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Old March 12th 15, 01:30 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
The Scream
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There's a new arrow button in File Explorer to go up one level in folder
tree. That's very useful, combined with back button, for people who still
like the mouse. This button was forgotten in Windows XP era.

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Old March 13th 15, 02:33 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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The Scream wrote on 3/11/2015 8:30 PM:
There's a new arrow button in File Explorer to go up one level in folder tree. That's very useful, combined with back
button, for people who still like the mouse. This button was forgotten in Windows XP era.


It's been there all along since the start of win8. If you're new to Win8 then yes it is new, and yes I love it.
Going back is not always going up and that's a great feature. There are quite a few little tweaks like this in win8.

One I like a lot is the 'size all columns to fit'. When you're in the detail view, names dates type etc get truncated
sometimes. You can add it to the quick access bar (top) and that allows you to see all your fields easily with one click.

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Old March 13th 15, 03:29 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Char Jackson
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:33:48 -0400, Big_Al wrote:

The Scream wrote on 3/11/2015 8:30 PM:
There's a new arrow button in File Explorer to go up one level in folder tree. That's very useful, combined with back
button, for people who still like the mouse. This button was forgotten in Windows XP era.


It's been there all along since the start of win8. If you're new to Win8 then yes it is new, and yes I love it.
Going back is not always going up and that's a great feature. There are quite a few little tweaks like this in win8.


For me, I rarely want to go 'back' and almost always want to go 'up', so I'm
glad Classic Explorer (part of Classic Shell) provides that option. Of
course, it's usually easier to just hit Backspace to go up.

One I like a lot is the 'size all columns to fit'. When you're in the detail view, names dates type etc get truncated
sometimes. You can add it to the quick access bar (top) and that allows you to see all your fields easily with one click.


I haven't used that because I like the granularity of being able to resize
just a single specific column by double clicking the column separator, but
nevertheless it's a good addition. It sounds like an idea borrowed from
Excel, which has had that functionality for as long as I can remember.

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Old March 13th 15, 08:33 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:29:06 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:

One I like a lot is the 'size all columns to fit'. When you're in the detail view, names dates type etc get truncated
sometimes. You can add it to the quick access bar (top) and that allows you to see all your fields easily with one click.


I haven't used that because I like the granularity of being able to resize
just a single specific column by double clicking the column separator, but
nevertheless it's a good addition. It sounds like an idea borrowed from
Excel, which has had that functionality for as long as I can remember.


I was wondering about all the excitement about the up arrow, since I
never missed it, so I opened my Explorer (Win 7, BTW) to see why.

It seems that I configured it to have the folder tree in the address
bar, and I just click on the parent folder there (the reason I had to go
there and look is that it's so habitual that I couldn't visualize it
otherwise).

I keep forgetting about backspace, though, which is obviously more
convenient. Thanks for reminding me, and I promise to try to remember it
this time :-)

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Old March 13th 15, 11:58 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:33:48 -0400, Big_Al wrote:

The Scream wrote on 3/11/2015 8:30 PM:
There's a new arrow button in File Explorer to go up one level in folder
tree. That's very useful, combined with back
button, for people who still like the mouse. This button was forgotten
in Windows XP era.


It's been there all along since the start of win8. If you're new to Win8
then yes it is new, and yes I love it.
Going back is not always going up and that's a great feature. There are
quite a few little tweaks like this in win8.


For me, I rarely want to go 'back' and almost always want to go 'up', so
I'm
glad Classic Explorer (part of Classic Shell) provides that option. Of
course, it's usually easier to just hit Backspace to go up.

One I like a lot is the 'size all columns to fit'. When you're in the
detail view, names dates type etc get truncated
sometimes. You can add it to the quick access bar (top) and that allows
you to see all your fields easily with one click.


I haven't used that because I like the granularity of being able to resize
just a single specific column by double clicking the column separator, but
nevertheless it's a good addition. It sounds like an idea borrowed from
Excel, which has had that functionality for as long as I can remember.


Noticed just today that W8's File Explorer has a lot more columns to show in
detail view than previous versions of Windows.

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Old March 14th 15, 05:46 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:29:06 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:

One I like a lot is the 'size all columns to fit'. When you're in the detail view, names dates type etc get truncated
sometimes. You can add it to the quick access bar (top) and that allows you to see all your fields easily with one click.


I haven't used that because I like the granularity of being able to resize
just a single specific column by double clicking the column separator, but
nevertheless it's a good addition. It sounds like an idea borrowed from
Excel, which has had that functionality for as long as I can remember.


I was wondering about all the excitement about the up arrow, since I
never missed it, so I opened my Explorer (Win 7, BTW) to see why.

It seems that I configured it to have the folder tree in the address
bar, and I just click on the parent folder there (the reason I had to go
there and look is that it's so habitual that I couldn't visualize it
otherwise).

I keep forgetting about backspace, though, which is obviously more
convenient. Thanks for reminding me, and I promise to try to remember it
this time :-)

I've used the 'up' and 'back' arrows often to avoid a mousing over to
the folder pane mix that approach with pinned folders to Explorer on the
Taskbar. I also renable the QL Toolbar with a few, but specific
Explorer folder locations.

