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Can opening "My Computer" be made faster?
On Sun, 9 Feb 2014 04:08:26 -0600, "BillW50" wrote:
"micky" wrote in message .. . I think PowerDesk6 is the latest version that will work with XP. It's good too, with lots more functionality than windows explorer, including more versatility in views, built in unzpper and zipper, and the display includes Control Panel and other things WE doesn't have, except for video image of the camera, which WE does have but PD6 doesn't. YOu can set up PD to replace WE, or not to, or use it half the time, by clicking on its icon instead of WE, but letting calls to WE continue to go to WE. I do the third choice but sometimes I think I should do the first. But Dialog Helper is very simple, never causes problems in 10+ years (I got it first from another company.) You may have to check a box during installation of PD6 to get DH. If you like that one, you might also like AnVir Task Manager. It comes in two flavors, free and commercial. It does many different things, but one thing is that it adds a button in those open/save dialog boxes. And lists the most common folders that you use. This makes it very fast going to your most used folders. Thanks, I'll look at it. Did my post have anything to do with the OP? |
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Can opening "My Computer" be made faster?
In message , Paul
writes: [] It's possible I did mis-interpreted the question, and concentrate too much on Explorer itself (on the title of the post). The File Save Dialog, might have some weird behaviors of its own. Someone at the bottom of this thread, noticed removing a network bridge fixed it. So just a modification to networking itself, can break it. http://forums.techarena.in/ms-office-support/752499.htm Maybe there is some difference, between the things an application remembers, and the main Explorer window ? [] Thanks. No, the file save dialog usually opens quickly enough; it's just that if it opens pointing at a directory on C:, and I want to save on one on D: (without changing the _name_ of the file I'm saving), I have to press the Up button to climb up from wherever it is on C:, until I get to the top level where I can see the drives - or, I press the My Computer button on the left of the Save window. When I get to this point (by either method), a delay sometimes happens, with the swinging torch, before the list of drives appears in the right pane. The same delay ensues if I open Explorer with Win+E, which opens at the same top level. If I open explorer with the shortcut I have to %windir%\explorer.exe /e, D:\ (i. e. the root of D, it opens fast enough. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder... |
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Can opening "My Computer" be made faster?
In message , Hot-Text
writes: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In message , Hot-Text writes: Make a folder on root name it "A1" for your Shortcuts Add list of needed Shortcuts desktop My Computer and any Shortcuts you need in a Two chicks a way and A-1 will always be on top No, "!" will always be on top (-: JP-Shortcuts J. P. here at MPWG As for given out good info You are one of are Top 4 (-: I just hope one of these days I'll be able to kiss The bottom of your Feet I think you've perhaps consumed too much of whatever alcohol is common in the part of the world is represented by "MPWG"! So the Folder name will be Look up Well, if I want a folder (or file) to always come to the top of the default sort order (which is by name), I start it with !, such as !read-me.txt, or just ! or !! for folders. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder... |
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Can opening "My Computer" be made faster?
In message , micky
writes: On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 08:46:02 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: When I open "My Computer" - for example with Windows-E, but I notice it most when downloading something and my browser has "remembered" somewhere on the wrong drive, so I have to climb the tree up and then down again or use the My Computer button in the save window* - it takes \ I don't follow this. When do you have to start this climbiing? What are you doing. For example, saving a file from Firefox (which I have set to ask me where to save, rather than always saving into the same place). When I do this, I'm often creating a new directory to put it into. (Which I may well subsequently delete, move, or rename.) Firefox tends to remember the location last saved to (actually I think it remembers several - I've never worked out the details; it might be one for each filetype?). If, however, that location no longer exists (because I've moved renamed or deleted it), Firefox tends to default to somewhere on the C: drive. I usually save to the D: drive, so have to climb out of C: and then down within D: to get to where I want to save (and make a new directory if necessary). It is when I get to the level above C: root - either by keeping clicking the up button from wherever Firefox starts, or clicking the My Computer button straight away - that the delay (which hasn't been much in evidence since I started this thread, of course!) appears. Not sure if this is related, but with PowerDesk6 comes a program called Dialog Helper and it keeps a record of past used directorys and files, under two little boxes in the blue margin at the top of the pop-up box I think I have something similar - in fact it may be the same thing, the name sounds familiar. But ... when one has to Open a directory for saving, or other purposes. So it's only one click and one step from wherever you are to where you want to go, if you've been there before. .... since I usually _haven't_ been there before ("there" may well not exist), it won't help me much. (If I'm saving the second or third file to the same place within one session, Firefox remembers that place anyway.) [] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder... |
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Can opening "My Computer" be made faster?
