1) I have hundreds of folders within folders, files within those folders,
and files within the larger folders that house more folders. I have
thoroughly integrated them since the first time I used a flavor of Windows
years ago. In Vista and XP the size is a category in ANY VIEW offered--I
could easily screenshot--and both FILES and FOLDERS have their size given in
a size category in ANY view and on mouseover and they are not just files.
2) It is simply not correct that there is no folder or file size in any
view.
3) It is simply not true that whatever view you choose in explorer the "List
view columns show." On the contrary. Whatever columns show IN ANY VIEW is
completely determined by this and if you say that, you haven't tried it or
found it:
This is the way you tailor what columns show in any view and it has NOTHING
to do with a persistence in ANY VIEW INCLUDING LIST:
1) Go to the bottom of the folder on the left where if you create a new
folder on your desktop there will be a new folder icon in the lower left
corner or if like I always do you substitute one of thousands of favicons in
your favicon collection or one of thousands of icons native to Windows
Vista, it's .dlls, .exes, and its downloaded programs and zip files via the
Change or Modify Icon dialogue box. If you have named the folder it will
have the name of the folder. If you have subbed an icon for the folder,
that icon will be there.
2) Right click that folder or icon and in the categories listed there that
look like this:
Sort By
Group By
Stack By
Name
Date Modified
Type
Size
Ascending
Descending
More
Click MORE and you will have the opportunity to customize and choose and
TAILOR WHICH OF OVER 120 column headings you want to confer on whichever
view you then choose and whichever way you choose to sort, group, or stack.
The way I do it because it works for me and is analagous to the Show in
Groups that was brought in during Windows XP is to go up to name where y ou
can choose
Sort
Group
Stack by Name
and I choose Stck by Name because this is analagous to the bold headings of
an index in a book except that they are headings now in Vista and I would
have made them more bold. By name means they will be grouped alphabetically
and then for the column headings I want, I do what I described above.
For my downloads folder, I choose Sort by "Date Modified" or I just do that
after a download so that I can easily locate many of the non-ituitively
named downloads with characters and less obvious names on them. Everyone
knows what I mean by that, because everyone sees those.
For ref:
Vista Folder FAQ
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...12cc71033.mspx
Press Alt Key to Show Menus in Explorer Folders Vista
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...d9e081033.mspx
Windows Explorer Vista
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk...a_explorer.htm
Organize Folders Vista
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...ductivity.mspx
Windows Vista Folders
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk...ta_virtual.htm http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips1409.html
Shell Team Video Exploring and Using Vista
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=114710
Paul Thurrott Explorer in Vista
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_05.asp http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/...a_beta1_02.asp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...es/design.mspx
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"Jeff Gaines" <whitedragon@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:xn0eu68o4z36u7000@msnews.microsoft.com...
> On 26/11/2006 in message <ubHKxcQEHHA.992@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl> Synapse
> Syndrome wrote:
>
>>
>>No Folder Size in Details Pane or Details View ?!
>>
>>Did Microsoft not allow this to piss me off or what?
>>
>>ss.
>
> There has never been an entry for size of a folder has there, only files
> have a size.
>
> Have you noticed that whatever view you choose in Explorer the ListViev
> columns still show?
>
> --
> Jeff Gaines