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October 4, 2006 at 05:25 AM
keislerd

A cry for help, a cry for sanity

by keislerd . Updated 19 years, 10 months ago

I have a question that has been bugging me for a long time and I am not smart enough to find the answer on my own. Here is the issue. When I go to save a file, the ?look in? dialog box pops up and to the left of that box I am given the options:
1) My Recent Documents, 2) Desktop, 3) My documents, 4) My Computer, 5) My Network places — This could be a very handy and time saving feature, but in reality none of my choices actually appear in this list. Moreover, due to the fact that
1)some of us still remember DOS and prefer to know where files are stored
2)?My Documents? can be buried multiple folders deep and cause file length problems
3)some of us don?t trust the ?My documents? folder to contain everything we want to back up or protect
4)some of us have lots and lots of ?My Documents? and need a bit more depth or filing breadth than ?My Documents?
The question is how do I, break out of the ?MY? this and ?MY? that mold and actually create in this case a useful list of ?look in? box options. Is there no opportunity for creativity ? to create useful links like ?C:? or ?Project 1? or something original? If the opportunity for individualism still exists, and I am not talking about the ability to change ?skins? or ?colors of skins? (what a waste of time and computing talent that is ? besides you mean to tell me people actually care about their skin? How vane!)how do us commoners actually change options ? specifically like the ?look in? box of short cut options below that would save some of us time on the computer so we can get away from the darn computer and get outside into reality! So, Help, I need help !
Finally, I am more than happy for you to use this to share with your readers, but would you please email me the answer, because I spend way to much time on the computer now and by design or default, I haven?t found the answer to this question yet.

Many thanks
Duane,
Duane H. Keisler
Professor, Animal Sciences
email KeislerD@missouri.edu

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