View Folder in List view with no names?

[Ed]

Is there any way to view a Folder window in List view with no names to the
files? I tried renaming the files by deleting the names and by renaming
them to <single space>, but none of that worked. All the files will be
shortcuts, by the way.

Ed

 

[Bob I]

You would need to use a non printable character for the name to make
this work.

like "ALT+0160" just hold down ALT key and punch in 0160 on the Number pad

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Create a folder or shortcut without a name
http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t187826.html

Hit Alt + 0160 instead of typing a space.

You will find that you can only have one file per folder with that name.

Cannot rename XXXX: A file with the name you specified already exists.
Specify a different file name.

Is there any way to view a Folder window in List view with no names to the
files?

What would be the point of that in List view?

List view displays the contents of a folder as a list of file or folder
names preceded by small icons. This view is useful if your folder contains
many files and you want to scan the list for a file name. You can sort your
files and folders in this view; however, you cannot display your files in
groups.

You can remove the filenames in in Thumbnail View.

To turn off filenames, hold down the Shift key when you click to open a
folder in Windows Explorer or when you switch into thumbnail view. This will
turn of the file names, giving more space for the thumbnails. Doing it again
turns them back on.

You can right click a folder that is set for Thumbnail view,
hold down the Shift key and click on Open. If the file and folder names
were displayed, they won't be now.

With the folder open, click View and change it to anything,
except Thumbnails. Now, hold down the Shift key, click View and click
Thumbnails. File and folder names should not be displayed now.

This is a feature that allows for more thumbnails to be displayed on the
screen at one time.

On my machine in Full Screen view (F11) without Common Tasks or the Folders
pane showing, I can get six columns and five full rows to display without
the names. I can get six columns and four full rows to display with the
names. That is 30 thumbnails displayed without the names compared to 24
thumbnails displayed with the names. Depending on what you're doing, this
can have its advantages.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Bob I]

Hi Wes,

But you may name the second one with

ALT+0160Alt+0160

and so on, resulting in many "un-named" files/folder.

HTH

 

[Ed]

Hi, Wesley.

What would be the point of that in List view?

List view displays the contents of a folder as a list of file or folder
names preceded by small icons.

What I'm trying to achieve is a folder that contains shortcuts to several
frequently-used files and programs that I can access as required. The
workplace upgraded to Office 2003 so the shortcut bar is gone (and I am not
allowed to do any of the workarounds!), and I don't want to stuff all of
these into the Quick Launch, so this was my next best attempt. List view
gives me the small icons I want. I can make this narrow and tall, and get
away from the names, but I can't do short and wide because the names keep
pushing the other icons too far over. I was hoping there was something like
the Details where I could simply turn off the names (which I can't in
Details, either), but in Details I can't do the short and wide.

Just a thought - nothing "mission critical".

Ed

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

You would need to use a non printable character for the name to make
this work.

like "ALT+0160" just hold down ALT key and punch in 0160 on the
Number pad

That's not quite good enough. You can do that with a single file, but you
can't create multiple files in the same folder, all with the same name.

You could give each file a name consisting of a different number of
alt+0160s

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Bob, I find files and folders hard enough to keep track of with *real*
names. Let alone one space, two spaces, etc. LOL

A path like this C:\ \ \ \ \ .txt is tough to read. LOL

OK, first navigate to " ".
Then navigate to " ".
Then navigate to " ".
Then navigate to " ".
Then double click on .txt

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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Bob I]

Yes, I suppose you could nest them too. But then you can name them ALL
"ALT+0160".(and then hide extensions too! ;-)) But I meant all in one
folder. Then it would be similar to the "thumbs" without names.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

At least with thumbnails you can see what the file is. A picture of the
file, as it were. ;-)

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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Wesley Vogel]

Try renaming the shortcuts to something shorter that you can remember what
they mean, Ed.

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