[gui-talk] Maintaining View settings in Win Xp Windows Explorer

[Joel Deutsch]

chris,

I take it you mean the Tools menu in Window Explorer? That sounds 
familiar,that very setting I learned to make years ago and haven't thought 
of since. In fact I never even open that Tools menu. Hah. Let me try this 
today and see if it works as you say. Boy, was that frustrating the past 
couple of days.

Re getting XP Home to work on my Acer; It was more than good luck. My I T 
pro friend is a serious techhy and, though it was a challenge even for him, 
he figured out how to get those drivers and flip the Bird to the Seattle 
Death Star. Sorry for the Star Wars reference. Wasn't blind or low vision in 
1979, or whenever it was that the first Star Wars was released 
theatrically,so it comes naturally to me to use that common expression.

tThanks for the help. I'm sure you're right. I'll report on what I assume 
will be my success, later.

Joel
pretrty ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherh40 at googlemail.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 4:02 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Maintaining View settings in Win Xp Windows Explorer


You're very lucky to get XP Home working on your laptop. Like you
correctly said drivers are hard to find now MS is pushing Windows 7. I
will personally do the opposite; stick with 7 and not touch XP with a
10-inch barge pole <smiles>. Anyway, back on topic; to apply your view
settings to all folders:
1. On the tools menu, choose folder options.
2. Ctrl+tab to the views page, and choose apply all folders.
3. Choose the yes button when prompted.
4. Tab to the ok button and activate it.
Hope this helps.

Chris Hallsworth
e-mail: christopherh40 at googlemail.com
MSN: ch9675 at hotmail.com
Skype: chrishallsworth7266

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On 02/01/2010 00:57, Joel Deutsch wrote:
> Hi listers,
>
> I'm lucky to have managed to get my Acer laptop running under familiar Win
> XP Home rather than the Windows 7 it came with, thanks to my I T
> professional pal who set it up for me, which included having to seek out 
> all
> sorts of drivers that were freely available and easy to find until 
> Microsoft
> began shipping Windows 7, at which point they forced a lot of computer
> companies to stop offering drivers for Win XP. Or so says my friend..
>
> Fine. So that's one thing I didn't have to learn afresh. As everyone 
> knows,
> the keyboard alone is a tough enough challenge for this dude.
>
> But I have to relearn something I used to know how to set on my XP 
> desktop,
> but have forgotten how to do long ago. Making View settings stick in 
> Windows
> Explorer. I discovered that some files in some folders were invisible to 
> me
> and, checking their properties, I learned that it wasn't because somehow
> they'd been checked to be invisible or something. it turned out that the
> option "Icons was checked in the View menu, and this had made some files
> disappear. I don't know why that is.
>
> anyway, I arrowed down to Details and pressed Enter to check it, instead,
> and the files reappeared, and navigation was normal. But just leaving
> Windows Explorer to do something in another application and coming back to
> look for another file, I found that my change had undone itself and half 
> the
> files in certain folders had again disappeared, or I didn't know how to 
> look
> for them. Like maybe you're supposed to use the left and right arrows
> instead of going up and down, as if the files were icons on your Desktop? 
> I
> didn't think of that. I just arrowed up and down, because that's what was
> habit for me.
>
> So I went into the View menu and, sure enough, it had reset itself to show
> Icons checked again. I arrowed to Details, hit Enter, and things went back
> to normal, by my lights.
>
> But how do you get changes to the View menu to stick? I just plain forgot.
>
> thanks in advance to anyone who knows what I'm talking about and can
> reeducate me on this.
>
> Joel
>
>
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