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You wouldn't believe how many people have emailed me with regard to my previous blog about an amazingly cool and useful trick with Windows 7 . The best thing is that someone solved a problem that's been nagging me for ages...   Seriously, people in the building in which I have my office keep on sticking their heads in the door, giving me the "thumbs up," and saying "That is really useful!"   But that's not what I wanted to talk about here. At the end of my earlier blog I noted that I had a nagging problem. I think I said something like:   You know that when you open a folder you can display its contents as Icons (small, medium, large, etc.), or as a List, or as a Detailed view, or as Tiles, and so forth. My problem is that if I make a change in one folder, that change seems to apply to every folder I subsequently access. What I want to be able to do is to make all of my folders display the Details view by default, but to be able to set selected folders to always display in icons.   There has to be some way to do this, because the Pictures folder always opens up displaying icons (as do its daughter folders), no matter what your other folders are set to ... so how can I do this with other folders containing images that aren't located under the Pictures folder? Any ideas?   The way I'd been trying to do this was to use the Change your view icon when you are actually inside a folder – you know, the icon indicated by the red circle in the image below: When you click this icon you are presented with a pop-up menu of options as shown below. For most of my folders I prefer to see things in either the List or (more usually) the Details view, but in the case of folders I use to store images (like the ones in this blog) I prefer to see these as ... well, images. As I said, the problem with using the Change your view icon technique to change the view in one folder is that it seems to affect every subsequent folder, which is a real pain. So how can we work around this?   Well, my old chum Chris Lewis in the UK saw my earlier blog and sent me a message saying:   * Right-mouse-click on a folder * Select Properties * Click the Customize tab * Change the Optimize this folder for setting * Click or un-click Apply this template to sub-folders button   "Well, that seems easy enough," I thought to myself, "in fact it seems downright obvious... I can't believe I didn't try accessing and changing the folder Properties this way myself." But I shrugged my shoulders and did as Chris suggested... and immediately discovered why I hadn't worked this out for myself... because there was no Customize tab on my dialog. All I had was the General , Sharing , Security , and Previous Version tabs as shown below:   "How strange," I thought to myself (or words to that effect). I emailed Chris asking exactly what operating system he was using, and he replied "I am using Windows 7 Home Premium and I see General, Sharing, Security, Previous Versions, and Customize tabs."   So I checked my system and I too am running the Windows 7 Home Premium edition. Now my head was starting to hurt. I kept on checking and rechecking the Properties dialog associated with my folders in the desperate hope that the Customize tab would magically appear... but, of course, it didn't (sob sob).   Then I received another message from Chris, and this is the one that saved the day. He had realized that if you use the Libraries icon on your desktop to access your folders (which is what I was doing), then when you select the Properties dialog associated with a folder the Customize tab DOES NOT show up.   However... if you use the Computer icon on your desktop and then select Drive C and then select Users and then select My Documents and work your way down to the folder of interest, then accessing the Properties dialog associated with a folder this way DOES result in your seeing the Customize tab as illustrated below:   Ah Ha! Clicking the down arrow on the field associated with the Optimize this folder for setting provides you with the ability to select between General Items , Documents , Pictures , Music , and Videos as illustrated below:     I've now associated the Pictures option with all of my folders containing images, and everything is working as I wished. Of course this does all seem to be a little convoluted. I'm wondering if the lack of the Optimize tab when you go in via the Libraries icon is a bug in Windows 7 ... what do you think?

