right click folder corner

[auser]

You can no longer right click the upper right hand corner of an open folder
to get a context menu (it functions the same as a left click.) That is
REALLY annoying. I have to go up a folder just so I can right click it?

Go ahead... tell me it's a security issue.

 

[Chad Harris]

Auser--

I'm going ahead. It ain't no security issue.

Open folder>right click the folder icon in the lower left hand corner of the
folder. (
Right/Left is my mnemonic--but why the hell is there an "n" in that word?

You'll get a context menu and if you follow this direction you'll see over
130 categories for an explorer folder you can use. I use Name and Last
Modified basically.

One of the advantages but poorly advertised and explained features of
Windows Explorer folders in Vista is the ability to right click the icon at
the lower left of a folder>then using that context menu you bring up>

1) Go to the bottom of the folder on the left where if you create a new
folder on your desktop there will be a new folder icon in the lower left
corner or if like I always do you substitute one of thousands of favicons in
your favicon collection or one of thousands of icons native to Windows
Vista, it's .dlls, .exes, and its downloaded programs and zip files via the
Change or Modify Icon dialogue box. If you have named the folder it will
have the name of the folder. If you have subbed an icon for the folder,
that icon will be there.

2) Right click that folder or icon and in the categories listed there that
look like this:

Sort By
Group By
Stack By

Name
Date Modified
Type
Size
Ascending
Descending

More

Click MORE and you will have the opportunity to customize and choose and
TAILOR WHICH OF OVER 120 column headings you want to confer on whichever
view you then choose and whichever way you choose to sort, group, or stack.

The way I do it because it works for me and is analagous to the Show in
Groups that was brought in during Windows XP is to go up to name where y ou
can choose

Sort
Group
Stack by Name

and I choose Stck by Name because this is analagous to the bold headings of
an index in a book except that they are headings now in Vista and I would
have made them more bold. By name means they will be grouped alphabetically
and then for the column headings I want, I do what I described above.

For my downloads folder, I choose Sort by "Date Modified" or I just do that
after a download so that I can easily locate many of the non-ituitively
named downloads with characters and less obvious names on them.

CH

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

You can no longer right click the upper right hand corner of an open
folder to get a context menu (it functions the same as a left click.) That
is REALLY annoying. I have to go up a folder just so I can right click it?

Go ahead... tell me it's a security issue.

Well, Chad explained pretty comprehensively, but I can add that it is still
a bit annoying using the new details pane icon, as you have to make sure
that you don't have anything selected within a folder if you want the
folder's details.

You will also find that you can still close the window by double clicking
the top left corner.

ss.

 

[auser]

I can't undestand what you mean. I know about the categories. I want to view
the context menu of the folder AFTER it is already opened. If i am looking
at the folder icon of course I can right click it. But if that folder is
opened and in the forground I can't rick click the upper left hand corner of
the folder window to get the context menu. Now i have to go back to the icon
to right click it if i want the context menu.

 

[Beck]

I can't undestand what you mean. I know about the categories. I want to
view the context menu of the folder AFTER it is already opened. If i am
looking at the folder icon of course I can right click it. But if that
folder is opened and in the forground I can't rick click the upper left
hand corner of the folder window to get the context menu. Now i have to go
back to the icon to right click it if i want the context menu.

I think what he means is that the action is now done on the bottom left icon
of the folder. Look to bottom left below the folder tree and you will see a
large icon representing the current folder. If your have highlighted
another file, just click the blank space and it should go back to the
current folder. Right click that and you get your menu.

 

[auser]

I had windows classic folders selected, so i didn't see that large icon of
the folder.
Now, I understand. But I don't want that annoying ugly waste of space there.
Guess i am out of luck.

 

[mxh]

Well, Chad explained pretty comprehensively, but I can add that it is
still a bit annoying using the new details pane icon, as you have to make
sure that you don't have anything selected within a folder if you want the
folder's details.

You will also find that you can still close the window by double clicking
the top left corner.

Or by right clicking anywhere on the title bar, which gives you the same
menu as left clicking in the upper left corner:

Restore
Move
Size
Minimize
Maximize
Close

mxh

 

[auser]

That's the system menu, not the context menu for the folder.

 

[Beck]

I had windows classic folders selected, so i didn't see that large icon of
the folder.
Now, I understand. But I don't want that annoying ugly waste of space
there.
Guess i am out of luck.

If you mean the annoying waste of space is the folder tree, you can also
turn that off so your windows look a bit more classic like. In the folder,
go to organise->layout->navigation pane

 

[Beck]

I had windows classic folders selected, so i didn't see that large icon of
the folder.
Now, I understand. But I don't want that annoying ugly waste of space
there.
Guess i am out of luck.

Actually I just realised you don't need that icon. Just right click on an
empty space within the folder and you get that menu.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

That's the system menu, not the context menu for the folder.

Never heard it called teh System Menu. It's just the same menu as you get
from right clicking the taskbar icon for the window.

ss.

 

[auser]

it's not the same menu.

Actually I just realised you don't need that icon. Just right click on an
empty space within the folder and you get that menu.

 

[auser]

well, you learned something new today.

Never heard it called teh System Menu. It's just the same menu as you get
from right clicking the taskbar icon for the window.

ss.

 

[mxh]

That's the system menu, not the context menu for the folder.

But well within context to the statement I was responding to:

">>> You will also find that you can still close the window by double
clicking

 

[auser]

I follow you.. in the previous messages i mentioned i understood what you
meant.
But I don'tt like it... it's just annoying.. I don't want the details pane
at all. And you have to make sure no file is selected to see the icon, as
was already pointed out. I don't understand why it needed to be removed to
right click the upper right hand corner. They could have kept that along
with the new features. If you never used it, you would never even know it
was there. Wasn't in the way of anything.

 

[auser]

no, really, it's not. It has most of the same items, but not all. For
instance, I have winrar installed, and the context menu items that it
installs do not show up when i right click the blank space, but do when i
click the folder itself. There are other icons that also do not appear.

 

[Chad Harris]

Auser--

One thing I want to make sure you know because with the right heading *that
you want to use, it can make organization easy. Take any heading, in the
folder, say "Name" and left click at the right of it, and you'll get the
option to "group" which means "group [by name or whatever heading you have]
and see if that helps you any.

CH

 

[Alexander Suhovey]

I can confirm that.

--
Alexander Suhovey

no, really, it's not. It has most of the same items, but not all. For
instance, I have winrar installed, and the context menu items that it
installs do not show up when i right click the blank space, but do when i
click the folder itself. There are other icons that also do not appear.