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The contextual tabs are where the real power of the Windows 8 File Explorer is to be found. Is the File Explorer growing on you?
It was mentioned in part 1 that it did not, can this be confirmed?
... the Ribbon does not display a Map Network Drive command if you select a share.
The Map Network Drive command shows up in the Ribbon when you select Computer. It does not appear in the Ribbon when you select Network nor does it appear in the Ribbon when you select a share in Network. Not sure if this is an oversight on the part of the developers or a limitation of the contextual tab feature. In any case, it seems that a Map Network Drive command would be appropriate on the Network tab.
However, there are very simple ways to Map a network drive. First, if you right click on a share in Network, you'll see a Map Network Drive command on the context menu. Second, you can add the Map Network Drive command to File Explorer's Quick Access toolbar. Just right click the Map Network Drive command in Computer and select the Add to Quick Access toolbar command. You'll then have access to the Map Network Drive command no matter where you are.
The Map Network Drive command shows up in the Ribbon when you select Computer. It does not appear in the Ribbon when you select Network nor does it appear in the Ribbon when you select a share in Network. Not sure if this is an oversight on the part of the developers or a limitation of the contextual tab feature. In any case, it seems that a Map Network Drive command would be appropriate on the Network tab.
However, there are very simple ways to Map a network drive. First, if you right click on a share in Network, you'll see a Map Network Drive command on the context menu. Second, you can add the Map Network Drive command to File Explorer's Quick Access toolbar. Just right click the Map Network Drive command in Computer and select the Add to Quick Access toolbar command. You'll then have access to the Map Network Drive command no matter where you are.
Good to know the right click menus are still there for the functions the devs forgot lol.
When I open msconfig and attempt to clear the start-up it says that I need to use task manager. I opened task manager but was unable to stop any of the start up apps that I wanted to. How do I go about doing that?
Thanks,
Ken Yedica
Thanks,
Ken Yedica
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There are TR members who specifically seek out problems in need of a solution. Although there is some overlap between the forums, you'll find more of those members in 'Q&A' than in 'Discussions' or 'Water Cooler'.
Be sure to use the voting buttons to provide your feedback. Voting a '+' does not necessarily mean that a given response contained the complete solution to your problem, but that it served to guide you toward it. This is intended to serve as an aid to those who may in the future have a problem similar to yours. If they have a ready source of reference available, perhaps won't need to repeat questions previously asked and answered. If a post did contain the solution to your problem, you can also close the question by marking the helpful post as "The Answer".
Has anyone else run into Windows 8 File Explorer not updating the details pane promptly when you click on each file? Then it takes a few seconds to open the File Properties dialog when I hit Alt-Enter. This is sporadic behavior
Apologies for the following. Greg Shultz is an excellent writer/reviewer who would be out of work, if he wrote the stuff I'm going to say below. 
My first computer was a CMP desktop. My second was a DOS #? machine, on which I later installed the first MS-Windows and a 1M(?) memory card so it could load a clock any first grader could draw faster than Windows did.
So you see, for me it is Clickety-clack, same old railroad track. Most of the look and feel has been 'explored' in applications on the market for several years for the home user. For business, this is change for change sake that does nothing to improve business productivity. History will class this as simply another 'Vista'.
Microsoft is to software, what GM/Ford/Chrysler have been for years to the auto consumer. New paint & lots of advertising, segment the product, deliver faulty product and repair it under a limited warranty if it fails. Then convince the buyer to go buy their new car with the same bugs still hanging around underneath a new exterior.
For new computer users, go for it, after all, the cripple-ware came on your new machine at a very small cost to the manufacturer; because you don't have the real OS to repair or reinstall the OS without paying big bucks to unlock the version codes residing on the same disc. By the way, be sure to bump up the memory to 6G or 8G on your new machine, and utilize a cloud backup service that can ghost your entire drive like businesses have been doing for years. The best thing MS could have done for Windows-8 was to have released W7 running as a shell on Linux (along with Apple, droid, etc.). Include the ability to run applications written for every version of Windows and DOS; and include a serious file and document management system for business with layered security and access controls for business. The home buyer would get the same software and if they took the time to learn it, they would be able to sit down at an office workstation and be productive. Touching icons on a droid or iphone, texting gibberish or knowing what/who some hottie is doing, is not going to help the business world be more productive. In 'Demolition Man' everyone listened to and sang along with 30-second commercials as if they were Mozart.
