Vista - Modifying the Folder Infotip/Tooltip (When hovering a folder withthe cursor)

Dear Experts,

i recently discovered a "strange" behavior of the folder infotip (or
tooltip, as some call it). When hovering the mouse cursor over a folder
the corresponding infotip appears (when tooltips are enabled in the view
section of the folder options, which is the default setting iirc), and
with Windows vista it looks like this (I'm using vista ultimate 32 sp1):

Date created: 02.11.2006 13:18 (<- date format set to european)
Size: larger than 981 MB
Folders: Windows

Which is the infotip of my Windows dir (C:\Windows)


An infotip of an empty folder looks like this:

Date created: <DATE>
Folder is Empty



The infotip of a folder containing (a) file(s) (But NO Subdirectories) :

Date created: <DATE>
Size: xy KB (or MB, GB ...)


The infotip of a folder with files AND Subdirectories:

Date created: <DATE>
Size: xx KB
Folders: <CURRENT FOLDER>


So, i'm not sure, but i think thats not the intended behavior, because
the "CURRENT FOLDER" here is the folder i'm hovering with my cursor and
not one of the Subdirectories in that folder.

Is there something messed up or is this really the default functionality
in vista? (Has someone a fresh installation to verify?)

Because Windows XP does this correctly. I just checked on my second PC.
The folder infotip looks like this in Win XP:

Date created: <DATE>
Size: <Size>
Folders: <comma-separated list of the actual Subfolders>
Files: <List of Files in that folder>


So, is this just my installation of vista?
And if yes, how can i fix this?

Regards,
Alex

No idea?

can't someone verify that this behavior is normal?

Help please..

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:01:02 +0200, Alexander Seeberg
<waldbaum@xxxxxx> wrote:
You are replying to a question ; what is/was the question ?