Common tasks are wrong
norman...@comcast.net
left is supposed to say "Picture Tasks"--and it usually does. But quite
often it says "Music Tasks". Why is this happening and how do I fix it so
jpeg-only folders show picture tasks?
Thanks,
Norm Strong
Ayush
Right click the folder and choose Properties > Go to Customize tab and select the
correct Folder Template
Click OK
Good Luck, Ayush.
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XP-Tips [Create personal screensaver using your photos] :
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/tips/diyscreensaver.mspx
RalfG
list and background image (happens frequently here), open Windows Explorer
from the Accessories folder and highlight "Desktop" in the left hand column.
From the menu select Tools->Folder Options->View tab and then click on the
button labeled "Reset all Folders". Click Apply then Ok. The special folders
should be back to normal again the next time you open those folders.
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nemo
"Ayush" <"ayushmaan.j[aatt]gmail.com"> wrote in message
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Only been using XP since the end of March. There's a lot that's impressive
and a lot, I'm afraid, that's utter crap!
I tried the Folder Template thing meself just now to see what templates are
available and what they did. Not impressed.
If you find the damned stupid list that comes up on the left hand side as
irritating as I did, go to Tools > Folder Options > 'Use Windows classic
folders' to put things back as they were.
Sorry my first post is a <rant!>, but here goes . .
That's something I hate about XP. There are a number of good extra
facilities available, but you can't use them without some daft change being
made to something else that you don't want, or they've left something dead
simple out that would have been extremely useful because they just didn't
think of it - like in the Picture and FAX Viewer.
Didn't it occur to anyone at M$ that it'd be damned useful when sorting
thousands of images to be able to drag an image displayed in the viewer into
another folder or at least have the viewer highlight in the source folder
the image it's currently displaying? When sorting and collating tens of GB
of images, these facilities would have been astonishingly useful.
AND - if a tuppeny-ha'penny little program like Ixla Explorer given away
free with cheap digital cameras years ago can have these facilities, why the
hell didn't they occur to M$??
And . . . whose daft idea was it to change New Folder etc. from Right-Click
N F to bloody Right-Click W F? Sometimes I think M$ do this sort of thing
deliberately out of sheer bloody-mindedness!
and . . . How do I get folders to come up in List view at a sensible size
every time, instead of huge great things that take up a whole quarter of the
22" screen, even where they only contain half a dozen files?
The system seems to cotton on to this with folders in the form of narrow
columns, and even remembers the screen layout - like my main image sorting
screen with four such columns full of target folders, the source folders at
bottom right and the Pic and FAX Viewer as a small window at top right.
One good thing. At least the damned stupid red bloodhound that appeared in
the Search interface disappeared when it was told to. Trouble is though, the
new Search interface is total and utter crap with a whole list of design
faults and bugs. The old one wasn't broke, so why did they have to try to
fix it and come up with this user hostile abortion?
Even when you set the column widths numerically they go back to default when
you search again, even when you've left the Search program up and running!
The Windows 98 one was much better. It's an utter pain when, like I had, you
have a huge amount of downloaded stuff on CDs from an old computer to
collate. Is there any freeware, I wonder, that does the same job with less
user-hostility?
Heaven knows what Vista must be like. I read enough about it on the BBC
website when it first came out to decide me upon looking for a machine that
still had XP on it. Did me a favour in a way because I found the older model
of the Hewlett Packard top of the range Media Centre PC going at less than
half price.
And the Media Centre software? Yuk! What bloody use is it?? There must be
some hidden menus I haven't found yet. One example: When I listen to the
radio on it, it records what I'm listening to without me telling it, and if
I stop it recording, the audio cuts off - and I can't for the life of me
find where it stores the recordings. What's the bloody point of that?
Surely one of M$'s flagship products can't be as crap as this?
</rant!>
Nemo the newbie - well here at least.
PS: I paid for the new PC with XP on it out of an occupational pension lump
sum. Before I reached 60 I was out of work for the best part of seven years
and not even two excellent intensive admin courses helped to land me a nice
cushy office job.
On a few other groups I frequent I complained bitterly once or twice about
this and later, I also happened to moan a bit about the amount of time it
was taking to collate the stuff transferred to the new PC's huuuuge hard
drives from the large number of CDs I'd downloaded over the years on my old
PC - with its magnificent 'capacious' 6.4GB hard drive, as one contemporary
review put it! :o))))
One wag came up with a very smart answer. He said, "Well you've been moaning
about not being able to get an office job for seven years - and now you've
retired, you've bloody got one!!"
Kelly
Documents, etc) has lost its name, lost its icon, or has the wrong Task Pane
template, how can I get it back?
Folders - Special
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_f.htm#xp_folders_special
For reasons unknown, some users find that drives or system folders display
the wrong tasks relative to the folder contents. The C: drive may display
music tasks; The 'My Music' folder may display picture tasks, etc. While
user-created folders allow access to the 'Customize' tab in the 'Properties'
dialog, drives and system folders do not give you this option.
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_common_tasks.htm
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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)
Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
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