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Old March 14th 15, 08:51 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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"The Scream" wrote in
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Noticed just today that W8's File Explorer has a lot more columns to
show in detail view than previous versions of Windows.



Right click in a blank space of the column name row and you can add any
number of columns.

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Old March 14th 15, 05:04 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Char Jackson
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:33:27 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:29:06 -0500, Char Jackson wrote:

One I like a lot is the 'size all columns to fit'. When you're in the detail view, names dates type etc get truncated
sometimes. You can add it to the quick access bar (top) and that allows you to see all your fields easily with one click.


I haven't used that because I like the granularity of being able to resize
just a single specific column by double clicking the column separator, but
nevertheless it's a good addition. It sounds like an idea borrowed from
Excel, which has had that functionality for as long as I can remember.


I was wondering about all the excitement about the up arrow, since I
never missed it, so I opened my Explorer (Win 7, BTW) to see why.

It seems that I configured it to have the folder tree in the address
bar, and I just click on the parent folder there (the reason I had to go
there and look is that it's so habitual that I couldn't visualize it
otherwise).

I keep forgetting about backspace, though, which is obviously more
convenient. Thanks for reminding me, and I promise to try to remember it
this time :-)


Good luck! I've heard about your memory. ;-)

(It's not that different from mine.)

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Old March 14th 15, 05:08 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:58:12 -0000, "The Scream" wrote:

Noticed just today that W8's File Explorer has a lot more columns to show in
detail view than previous versions of Windows.


Windows 7 has just over 300 possible columns. How many does Win 8 have?

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Old March 14th 15, 06:44 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:58:12 -0000, "The Scream" wrote:

Noticed just today that W8's File Explorer has a lot more columns to show
in
detail view than previous versions of Windows.


Windows 7 has just over 300 possible columns. How many does Win 8 have?


I don't know, didn't count them. I guess it depends on the stored files.
Just found if you hover the mouse over the column name it shows an arrow
that contains a filter list. For example, if you go to c:\windows and click
on the type column arrow, you can show just application or other file type.

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Old March 14th 15, 08:28 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 11:08:10 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:58:12 -0000, "The Scream" wrote:

Noticed just today that W8's File Explorer has a lot more columns to show in
detail view than previous versions of Windows.


Windows 7 has just over 300 possible columns. How many does Win 8 have?



You made me count them! 301, if I've counted correctly. The same as
Windows 7, I assume.

But I also noticed that "Status" is in the list twice, Is it the same
in Windows 7?

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Old March 14th 15, 09:51 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Char Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:58:12 -0000, "The Scream" wrote:

Noticed just today that W8's File Explorer has a lot more columns to show in
detail view than previous versions of Windows.


Windows 7 has just over 300 possible columns. How many does Win 8 have?

Like Win7 more than one too many.
- who uses Auto Summary, Data rate, or Perceived type

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Old March 14th 15, 11:54 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 17:44:40 -0000, The Scream wrote:

"Char Jackson" escreveu na mensagem
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:58:12 -0000, "The Scream" wrote:

Noticed just today that W8's File Explorer has a lot more columns to show
in
detail view than previous versions of Windows.


Windows 7 has just over 300 possible columns. How many does Win 8 have?


I don't know, didn't count them. I guess it depends on the stored files.
Just found if you hover the mouse over the column name it shows an arrow
that contains a filter list. For example, if you go to c:\windows and click
on the type column arrow, you can show just application or other file type.


I didn't know about those filters, so I tried it on this Win7 computer.
It works in W7 Explorer as well. Good to know.

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Old March 14th 15, 11:56 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:51:02 -0700, "...winston‫" wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:58:12 -0000, "The Scream" wrote:

Noticed just today that W8's File Explorer has a lot more columns to show in
detail view than previous versions of Windows.


Windows 7 has just over 300 possible columns. How many does Win 8 have?

Like Win7 more than one too many.
- who uses Auto Summary, Data rate, or Perceived type


What I really hate is that the one I want will be #299, and I don't see
a way to get there other than scrolling...and scrolling...and
scrolling...and scrolling...and scrolling...and scrolling...

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Old March 15th 15, 01:10 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:51:02 -0700, "...winston‫" wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:58:12 -0000, "The Scream"
wrote:

Noticed just today that W8's File Explorer has a lot more columns to
show in
detail view than previous versions of Windows.

Windows 7 has just over 300 possible columns. How many does Win 8 have?

Like Win7 more than one too many.
- who uses Auto Summary, Data rate, or Perceived type


What I really hate is that the one I want will be #299, and I don't see
a way to get there other than scrolling...and scrolling...and
scrolling...and scrolling...and scrolling...and scrolling...


We can do page down. Counted the first 15 Items, then did page down 20 times
(14 items x 20), then counted more 8 items, I guess this windows 8 File
Explorer has about 303 columns to show in details view.

 




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