You wouldn't believe how many people have emailed me with regard to my previous blog about an amazingly cool and useful trick with Windows 7 . The best thing is that someone solved a problem that's been nagging me for ages...   Seriously, people in the building in which I have my office keep on sticking their heads in the door, giving me the "thumbs up," and saying "That is really useful!"   But that's not what I wanted to talk about here. At the end of my earlier blog I noted that I had a nagging problem. I think I said something like:   You know that when you open a folder you can display its contents as Icons (small, medium, large, etc.), or as a List, or as a Detailed view, or as Tiles, and so forth. My problem is that if I make a change in one folder, that change seems to apply to every folder I subsequently access. What I want to be able to do is to make all of my folders display the Details view by default, but to be able to set selected folders to always display in icons.   There has to be some way to do this, because the Pictures folder always opens up displaying icons (as do its daughter folders), no matter what your other folders are set to ... so how can I do this with other folders containing images that aren't located under the Pictures folder? Any ideas?   The way I'd been trying to do this was to use the Change your view icon when you are actually inside a folder – you know, the icon indicated by the red circle in the image below: When you click this icon you are presented with a pop-up menu of options as shown below. For most of my folders I prefer to see things in either the List or (more usually) the Details view, but in the case of folders I use to store images (like the ones in this blog) I prefer to see these as ... well, images. As I said, the problem with using the Change your view icon technique to change the view in one folder is that it seems to affect every subsequent folder, which is a real pain. So how can we work around this?   Well, my old chum Chris Lewis in the UK saw my earlier blog and sent me a message saying:   * Right-mouse-click on a folder * Select Properties * Click the Customize tab * Change the Optimize this folder for setting * Click or un-click Apply this template to sub-folders button   "Well, that seems easy enough," I thought to myself, "in fact it seems downright obvious... I can't believe I didn't try accessing and changing the folder Properties this way myself." But I shrugged my shoulders and did as Chris suggested... and immediately discovered why I hadn't worked this out for myself... because there was no Customize tab on my dialog. All I had was the General , Sharing , Security , and Previous Version tabs as shown below:   "How strange," I thought to myself (or words to that effect). I emailed Chris asking exactly what operating system he was using, and he replied "I am using Windows 7 Home Premium and I see General, Sharing, Security, Previous Versions, and Customize tabs."   So I checked my system and I too am running the Windows 7 Home Premium edition. Now my head was starting to hurt. I kept on checking and rechecking the Properties dialog associated with my folders in the desperate hope that the Customize tab would magically appear... but, of course, it didn't (sob sob).   Then I received another message from Chris, and this is the one that saved the day. He had realized that if you use the Libraries icon on your desktop to access your folders (which is what I was doing), then when you select the Properties dialog associated with a folder the Customize tab DOES NOT show up.   However... if you use the Computer icon on your desktop and then select Drive C and then select Users and then select My Documents and work your way down to the folder of interest, then accessing the Properties dialog associated with a folder this way DOES result in your seeing the Customize tab as illustrated below:   Ah Ha! Clicking the down arrow on the field associated with the Optimize this folder for setting provides you with the ability to select between General Items , Documents , Pictures , Music , and Videos as illustrated below:     I've now associated the Pictures option with all of my folders containing images, and everything is working as I wished. Of course this does all seem to be a little convoluted. I'm wondering if the lack of the Optimize tab when you go in via the Libraries icon is a bug in Windows 7 ... what do you think?  

