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| Guest | file and folder names are gone This is a new one. Really thought I'd seen every curveball this abysmal new OS had to throw at me. GOT A NEW ONE! Maybe it isn't new to y'all, but I couldn't find an existing thread about it. Somehow, Vista has decided to stop showing me the names of files and folders. Instead, it prefers to show me the Date Modified. It would seem easy enough to fix this--just right-click and tell it to show me File Name. You would think that I would be able to do that, because you would think that Windows Vista isn't stupid. That would make you wrong, because it IS stupid, and it does not even offer me the option of showing File Name. The only way I can find file and folder names is by opening up the Properties box. That's annoying. What, exactly, was the problem with XP? Oh right, it wasn't enough like Mac's OS, because it actually let you control an iota of your own computer, and didn't try to second-guess you all the time, wrecking your computer in the process. Thank you, Microsoft, for assuming that I'm a child, and acting like a crackhead parent. |
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| Guest | Re: file and folder names are gone Jono11 If you are actually looking for a solution, please post some details about the problem. However, if this is simply a rant, I understand your frustration. It can be difficult to actually learn something new when you have done things the same way for soooo long. ![]() -- Ronnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User "Jono11" <Jono11@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:5F72F4D8-B9F9-45C1-B10A-3984F688E238@xxxxxx
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| Guest | Re: file and folder names are gone I'm looking for a solution. What else do you want to know about the problem? This isn't about me doing things the same or different. This is about my computer is about to die on me, it takes about 20 minutes to boot, Internet Explorer acts like I'm on a dialup connection, and nothing works the way it's supposed to--I bought the computer less than seven months ago! |
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| Guest | Re: file and folder names are gone Hi, Jono11.
As Ronnie said, it would help if you actually tell us about the problem, rather than continuing to just rant. :>( As you ought to know, WE are not Microsoft, either. We are just users, like you. Some of us volunteer a lot of time to help out where we can. Others come here looking for answers to their own problems and chime in when they see something they can help with. Others just come here to rant. :>( You haven't even told us the make and model of your computer. Or which Vista version you are running. Or anything else of substance. From your original post:
Vista is highly customizable. In Windows Explorer, right-click on the header of any column, then, in the context menu, check each item that you would like displayed. But you obviously know that already. If you don't see the columns that you want, you may need to click View (not Views) | Customize this folder... At the top of the Customize tab, it asks "What kid of folder do you want?" and gives you a drop-down menu with several choices. You may have somehow set this to Pictures and Videos, for example, rather than Documents. Try each of these until you find the one you like for this folder; you may want to check the box to apply this to all subfolders here. On the Toolbar, there is a Views button with a small triangle indicating a drop-down menu. This lets you choose to show the files as icons, tiles or the familiar Details. See which one shows the information you want to see. But none of this may be your particular problem. In all the Views, Name is shown by default and can't be deselected. If you see Date Modified, but not Name, you may have the Name column narrowed down so far that you can't read the names. No, there is a minimum width; the Name column is always at least 80 pixels wide. But you may have moved the Name column far to the right, so that it no longer appears onscreen, especially if you have narrowed the Explorer window, or have added a lot of other columns, or have made another column very wide. I could go on guessing for a long time, Jono11. But it would help if you would just tell us more about how your Windows Explorer window has been customized. You can see it. We can't. Or, you can just rant some more. But remember: We're NOT Microsoft. We can't fix it. All we can do is help you to fix it. We hope. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX rc@xxxxxx Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail beta 2 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 beta v.275) "Jono11" <Jono11@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:201AA17E-5DF5-4333-9D4D-1747143AF315@xxxxxx
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