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| Open folders in new windows? I prefer to have all my folders set to open in new windows as I'm drilling through them. This makes it vastly easier for me to move/copy files around, or to compare something between two folders. Is there a way to select this type of behavior in Vista Business? William |
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| Re: Open folders in new windows? William R. Walsh expressed precisely :[color=blue] > I prefer to have all my folders set to open in new windows as I'm > drilling through them. This makes it vastly easier for me to > move/copy files around, or to compare something between two folders. > > Is there a way to select this type of behavior in Vista Business? > > William[/color] In a folder, click "Organize" and choose "Folder and Search options". Under "Browse Folders" choose "Open each folder in its own windows". -- Mamamegs. I reject your reality and substitute my own. (Adam Savage) [url]www.vistabits.nl[/url] (Now also in english) MSN: _*mamamegs******.com*_ |
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| Re: Open folders in new windows? On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:26:21 -0500, "William R. Walsh" <newsgroups1@idontwantjunqueemail.walshcomptech.com> wrote: [color=blue] >I prefer to have all my folders set to open in new windows as I'm drilling >through them. This makes it vastly easier for me to move/copy files around, >or to compare something between two folders. > >Is there a way to select this type of behavior in Vista Business? > >William[/color] While it may not always give you exactly what you want you could try this change. 1. Open Windows Explorer 2. From Menu Bar, Tools, Folder Options 3. General Tab. Open each folder in it's own window 4. Click Apply. Ok. Better, assuming you want to move files around or compare the folder contents of some other folder, open two or more instances of Windows Explorer and resize the windows to have them appear along size each other or lined up vertically so all appear on screen at once. As long as they don't overlap clicking within the confines of one window won't shut the others down but will change the focus of which window pane has Windows' attention. I do this all the time and you can easily drag and drop files this way either alone or in groups. In fact you can do multiple instances of moving differet groups of files around all at once since Vista will treat each request as a seperate event and set up handlers to take care of each process. So in theory anyway, (I've never tried more than 3) you could have a half a dozen or more instances of Explorer all open at once with you copying/moving/comparing files to various folders all at once with each action showing it's own progress bar of it's particular copy/move process while the scroll bar for each window pane works seperate of the others. That is a cool Windows trick Vista does do well...most of the time anyway without stumbling. |
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