Someone showed me an amazingly cool trick with Windows 7 that's going to save me a whole bunch of time (and frustration) in the days, weeks, months, and years to come...   I was just chatting to my chum Nick in my office. He had heard the news about the size of my... wait for it, wait for it... new 28-inch monitor and he had come to feast his eyes on the little scamp.   We ended up chatting about the fact that I would ideally like two or even three of these monitors to form a huge desktop so that I could have lots of documents and images visible at the same time, but as far as I know there's no way to do this with my Sony VAIO notebook computer (unless you know different).   While we were talking about this-and-that, I happened to be messing around trying to align two Word documents side-by-side. I'm sure you've done the same thing yourself. You start with the first document by clicking the Restore Down button as it's now called (the one just to the left of the red 'X' button in the upper right-hand corner of the window.   Next, you mess around dragging the various corners of the Word document until it occupies about half of the screen. Then you repeat the process with your second Word document (or some other application). I do this sort of thing a lot. It isn't difficult – it takes only a few seconds – but there is invariably a bit of messing around tweaking the dimensions of the two windows trying to get everything "just right."   But WAIT! Instead of dragging the various corners of the Word window around, Nick showed me this really cool trick. All you do is use your mouse to grab the title bar of the window (move the mouse cursor over the title bar then press-and-hold the left mouse button) and drag the window to the right-hand side of the screen. As soon as the mouse cursor "hits" the side of the screen, the Word window automatically adjusts itself to fill the right-hand side of the display.   Similarly, if you drag an application window to the left, as soon as the mouse cursor "hits" the side of the screen, the window automatically adjusts itself to fill the left-hand side of the display.   How cool! This is so simple yet so useful. It's also made me realise that it really doesn't take much to make me happy, because I'm grinning from ear-to-ear as I pen these words :-)   Help! Having said all of this, there is still something that is puzzling me with regard to Windows 7. You know that when you open a folder you can display its contents as Icons (small, medium, large, etc.), as a List, as a Detailed view, as Tiles, and so forth.   My problem is that if I make a change in one folder, that change seems to apply to every folder I subsequently access. What I want to be able to do is to make all of my folders display the Details view by default, but to be able to set selected folders to always display in icons.   There has to be some way to do this, because the Pictures folder (and its daughter folders) always opens up displaying icons, no matter what your other folders are set to ... so how do I do this to other folders containing images that aren't located under the Pictures folder?   Any ideas?  

Someone showed me an amazingly cool trick with Windows 7 that's going to save me a whole bunch of time (and frustration) in the days, weeks, months, and years to come...   I was just chatting to my chum Nick in my office. He had heard the news about the size of my... wait for it, wait for it... new 28-inch monitor and he had come to feast his eyes on the little scamp.   We ended up chatting about the fact that I would ideally like two or even three of these monitors to form a huge desktop so that I could have lots of documents and images visible at the same time, but as far as I know there's no way to do this with my Sony VAIO notebook computer (unless you know different).   While we were talking about this-and-that, I happened to be messing around trying to align two Word documents side-by-side. I'm sure you've done the same thing yourself. You start with the first document by clicking the Restore Down button as it's now called (the one just to the left of the red 'X' button in the upper right-hand corner of the window.   Next, you mess around dragging the various corners of the Word document until it occupies about half of the screen. Then you repeat the process with your second Word document (or some other application). I do this sort of thing a lot. It isn't difficult – it takes only a few seconds – but there is invariably a bit of messing around tweaking the dimensions of the two windows trying to get everything "just right."   But WAIT! Instead of dragging the various corners of the Word window around, Nick showed me this really cool trick. All you do is use your mouse to grab the title bar of the window (move the mouse cursor over the title bar then press-and-hold the left mouse button) and drag the window to the right-hand side of the screen. As soon as the mouse cursor "hits" the side of the screen, the Word window automatically adjusts itself to fill the right-hand side of the display.   Similarly, if you drag an application window to the left, as soon as the mouse cursor "hits" the side of the screen, the window automatically adjusts itself to fill the left-hand side of the display.   How cool! This is so simple yet so useful. It's also made me realize that it really doesn't take much to make me happy, because I'm grinning from ear-to-ear as I pen these words :-)   Help! Having said all of this, there is still something that is puzzling me with regard to Windows 7. You know that when you open a folder you can display its contents as Icons (small, medium, large, etc.), as a List, as a Detailed view, as Tiles, and so forth.   My problem is that if I make a change in one folder, that change seems to apply to every folder I subsequently access. What I want to be able to do is to make all of my folders display the Details view by default, but to be able to set selected folders to always display in icons.   There has to be some way to do this, because the Pictures folder (and its daughter folders) always opens up displaying icons, no matter what your other folders are set to ... so how do I do this to other folders containing images that aren't located under the Pictures folder?   Any ideas?