In message , Mayayana
writes:
| http://www.jsware.net/jsware/xpfix.php5#folfix
|
| (I also wrote a fix for Vista/7 at one point, which is
| slightly different from XP. But in my limited experience
| with Vista/7 it appears that MS finally fixed the bug.)
|
| Thanks for that, but "XPFix and XP Folder Fix are HTA utilities. HTA
| stands for "HTML Application". An HTA is just a webpage that runs in
| Internet Explorer like a program." I fear I don't want to have
| everything in a browser window, so I'll just stick with the buggy
| Explorer. (Sorry, that sounds more ungrateful than I intend.)

I don't understand. You don't want everything
in a browser window? The utility doesn't put your
folders in a browser window. What it does is to
fix the Registry settings for folder display. It does
that with VBScript. The HTA is just a graphical
interface, so that people can specify the settings
they want without having to edit script code. In
other words, it's like a program that you might
install to fix folders. It's just that it's written in
script instead because that's quicker and easier to
do....and because it allows people to inspect the
code if they want to.

I won't feel insulted if you just don't want to trust
other peoples' software. But there's nothing "iffy"
about HTAs per se. They're used quite a bit by
corporate IT to write quick, customizable GUI software.

I'd tell you how to do it yourself, but it's not that
kind of a thing. The settings are complex and convoluted.
(There's a detailed explanation in the HTA file in the
download, below the utility GUI.)


Thanks. The explanation on your page led me to believe that it was
something that ran in a browser window (which is sort of true) but that
also all my exploring would then be in browser windows (which is of
course not the case).

I've tried it. I wasn't able to drag the edges of the sample window, but
was able to enter figures into the boxes in the next one down, so no
matter. The application triggered my firewall several times, and them
went unresponsive for a _long_ time (I think more than the few seconds
it warns about!), then reported it had successfully adjusted 8xx
windows. I think it has worked. Thanks for it.
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