One thing I don't like about Vista is the keyboard access in Windows
Explorer. In XP, you could press TAB repeatedly to cycle through all
the different focus areas: Folder, files, <disappears>, address bar.
Having 3 or 4 areas means you're never far from where you want to be.
Press tab once or twice and you're good.

In Vista, you have to press TAB 7 or more times! This is because it
cycles through all the other areas, like column headings (to sort),
etc. Now I understand that they are making it "accessible", in
cycling the focus to the column header, etc. But it inconveniences me
many times a day!

What solution am I hoping for? Ideally, some key other than tab would
just cycle between folders, files and address bar (the commonly used
areas). Or there would be some option to disable the focus going
elsewhere.

Another annoying thing with Explorer is that whenever I alt-tab away
from the explorer window and then go back, the focus moves from the
files area to one of the column headings. So I have to press shift-
tab twice to get back to the files (or tab 5 or more times). And
sometimes the focus looks like its on the folders, but pressing tab
doesn't get you to the files area; you have to press tab about 4
times! Is this a bug? It's so annoying because I use this all the
time.

Is there some logic to all this, or is it just a bug?

The other keyboard annoyance is using F2 to rename. It's actually a
really nice feature that it highlights only the main part of the
filename, and not the extension, since you usually don't want to
rename the extension. But I use F2 very often to take a copy of the
filename into the clipboard so that I can paste it into a notes
document. I do this very often after I save a web page, as I like to
note the url and my chosen filename. So I have to press F2 and then
shift-end (to capture the extension too).

I'm not just ranting here. I'm hoping that someone will reveal some
hidden new Vista keyboard shortcut that I don't know about that will
solve my problems.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> One thing I don't like about Vista is the keyboard access in Windows

(snip)

You're in the wrong newsgroup. This one is for the Windows XP operating
system.

Some Vista newsgroups
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_account
microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video
microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing
microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance
microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan
microsoft.public.windows.vista.security

Malke
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