Minor 7 issues

[lyron]

Apologies if these have been covered, but I'm unable to find solutions as of yet.

1) Default directories - some applications keep your most recent folder as the default, many do not. Example of the latter: Yahoo Mail (for attachments) when using IE8 always goes to Desktop, no matter where you have selected the previous file. Is there a solution to this?

2) In Windows Explorer, when the view is set to "Details", you can select an image and you will get a small thumbnail in the lower left. Is there a way to make that larger?

3) What's the best way of getting a "classic" look, particularly in folders and in the taskbar? I often can't tell which if the tasks is in the foreground because the difference in tint from it to the tasks in the background is so slight.

Thanks very much in advance -

BS

 

[Jacee]

2) In Windows Explorer, when the view is set to "Details", you can select an image and you will get a small thumbnail in the lower left. Is there a way to make that larger?

Press the Alt key and use the scroll button on your mouse to make it larger or smaller

 

[Jacee]

Ignore my post above ... that doesn't work

 

[lyron]

Ignore my post above ... that doesn't work

It's alright, I was going to try it but would have had to dig out a mouse, since I'm working on a laptop touchpad at the moment

B

 

[karlsnooks]

Apologies if these have been covered, but I'm unable to find solutions as of yet.

1) Default directories - some applications keep your most recent folder as the default, many do not. Example of the latter: Yahoo Mail (for attachments) when using IE8 always goes to Desktop, no matter where you have selected the previous file. Is there a solution to this?
I do not know. Don't use yahoo but the browser forum can probably help you.

2) In Windows Explorer, when the view is set to "Details", you can select an image and you will get a small thumbnail in the lower left. Is there a way to make that larger?
NO.

3) What's the best way of getting a "classic" look, particularly in folders and in the taskbar? I often can't tell which if the tasks is in the foreground because the difference in tint from it to the tasks in the background is so slight.

Select another theme. Right-click on empty spot on desktop | choose Personalize | click on an interesting Theme
Notice that you can also choose the Window Color of the theme.


Thanks very much in advance -

BS

Does this help?

 

[nailgunner]

2) In Windows Explorer, when the view is set to "Details", you can select an image and you will get a small thumbnail in the lower left. Is there a way to make that larger?


BS

Yes you can. I have mine in "aero" mode, so that might make a difference. But if you put your cursor over the dividing point at the 2 screens, the cursor turns into an arrow, drag it up and the picture does get bigger.

 

[karlsnooks]

nailgunner,

True. I'd never tried it with an Explorer window, but I see that it also works there.

 

[nailgunner]

nailgunner,

True. I'd never tried it with an Explorer window, but I see that it also works there.

I never had either. But I've been doing a lot of photo editing lately, and his ? made me curious, and now I wish I had known earlier. It's not a big deal, but it's better than the tiny default size.

 

[lyron]

2) In Windows Explorer, when the view is set to "Details", you can select an image and you will get a small thumbnail in the lower left. Is there a way to make that larger?


B

Yes you can. I have mine in "aero" mode, so that might make a difference. But if you put your cursor over the dividing point at the 2 screens, the cursor turns into an arrow, drag it up and the picture does get bigger.

Perfect - so simple it makes me feel like a complete oaf, I had never thought about trying that. But the point is that it's fixed and I can now identify my photos at a glance -

Thanks -

B

 

[mitchell65]

It does in fact work in all the themes, not just Aero!

 

[nailgunner]

Perfect - so simple it makes me feel like a complete oaf, I had never thought about trying that. But the point is that it's fixed and I can now identify my photos at a glance -

Thanks -

B

YOU feel like a complete oaf? As I said earlier, I have been doing some family photo editing. Have just wrapped up the 6 month project. Since I prefer the detail view to a thumbnail one, the expanded viewing area would have come in handy a lot sooner than at the end of my project. You can feel like an oaf, but I'm reserving the complete title for myself.

In any event, glad to have helped.

 

[lyron]

Perfect - so simple it makes me feel like a complete oaf, I had never thought about trying that. But the point is that it's fixed and I can now identify my photos at a glance -

Thanks -

B

YOU feel like a complete oaf? As I said earlier, I have been doing some family photo editing. Have just wrapped up the 6 month project. Since I prefer the detail view to a thumbnail one, the expanded viewing area would have come in handy a lot sooner than at the end of my project. You can feel like an oaf, but I'm reserving the complete title for myself.

In any event, glad to have helped.

It just blows my mind at how many thousands of times I've respaced tiles/windows by sliding boundaries side-to-side (as well as up-and-down in mail clients, etc.) that I didn't try something that should have been so natural - so I am demanding the title of "co-oaf"

B

 

[Layback Bear]

Well I'm a oaf also because I didn't know that easy fix either. Tried it and it works just fine.