Welcome 'comrades', to the world of Global Corporate Fascism! I rest my case.
Ciao, and Happy New Year!!!
My first computer was a CMP desktop. My second was a DOS #? machine, on which I later installed the first MS-Windows and a 1M(?) memory card so it could load a clock any first grader could draw faster than Windows did.
So you see, for me it is Clickety-clack, same old railroad track. Most of the look and feel has been 'explored' in applications on the market for several years for the home user. For business, this is change for change sake that does nothing to improve business productivity. History will class this as simply another 'Vista'.
Microsoft is to software, what GM/Ford/Chrysler have been for years to the auto consumer. New paint & lots of advertising, segment the product, deliver faulty product and repair it under a limited warranty if it fails. Then convince the buyer to go buy their new car with the same bugs still hanging around underneath a new exterior.
For new computer users, go for it, after all, the cripple-ware came on your new machine at a very small cost to the manufacturer; because you don't have the real OS to repair or reinstall the OS without paying big bucks to unlock the version codes residing on the same disc. By the way, be sure to bump up the memory to 6G or 8G on your new machine, and utilize a cloud backup service that can ghost your entire drive like businesses have been doing for years. The best thing MS could have done for Windows-8 was to have released W7 running as a shell on Linux (along with Apple, droid, etc.). Include the ability to run applications written for every version of Windows and DOS; and include a serious file and document management system for business with layered security and access controls for business. The home buyer would get the same software and if they took the time to learn it, they would be able to sit down at an office workstation and be productive. Touching icons on a droid or iphone, texting gibberish or knowing what/who some hottie is doing, is not going to help the business world be more productive. In 'Demolition Man' everyone listened to and sang along with 30-second commercials as if they were Mozart.
Welcome 'comrades', to the world of Global Corporate Fascism! I rest my case.
Ciao, and Happy New Year!!!
This article and the first part of the series forced me to step through each available function. This new functionality now provides me with a faster means to access Control Panel routines and move around the network with greater ease. I am also a DOS 1.1 user from 1983 and have followed the Microsoft developments over the years. This is most certainly a step in the right direction to improve productivity and recover from problems.
For me, the right place for a context menu is on the right-click. I'm sure everyone using a mouse would agree. Win8 is designed for the finger, so all the context menus must be shoe-horned into the main menu system. Is there not a method of opening a context menu using fingers? I would think: while touching the item of interest, double-touch with another finger to get the context menu. Another option is to have one "button" to touch for a context menu. I for one find a constantly changing menu quite unnerving.
Gregg, Thank you for all the hard work and effort you have been putting in to doing these. I really appreciate it! Sadly if this ribbon BS continues, I'll no longer be using MS, I can go to a Unix flavor. It reminds me of the ribbons Apple made back in the Windows 3.0 days. It doesn't work for me, and several thousands of others. Reason is simple; too many dang cartoons -er- icons that get in the way of simple words that are self explanatory and need no pretty little pictures to take up even more space on a screen/wall. Cave Men did pictures and we still today with all our collective intellect do not understand all that they depict or why they painted them. And now I know why the "brainiacs" coming out schools today have trouble reading or articulating... I'm just waiting for the grunts to follow.
Yep, the Windows Explorer is cute and a significant improvement over previous versions. But it's nowhere near as functional as Directory Opus or some other file managers of recent vintage like ExplorerPlus and PowerDesk. What's really frustrating is that the vast majority of computer users never, ever, use their file manager. They don't have a clue what they are or how to use them. Maybe the new Windows Explorer will change that, but I doubt it. And techies seem to be the least able to understand the computer experience of the average consumer or worker.
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