Useful add-on for Windows

[Roger Fink]

Most '98ers have probably made their peace with this, but for anybody who,
like myself, continues to be dumbfounded that Microsoft elected to put the
New Folder function in the Windows Explorer drop down menu rather than the
context menu, "New Folder Here" is a nice freeware fix:

http://www.downloadjunction.com/product/store/288/index.html

I know download sites like this one are frowned upon, but the author of this
fix, on his own site, has recently elected to bundle it with several others
in a larger download. Two days after installation in W2K, and after one
virus scan and spyware scan, no problems or unintended consequences to
report.

If you determine that it isn't the Holy Grail, you can uninstall it through
add/remove, and it can also be disabled by unchecking the box that must be
checked to enable it in the first place.

 

[thanatoid]

"Roger Fink" <fink@manana.org> wrote in
news:uuntm1i2HHA.4400@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> Most '98ers have probably made their peace with this, but
> for anybody who, like myself, continues to be dumbfounded
> that Microsoft elected to put the New Folder function in
> the Windows Explorer drop down menu rather than the context
> menu, "New Folder Here" is a nice freeware fix:
>
> http://www.downloadjunction.com/product/store/288/index.html

Even better, forget the torture device known as Windows
Explorer, and download a real file manager like Total Commander
(formerly known as Windows Commander but guess what happened)
where the above is achieved by pressing F7. Not to mention
built-in FTP, very comprehensive rename utility, "lap-link" like
utility, file compare, directory compare, crc's, decodes and
encodes, and hundreds of other features WE can't even DREAM of
(since it is retarded and has no imagination). It's about $35
IIRC and it was the best $35 I ever spent. (It will work forever
in full demo mode as well.)

> I know download sites like this one are frowned upon,

WHY? If not for sites like those, we would be completely
helpless against the idiotic Windows GUI and MS's "our way is
better and you have no choice anyway" attitude.

> but
> the author of this fix, on his own site, has recently
> elected to bundle it with several others in a larger
> download. Two days after installation in W2K, and after one
> virus scan and spyware scan, no problems or unintended
> consequences to report.

And WHY should there be?

<SNIP>

--
"This is not nuclear. This is just a test."
- illyria

 

[Roger Fink]

[snip]

Even better, forget the torture device known as Windows
Explorer

[snip]

I usually use Powerdesk 98, which similarly benefits from this install.

 

[Tony]

On 09 Aug 2007 04:30:48 GMT, thanatoid <waiting@the.exit.invalid>
wrote:

>Even better, forget the torture device known as Windows
>Explorer, and download a real file manager like Total Commander

Hi thanatoid

Cheers for that, thought I had most of the non-MS software but that
one had escaped me. Looks good

Best regards

Tony

 

[thanatoid]

Tony <Tony.Yarwood@XXXfreeuk.com> wrote in
news:5tclb39jfe6v59l81b683u9ct6utonak5t@4ax.com:

> On 09 Aug 2007 04:30:48 GMT, thanatoid
> <waiting@the.exit.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Even better, forget the torture device known as Windows
>>Explorer, and download a real file manager like Total
>>Commander
>
> Hi thanatoid
>
> Cheers for that, thought I had most of the non-MS software
> but that one had escaped me. Looks good
>
> Best regards
>
> Tony
>

Happy to help. I keep on discovering new useful features almost
every week, and I've had it for about 3 years! It is the BEST.

t.

--
"This is not nuclear. This is just a test."
- illyria