothanks@nothereatall.com> wrote in message news:7llg36F3dquogU1@mid.individual.net...
> HI there
>
> "Dave-UK" <Here@home> wrote in message
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>>
>> "Trevor" <nothanks@nothereatall.com> wrote in message
>> news:7lfmbsF3d6lrdU1@mid.individual.net...
>>> Hi there
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>
>>>> For me the folders on the Desktop are hopeless. I used to like having
>>>> several folders
>>>> on the Desktop containing shortcuts and documents etc. In Win 311 or
>>>> Win98 or XP
>>>> you could do that, and have each folder open where you wanted and how
>>>> big you wanted.
>>>> I can't seem to get anything like that in Win7. Every time I open a
>>>> folder it opens where the last folder opened, and opens at the size
>>>> of the last folder.
>>>> I've tried third-party desktop apps but they just add unnecessary
>>>> complications.
>>>> Hopefully somebody will tell me I'm missing something :-(
>>>>
>>>
>>> You have selected in control panel 'open each folder in its own window'?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I assume you mean the setting under Folder Options, yes I have. That just
>> allows you
>> to have multiple folders open instead of having the same folder open each
>> time.
>> Are you saying that your folders remember their individual settings ?
>
> No sorry I miss-read your original message <blush>
>
>
>

Oh well, never mind. I'll give up fighting the folder sizes.