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In message , Hot-Text writes: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In message , Hot-Text writes: Make a folder on root name it "A1" for your Shortcuts Add list of needed Shortcuts desktop My Computer and any Shortcuts you need in a Two chicks a way and A-1 will always be on top No, "!" will always be on top (-: JP-Shortcuts J. P. here at MPWG As for given out good info You are one of are Top 4 (-: I just hope one of these days I'll be able to kiss The bottom of your Feet I think you've perhaps consumed too much of whatever alcohol is common in the part of the world is represented by "MPWG"! No alcohol Perhaps I consumed too much in the Pass So the Folder name will be Look up Well, if I want a folder (or file) to always come to the top of the default sort order (which is by name), I start it with !, such as !read-me.txt, or just ! or !! for folders. O'you one of them that Delete the New in Folder JP-Shortcuts we all need them at times Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder... If that is true I haven't seen Beauty For about 6 Years Well that is what Cam4 is for To view Beauty with a Beer in the nude Hmm |
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Can opening "My Computer" be made faster?
On Sun, 9 Feb 2014 15:32:10 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , micky writes: On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 08:46:02 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: When I open "My Computer" - for example with Windows-E, but I notice it most when downloading something and my browser has "remembered" somewhere on the wrong drive, so I have to climb the tree up and then down again or use the My Computer button in the save window* - it takes \ I don't follow this. When do you have to start this climbiing? What are you doing. For example, saving a file from Firefox (which I have set to ask me where to save, rather than always saving into the same place). When I do this, I'm often creating a new directory to put it into. (Which I may well subsequently delete, move, or rename.) Firefox tends to remember the location last saved to (actually I think it remembers several - I've never worked out the details; it might be one for each filetype?). If, however, that location no longer exists (because I've moved renamed or deleted it), Firefox tends to default to somewhere on the C: drive. I usually save to the D: drive, so have to climb out of C: and then down within D: to get to where I want to save (and make a new directory if necessary). Then my post was entirely on point and what you need is Dialog Helper. Glad to hear it. It keeps a list of every location you've saved things to. I don't know how it groups them, but it always gets it right afaict. One small white square for file names and next to it another small white square for directory names, each with an image inside it of a file or directory. When you've used the directory name or the file name, I don't believe there is any need to open My Computer, even behind the scene, because it has the fully-whatever name of directory or file when you click on it, and there's no more need to look for it. It is when I get to the level above C: root - either by keeping clicking the up button from wherever Firefox starts, or clicking the My Computer button straight away - that the delay (which hasn't been much in evidence since I started this thread, of course!) appears. Not sure if this is related, but with PowerDesk6 comes a program called Dialog Helper and it keeps a record of past used directorys and files, under two little boxes in the blue margin at the top of the pop-up box I think I have something similar - in fact it may be the same thing, I doubt if you have it or you'd have explored (get it?) the little boxes in the top blue border of the Save dialog boxes. And it only comes with PowerDesk afaict, not alone. It's barely mentioned in the PowerDesk installation file description, maybe not at all. the name sounds familiar. But ... when one has to Open a directory for saving, or other purposes. So it's only one click and one step from wherever you are to where you want to go, if you've been there before. ... since I usually _haven't_ been there before ("there" may well not exist), it won't help me much. You're always saving things in new folders? Even so, won't you have already been to the parent or grandparent folder of the prospective new folder? DHelper will get you quickly to what is to be the parent folder, and the Windows Save or Open box has its own little Create New Folder button. Neither step will require any portion of My Computer. even internally, I think. (That is, My Computer has to know ALL the directories and files at some high level, and that's what takes time.) (If I'm saving the second or third file to the same place within one session, Firefox remembers that place anyway.) It only remembers in the same session, and only so long as you use same location over and over. Once you change the location, then it only remembers that new location and it's totally forgotten the other one (except the default that shows up again in the next sesssion, iiuc.) Dialog Helper remembers all, or at least up to 15 of each kind -- I don't think I've ever had occasion to go -- forever. Although creating and using a second FF persona might cause one to start from the beginning again. Also, using a new computer. :-) It also has other choices 1) Clear folder (or document) list 2) Remove deleted folders (or files) from list 3) Save current path to clipboard 4) Display Helper Properties [] BTW, did you all know that if you open the Open Dialog box and there are hundreds of files in the folder, one doesn't have to scroll to find the one he wants, nor does he have to type the whole name. By typing the first few characters of the name, it gives a list of files that start that way. |
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Can opening "My Computer" be made faster?
