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by peter

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Hi,

does anybody know of a way to get the 'create driectory' into the context menu of the explorer.
I find it very timeconsuming to always have to go in the specific directory and then use the 'file - new - directory' funktion.

thanks
peter

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by bursar

You should just be able to right click and choose New -> Folder.

If you can't then I would suspect that your Windows setup has gone a bit screwy and will need fixing first.

by peter

Sorry, but i have never seen any 'New - Folder' in the CONTEXT-MENU neither in WINME nor in W2K.

regards
peter

by dklippert

If you right-click in the right hand pane ("Contents")of Explorer, you will see New and be able to create a new folder/directory. It doesn't appear if you click in the left ("All Folders") pane.

by peter

Sorry, but there is no 'New' entry in the CONTEXT Menu.
NEW is only in the Top Menu under 'Files'.

by dklippert

Not to be insulting, but are you right-clicking in the pane on the RIGHT side of the display? New does not show when you click on the left side.
If it doesn't show on the RIGHT side, then you have some other problem.
Good luck

by peter

Doug,

neither in the right pane nor in the left pane is an option which lets me create a new directory at the spot were i selected a directory.

I checkt this now on several other peoples computers and is nowhere to be found.

The only posibility to create a directory is via 'File'->'New'->'Directory' in the Menu-Bar at the top.

The menus in the context-menu at the right pane is
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open
open with
Antiviral Toolkit
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Add to Zip
Zip and e-mail
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cut
copy
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create link
delete
rename
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options

Now, if you have something like 'New' in there, and I havent, then probably the German Version differs somehow from the englishversion.

I shall ask MS why that is so.

Thanks anyway.

by estebandelatorre

Place the mouse in a free area of the right side of the explorer, right click the mouse and choose New, and then Folder.
Type in the name of the new folder.

by maxwell edison

Greetings,

The article, "Configuring Windows Explorer
Suggested Modifications to the Context Sensitive Menus", can be found by cutting and pasting this link (REMOVE SPACES from the pasted URL):

http://www.cpcug.org/user/clemenzi/technical/WinExplorer/WinExplorerMenus.htm

It goes on to say, "In Windows Explorer, a customizable context sensitive menu is displayed when you right click either a folder or a file. Basically, there are 5 types of modifications :

Add a new entry

Modify an existing entry

Specify the default entry

Re-name an entry

Remove an entry

Normally, users make these modifications via the View/Options.../File Types dialog box and its associated Edit File Types dialog box. (Except that re-naming an entry always requires editing the registry.) By associating EditFlags with a specific file type, it is possible to keep users from making one or more of these modifications."

It's a quite extensive article that you should find quite useful tosolve your problem. (I printed it for my own use.)

Regards,

Maxwell

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