Annoying Windows Problems

[Kitsune]

Someone, sometime ago, had an answer to my question of "how do you select 'No To All' at Windows prompts" question. I was amazed someone had a solution to this, so I'm hoping maybe someone has come across this problem and knows the trick:

In any 'Save As' window, the file listing is always ordered backwards from Z to A. To fix it, I have to switch from the default "list mode" to "details" and then click the filename sort to correct it. The problem is that it never stays this way in future 'Save As' window openings. I have no idea how it got this way, no other explorer windows do this, and I can't seem to figure out how to fix it. Explorer's "Folder Options -> View -> Apply this view to All Folders" doesn't affect it.

Extra oddity: the 'Save As' window orders the Desktop and 'My Computer' (local/mapped drive listing) from A-Z, but drive and folder contents are always Z-A!

[BigV]

fer cryin out loud man. the war in iraq, global warming and slippery wiimotes are not enough for you?! you have to go piling on with "Annoying Windows Problems"??! There's yer four horsemen right there! Game over!

[BigV]

Ok. Listen. The save as windows are distinct from Windows explorer. They're only pointing to the same computer/resource coincidentally. The display mode of Windows explorer is set in windows explorer under tools -- folder -- options view, etc. In an application, the display mode of the file dialog is set in that application.

Open, say, Word. type some stuff. now, file -- save as. the dialog box displays the location and the contents in *some* way. Change that way, using the little view icon thingy. Close the dialog box. Close the application (word). Now reopen it. type some more stuff. choose file -- save as. How does it display? *for me* it displays in the same way it did the last time it was opened. Set it and forget it.

[Kitsune]

the war in iraq, global warming and slippery wiimotes are not enough for you?!

Dude, all of those are silly things of no consequence. This is the OS I have to use at work. By force. A Microsoft OS. This is serious.

Originally Posted by BigV

In an application, the display mode of the file dialog is set in that application.

For everything from IE and Firefox's "Save As..." to Winamp's "Open File...", they all display Z-A by default each and every time. This tells me it is a common setting in Explorer.

Originally Posted by BigV

Open, say, Word. type some stuff. now, file -- save as. the dialog box displays the location and the contents in *some* way.

Ah! Word 2003 displays correctly, but the dialog box is different from other applications. It does not share the same settings as the other 'standard' file dialog boxes. Uh...wha? Who engineered this junk?

Originally Posted by BigV

Change that way, using the little view icon thingy. Close the dialog box. Close the application (word). Now reopen it. type some more stuff. choose file -- save as. How does it display? *for me* it displays in the same way it did the last time it was opened. Set it and forget it.

Under Word with its specialized dialog box that has preview functionality, etc, yes. Under everything else that uses the standard Explorer 'Save As'/'Open...' dialog box, the changes don't stick.

Word on top (scrolled slightly to show order), standard dialog on the bottom.

[Perry Winkle]

that's pretty f'n weird

i'm unemployed so I don't have access to Windows to try and figure it out...sowwy.

[BigV]

ok, have mercy on the bricks there big fella...

now that the question has been clarified, I'll work on it. FF? ok. IE (retch), I'll check. winamp (don't have it, but I get the idea...)

working on it... sb1

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by BigV

now that the question has been clarified, I'll work on it.

I just wanted to know if anyone knew where the setting was in the registry or if anyone had run across this problem before. You certainly don't have to burn up your time working on it.

But if you have a trouble ticket number for this, I'd appreciate it. :p

Use Linux!

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by Raelian1

Use Linux!

Uh, thanks, but that isn't a possibility.

[Ibby]

That's nothing.

With my new video card, to turn off my computer, i have to go into Hardware Settings and UNINSTALL the video card before I shut down.
If I don't, the video card doesnt work when I restart the computer, so i have to uninstall it anyway, then reboot AGAIN and reinstall.

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by Ibram

With my new video card, to turn off my computer, i have to go into Hardware Settings and UNINSTALL the video card before I shut down.
If I don't, the video card doesnt work when I restart the computer, so i have to uninstall it anyway, then reboot AGAIN and reinstall.

That's awesome. And that's why I use Windows in a VM.