XP's photo folder options gone in Vista(?)

[Gary R.]

When I insert a media card from my camera in the reader in XP, I chose the
autoplay option "Open folder to view files" as the default, and when it
opened the folder, there were a series of links on the left side, for things
like copy, move, burn to CD, etc.

This worked great, as I'd just select them all, click the "copy" link and a
browse box would open with my default new photos folder right
there...remembered from the last visit.

Now, in Vista I choose the same "open folder" option and the choices aren't
there. I looked through all the folder properties that I could find, and
could find no way to change it to that handy special-folder type
configuration from XP. Now, I have to select all and copy, and then have to
open another explorer window to browse to my new photos folder; and of
course, it's not there, selected by default when I do it that way.

While it's only one more annoyance and a little unnecessary effort, why on
earth would they have done away with this feature? I can't help but feel
that it's still there, somewhere hidden, and I could make that folder
default to the old photo folder type with links etc. Any ideas? All
suggestions appreciated.

Gary

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

What was known as the Common Tasks pane has been removed for Vista.
Surprisingly, I heard more complaints about it than praise. I always thought
it somewhat useful, but I guess that was not the common consensus.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Keith Miller \(MVP\)]

You could put a shortcut to your New Photos folder in the Sendto folder.
Then you could select all, right-click, Send To -> New Photos.

You could also put a shortcut to New Photos in the Favorite Links pane in
Explorer.

 

[Gary R.]

You could put a shortcut to your New Photos folder in the Sendto folder.
Then you could select all, right-click, Send To -> New Photos.

You could also put a shortcut to New Photos in the Favorite Links pane in
Explorer.

Thanks, I didn't think about using the 'sendto', but that should work. Now
if I can just find the sendto folder again 8^). (put notepad in it a few
days ago, but I had a time finding it).

I hadn't even noticed or ever used a 'favorite links' pane, I'll "explore"
that option also.

Gary

 

[Bob]

Press Winkey+r. Type shell:sendto and press enter.