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Windows 10 file open dialog
I am having a strange problem with my desktop PC.
When I go to open a file (in any program) it use to show suggestions after I type in a few characters of the file name. It no longer does this. How can I bring back that feature and what's its proper name? Jim |
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Windows 10 file open dialog
On 10/11/2018 14:14, Jim Dell wrote:
I am having a strange problem with my desktop PC. When I go to open a file (in any program) it use to show suggestions after I type in a few characters of the file name. It no longer does this. How can I bring back that feature and what's its proper name? Jim Go to the settings and then look for: Devices Typing Now look for something like in this picture this and make sure everything is set to On. https://i.imgur.com/IhGOXPJ.png https://i.imgur.com/IhGOXPJ.png Good Luck Nym Shifter. Path: aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jim Dell Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Windows 10 file open dialog Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 09:14:57 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 9 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: Acw9vWQxMu6nlYdsHzdb8w.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.4 X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://nntp.aioe.org:119 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: aioe.org alt.comp.os.windows-10:78699 -- With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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Windows 10 file open dialog
Jim Dell wrote:
I am having a strange problem with my desktop PC. When I go to open a file (in any program) it use to show suggestions after I type in a few characters of the file name. It no longer does this. How can I bring back that feature and what's its proper name? Common dialog box MRU I think is what you are referring to. This shows for Windows 7 but probably applies to Windows 10 too: https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/206632-common-dialog-boxes-enable-disable-dropdown-list-recent-files.html -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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Windows 10 file open dialog
Jim Dell wrote:
I am having a strange problem with my desktop PC. When I go to open a file (in any program) it use to show suggestions after I type in a few characters of the file name. It no longer does this. How can I bring back that feature and what's its proper name? Jim At a guess, it's called "AutoComplete". https://www.winhelponline.com/xp/nofileautocomplete.htm The winhelponline site thinks you currently have this situation, which turns it off. [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\AutoComplete] "AutoComplete In File Dialog" DWORD 0 Their registry merge file just removes the entry entirely. I couldn't find a list of alternative values for that entry, so you could set the DWORD to say 1 and have the thing work again. Maybe it would work, but I don't have documentation. It would be nicer if they just used Booleans and were done with it. When the item is completely missing, and there is no "AutoComplete In File Dialog" item, then the file dialog should autocomplete for you and offer a small menu of matches for what you've typed so far. Paul |
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Windows 10 file open dialog
Paul wrote:
Jim Dell wrote: I am having a strange problem with my desktop PC. When I go to open a file (in any program) it use to show suggestions after I type in a few characters of the file name. It no longer does this. How can I bring back that feature and what's its proper name? Jim At a guess, it's called "AutoComplete". https://www.winhelponline.com/xp/nofileautocomplete.htm The winhelponline site thinks you currently have this situation, which turns it off. [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\AutoComplete] Β* "AutoComplete In File Dialog"Β* DWORDΒ* 0 Their registry merge file just removes the entry entirely. I couldn't find a list of alternative values for that entry, so you could set the DWORD to say 1 and have the thing work again. Maybe it would work, but I don't have documentation. It would be nicer if they just used Booleans and were done with it. When the item is completely missing, and there is no Β*Β*Β* "AutoComplete In File Dialog" item, then the file dialog should autocomplete for you and offer a small menu of matches for what you've typed so far. Β*Β* Paul Paul Thank you. That led me to the Setting-Internet Properties . Content tab where you can turn it on. It's kind of misleading in that by its name you would think it only applies to the internet, but it also applies to Office programs. The other proposed fixes didn't work, bur thanks to those people for trying. Jim |
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Windows 10 file open dialog
Jim Dell wrote:
Paul wrote: Jim Dell wrote: I am having a strange problem with my desktop PC. When I go to open a file (in any program) it use to show suggestions after I type in a few characters of the file name. It no longer does this. How can I bring back that feature and what's its proper name? Jim At a guess, it's called "AutoComplete". https://www.winhelponline.com/xp/nofileautocomplete.htm The winhelponline site thinks you currently have this situation, which turns it off. [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\AutoComplete] "AutoComplete In File Dialog" DWORD 0 Their registry merge file just removes the entry entirely. I couldn't find a list of alternative values for that entry, so you could set the DWORD to say 1 and have the thing work again. Maybe it would work, but I don't have documentation. It would be nicer if they just used Booleans and were done with it. When the item is completely missing, and there is no "AutoComplete In File Dialog" item, then the file dialog should autocomplete for you and offer a small menu of matches for what you've typed so far. Paul Paul Thank you. That led me to the Setting-Internet Properties . Content tab where you can turn it on. It's kind of misleading in that by its name you would think it only applies to the internet, but it also applies to Office programs. The other proposed fixes didn't work, bur thanks to those people for trying. Jim Windows is tricky when it comes to naming. explorer.exe File Explorer (it also draws your desktop on older OSes) iexplore.exe Internet Explorer (a web browser) Explorer.exe is your DE or desktop environment. (On Windows 10, the Task Manager shows "DWM", which helps handle a mixture of environments, so the partitioning is a bit different on Win10. The "Displaying" function has been separated a bit.) The desktop environment has common file dialogs. Any Win32 application could be using the Open Dialog, the one with the Autocomplete feature. The registry entry in my previous post, belongs to explorer.exe. The registry entry should affect any application which "calls" the system open file dialog. By offering library routines of that sort, it saves application developers time, and it also provides a consistent user experience from one program to another. You can have Notepad open and have that dialog. You can have Autocad open and have that dialog. An application developer is perfectly free to make their own open file dialog, and break the rules by doing so. Perhaps displaying files in some new, disturbing way. But that's also a lot of work. The lazy mans way is to call the system dialog. ******* iexplore.exe is the web browser. There are actually two executables on the machine. There is a 32 bit version and a 64 big version (on a 64 bit OS installation). We're not sure why both exist - it could be some plugins that are 32 bit only and profit from that version. It also is a demonstration to other developers, that the OS can support both at the same time. Of course, nobody told the users this, and most people aren't aware what the hell they just executed :-) I always get a laugh out of this (Microsoft showing off, and confusing the users, at the same time). And the Internet security settings dialog that is used with iexplore.exe, that applies to more than just that browser. Some of the other third-party browser makers didn't want to duplicate the function, so they accepted the iexplore.exe settings as their own. If you change those settings, and you notice something weird happening with your other browser, that's a potential reason why. The iexplore.exe security settings, occupy around 2000 registry entries. Which is a good reason not to change them that way (with regedit) :-) The reason for the large number, is there are five "zones", and the permutations and combinations multiply together to give 2000 entries. Paul |
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Windows 10 file open dialog
"Paul" wrote
| The registry entry should affect any application which | "calls" the system open file dialog. By offering library | routines of that sort, it saves application developers time, | and it also provides a consistent user experience from | one program to another. You can have Notepad open and | have that dialog. You can have Autocad open and | have that dialog. | | An application developer is perfectly free to make their | own open file dialog, and break the rules by doing so. | Perhaps displaying files in some new, disturbing way. | But that's also a lot of work. The lazy mans way is | to call the system dialog. | It's a little more complicated than that. Pre-Vista the API is GetOpenFileName. On Vista+ that still works but there's a newer option that seems to be a wrapper function: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...=VS.85%29.aspx It's a COM-ified, arguably overproduced, FileOpen dialogue. But it doesn't provide much of value that I can see. There's an option to customize the "Places Bar", but that would be rude behavior. People may have already put their own custom choices on the Places Bar. I'd be rather annoyed if some wiseguy changed it to give me options like a program's app data folder, or My Documents (which I never use). I'm assuming the auto-suggest functionality requires that newer COM API function. (The newer API also allows the programmer to monitor your file selections and typing in the window, while the older style didn't.) Though the MS docs don't mention auto-suggest. I guess that's because it's not under the control of the programmer. But there's no reason any particular program needs to use the newer FileOpen function, much less switch to it in the case of pre-existing code, unless the author has their mind set on messing with your Places Bar. In the case of older software being updated, it's a lot of extra work for no appreciable benefit. It also requires coordinating the operation with the Windows version, using one API for XP and earlier with another API for Vista+. It's a classic example of how software gets broken unnecessarily because programmers don't know what they're doing and just grab the latest function. All of which is to say that I wouldn't assume you're going to get consistent behavior based on the Registry setting. |
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