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Old March 8th 10, 10:21 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Llibert
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Thank you again for the attention that all of you paid to my question. I
realize that in the meantime we must resign ourselves to click on context
menu, Properties, just for pendrives and memory cards. Maybe I'll see a fix
before migrating to other OS versions ...
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Old March 8th 10, 10:21 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Llibert
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Default Infotip on removable storage media

Thank you again for the attention that all of you paid to my question. I
realize that in the meantime we must resign ourselves to click on context
menu, Properties, just for pendrives and memory cards. Maybe I'll see a fix
before migrating to other OS versions ...
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Old March 8th 10, 09:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Tim Meddick
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Ken, despite what [some] other people may say about me, I do make quite an effort to
see that what I post is firmly grounded in fact.

I spent some time looking at the effect when I answered this post, but have noticed
it before and found it very annoying.

I have made many customizations to XP by "hacking" my way around the registry but, as
yet, have not found a way of making Removable Drives display "Total size" and "Free
space" as an "InfoTip" as is the case with Fixed Disks. But I am still searching....

Indeed, Win7 seems to be accomplished in the little "fixes" XP needed!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:41:36 -0000, "Tim Meddick"
wrote:


I cannot tell you how to accomplish what you want.

But I can tell you that both the effect that Removable Drives [Class] do not
display
Total and Free Space (as InfoTips) and that the option to Make Partition Active
should be greyed out in Disk Management.

Both of these behaviours is normal if undesirable.

I too think; "why shouldn't free-space be displayed on Removable Drives, just as
it
is on fixed disks?"

But the facts are that they aren't.



Interesting. I had never noticed this, so I wanted to check it. I
don't have an XP machine handy to check it on, so I only checked in
Windows 7. In Windows 7, free space is displayed on removable drive,
just as with fixed ones.

So, if you don't mind my asking, are you sure of what you say? Can you
check it one more time?

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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Old March 8th 10, 09:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Tim Meddick
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Default Infotip on removable storage media

Ken, despite what [some] other people may say about me, I do make quite an effort to
see that what I post is firmly grounded in fact.

I spent some time looking at the effect when I answered this post, but have noticed
it before and found it very annoying.

I have made many customizations to XP by "hacking" my way around the registry but, as
yet, have not found a way of making Removable Drives display "Total size" and "Free
space" as an "InfoTip" as is the case with Fixed Disks. But I am still searching....

Indeed, Win7 seems to be accomplished in the little "fixes" XP needed!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:41:36 -0000, "Tim Meddick"
wrote:


I cannot tell you how to accomplish what you want.

But I can tell you that both the effect that Removable Drives [Class] do not
display
Total and Free Space (as InfoTips) and that the option to Make Partition Active
should be greyed out in Disk Management.

Both of these behaviours is normal if undesirable.

I too think; "why shouldn't free-space be displayed on Removable Drives, just as
it
is on fixed disks?"

But the facts are that they aren't.



Interesting. I had never noticed this, so I wanted to check it. I
don't have an XP machine handy to check it on, so I only checked in
Windows 7. In Windows 7, free space is displayed on removable drive,
just as with fixed ones.

So, if you don't mind my asking, are you sure of what you say? Can you
check it one more time?

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Please Reply to the Newsgroup


  #20  
Old March 8th 10, 10:04 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Ken Blake, MVP
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Default Infotip on removable storage media

On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 20:23:03 -0000, "Tim Meddick"
wrote:

Ken, despite what [some] other people may say about me, I do make quite an effort to
see that what I post is firmly grounded in fact.



Tim, I'm sure you do. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Nevertheless,
if you're like me, you can make a mistake occasionally; none of us is
perfect. Because Windows 7 was unlike what you said XP was, I simply
asked whether you were sure you hadn't made a mistake.

But thank you for verifying it.


I spent some time looking at the effect when I answered this post, but have noticed
it before and found it very annoying.

I have made many customizations to XP by "hacking" my way around the registry but, as
yet, have not found a way of making Removable Drives display "Total size" and "Free
space" as an "InfoTip" as is the case with Fixed Disks. But I am still searching....

Indeed, Win7 seems to be accomplished in the little "fixes" XP needed!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:41:36 -0000, "Tim Meddick"
wrote:


I cannot tell you how to accomplish what you want.

But I can tell you that both the effect that Removable Drives [Class] do not
display
Total and Free Space (as InfoTips) and that the option to Make Partition Active
should be greyed out in Disk Management.

Both of these behaviours is normal if undesirable.

I too think; "why shouldn't free-space be displayed on Removable Drives, just as
it
is on fixed disks?"

But the facts are that they aren't.



Interesting. I had never noticed this, so I wanted to check it. I
don't have an XP machine handy to check it on, so I only checked in
Windows 7. In Windows 7, free space is displayed on removable drive,
just as with fixed ones.

So, if you don't mind my asking, are you sure of what you say? Can you
check it one more time?

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Please Reply to the Newsgroup


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Please Reply to the Newsgroup
 




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