How to 'rate' media files?

When opening a folder that contains Media files in Vista 64 a special "Rating" coloumn appears that seems to be adjustable allowing you to rate files from 1-5.

How do you change the star rating?

If you right click the file, select Properties, Details tab, You can click on the star ratings. You can also click on the stars in the information panel at the bottom of the explorer window.
Or you could use the rating system in Windows Media Player, same sort of thing.

I looked under properties and details tab it doesn't show any sort of star options.

You said something about Internet Explorer but I'm trying to rate movies that are already saved on my harddrive, maybe I am missing something.

What I was talking about before was for music files, didn't pick up that you were talking about media files in general. If you do what I said to an mp3, you'll see I'm not crazy!

The only way that I can see to do it in windows is through windows media player, but that doesn't seem to get reflected in the windows explorer rating column for files that vista can't play natively (like divx), but it works fine for the sample videos in wmv format.

I scoured the options settings and properties and it appears the rating coloum in Vista's Folder's view is there for no reason whatsoever.

Whats the point of having that coloum next to your movies when it rates all of your media 0/5 stars? You cant even shrink the coloum down or drag to save space.

You can always remove it from the view. Right click on the column headers and you'll get a list of all the columns available. Just untick the Rating one.

Okay thanks

It's too bad star ratings dont work it would come in handy.