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
When I open "My Computer" - for example with Windows-E, but I notice it most when downloading something and my browser has "remembered" somewhere on the wrong drive, so I have to climb the tree up and then down again or use the My Computer button in the save window* - it takes a long time, with the torch waving, before it shows me the list of drives and a couple of things like "my documents". (If done from Win+E, also shows the webcam.) (*Yes, I know browsers can be set to always save in the same place. I don't want that - I want it to ask me where. That would be sidestepping the problem anyway.) There's a third option, which is the one I use: I do let it prompt me as to where to save downloads, but then I usually just save it to a folder named "Downloads" which is pretty much reserved for this activity. THEN I can later move the file(s) to whereever I think it/they ultimately belong(s). Isn't that a whole lot simpler and easier? And otherwise, I've got to keep searching for the proper place to store each file, each and every time I download something, on each and every browser, which is a PIA. It's just easier to save it in one location, and then later move it to wherever it ultimately belongs. In the final analysis, I would classify this as solving a problem that doesn't deserve to be a problem - not sidestepping it. :-) |
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Can opening "My Computer" be made faster?
On Sun, 9 Feb 2014 04:08:26 -0600, "BillW50" wrote:
"micky" wrote in message .. . I think PowerDesk6 is the latest version that will work with XP. It's good too, with lots more functionality than windows explorer, including more versatility in views, built in unzpper and zipper, and the display includes Control Panel and other things WE doesn't have, except for video image of the camera, which WE does have but PD6 doesn't. YOu can set up PD to replace WE, or not to, or use it half the time, by clicking on its icon instead of WE, but letting calls to WE continue to go to WE. I do the third choice but sometimes I think I should do the first. But Dialog Helper is very simple, never causes problems in 10+ years (I got it first from another company.) You may have to check a box during installation of PD6 to get DH. If you like that one, you might also like AnVir Task Manager. It comes in two flavors, free and commercial. It does many different things, but one thing is that it adds a button in those open/save dialog boxes. And lists the most common folders that you use. This makes it very fast going to your most used folders. You're right, AnVir has a lot of features, including one very similar to Dialog Helper. http://www.anvir.com/opensave-dialogs.htm "When user clicks on this button, it shows a menu with list of recently used folders. Additionally, menu contains user’s favorites folders. When user clicks on a menu item, Open/Save dialog navigates to the corresponding folder. This significantly SAVES TIME while opening and saving files." Is "navigate" the right word, two lines up? I thought navigation was step-by-step-by-step, but this is direct. |
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Can opening "My Computer" be made faster?
In message , micky
writes: [] It keeps a list of every location you've saved things to. I don't know how it groups them, but it always gets it right afaict. [] You're always saving things in new folders? Even so, won't you have Nearly always, yes. already been to the parent or grandparent folder of the prospective new Not for saving purposes, no. folder? DHelper will get you quickly to what is to be the parent folder, and the Windows Save or Open box has its own little Create New I know, I use that a lot. Folder button. Neither step will require any portion of My Computer. even internally, I think. (That is, My Computer has to know ALL the directories and files at some high level, and that's what takes time.) What seems to be taking the time is the level above that, where it eventually produces a list (right pane) of _drives_, not directories. If I press the Windows key and the E key, for example. [] BTW, did you all know that if you open the Open Dialog box and there are hundreds of files in the folder, one doesn't have to scroll to find the one he wants, nor does he have to type the whole name. By typing the first few characters of the name, it gives a list of files that start that way. Yes, typing first character can indeed save time. Though I try very hard _never_ to have hundreds of files - or folders - in a folder. If they get to be much more than a screenful, I subdivide. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Carl Sagan once wrote that all children are natural scientists but they have it beaten out of them. - Robin Ince, Radio Times 19-25 November 2011 |
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Can opening "My Computer" be made faster?
In message , Bill in Co
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: When I open "My Computer" - for example with Windows-E, but I notice it most when downloading something and my browser has "remembered" somewhere on the wrong drive, so I have to climb the tree up and then down again or use the My Computer button in the save window* - it takes a long time, with the torch waving, before it shows me the list of drives and a couple of things like "my documents". (If done from Win+E, also shows the webcam.) (*Yes, I know browsers can be set to always save in the same place. I don't want that - I want it to ask me where. That would be sidestepping the problem anyway.) There's a third option, which is the one I use: I do let it prompt me as to where to save downloads, but then I usually just save it to a folder named "Downloads" which is pretty much reserved for this activity. THEN I can later move the file(s) to whereever I think it/they ultimately belong(s). A workable approach. I'm usually fairly sure of my destination anyway, so it would involve extra steps every time for me, but I can see it could work for some. Isn't that a whole lot simpler and easier? And otherwise, I've got to keep searching for the proper place to store each file, each and every time I download something, on each and every browser, which is a PIA. It's just easier to save it in one location, and then later move it to wherever it ultimately belongs. In the final analysis, I would classify this as solving a problem that doesn't deserve to be a problem - not sidestepping it. :-) If you mean the delay when looking at the top level, then you are probably right; I just liked the intellectual challenge of _why_ that sometimes takes a while, and wondering if there's anything that would speed it. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Carl Sagan once wrote that all children are natural scientists but they have it beaten out of them. - Robin Ince, Radio Times 19-25 November 2011 |
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