I usually navigate my Windows 7 Explorer windows via keyboard. I type the name of a directory, then hit enter to open it. But when the new directory comes up, typing finds the first filename alphabetically, which would be fine if I had my directories sorted by file name, but I do not - they're sorted by file type instead. Once a file is selected after typing the first letter, Windows's selection continues looking in the display order (first by type then alphabetically) but does not wrap to the beginning of the directory, so if I was trying to select a folder and ended up with a file, then I either have to click in the window or wait a few seconds and hit Home to get to the start of the window. How do I change this so it will initially give preference to file type and not just file names?
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posted by Lakmir
on May 17, 2013 -
5 answers
I'm trying to come up with some quirky actions that a survivalist or adventurer might do in the wilderness, actions which might seem odd or random to the uninformed but are actually useful, clever or at least have a specific function which is not immediately obvious. For example, rubbing an unknown berry's juices on one's skin. If you don't know that this is a method to tell whether the fruit is poisonous, it might seem like a wacky thing to do. Once you know WHY someone is doing it, you realize it isn't nutty at all. What are some other examples?
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posted by MrHalfwit
on Apr 19, 2013 -
22 answers
Why do certain features of a website work with current versions of firefox and earlier versions of Internet Explorer (7.0 and earlier) but not IE 9.0? Details and screenshots and much...
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posted by de void
on Jan 9, 2013 -
5 answers
Admiral Byrd took 2 1/2 tons of NECCO Wafers to Antarctica? Citation needed. Can you help?
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posted by RevRob330
on Aug 23, 2012 -
29 answers
I need to move an apartment's worth of things from Seattle to Dallas, including a vehicle. A U-Haul 5'x8' trailer would be awesome but they don't rent to Ford Explorer drivers. I have a Ford Explorer. There don't appear to be any other trailer rental companies in the Seattle area. Are there any other options? Less than $500 would be great--the U-Haul trailer I can't have is $321--but I'm open to all ideas that are somewhere in the ballpark.
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posted by fireoyster
on Jul 16, 2012 -
11 answers
Is there any an easy way to get Internet Explorer to redirect internal network links through a different IP address? For technical reasons that are not clear to me, we've been unable to access links to a client's Sharepoint site. However, we've found that if we change the "sharepoint" part of the address to a specific IP address, it works fine. (http://sharepoint/menu to http://1.2.34.56/menu).
Is there a way to get Internet Explorer to automatically resolve the link through the IP address? I tried changing the system host file but that only seems to work for whole domains. Googling turned up a Firefox extension but unfortunately I'm stuck in IE. Please help!
Thanks!
posted by Hermes32
on May 6, 2012 -
9 answers
Help me find business-related websites which display incorrectly with IE9 "compatibility mode" enabled.
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posted by anonymous
on Mar 14, 2012 -
1 answer
I want to dress up my chrome browser to look like internet explorer 1 or alternatively, netscape! I haven't found any themes/designs myself, so im asking the hivemind!
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posted by freddymetz
on Jan 8, 2012 -
2 answers
In the Windows 7 explorer context menu, I'd like to add an item under 'new' that's like "New Folder" but instead creates a folder named e.g. 2011-07-26. I have no idea where I'd start; any approaches or software I should look into?
posted by the mad poster!
on Jul 26, 2011 -
11 answers
I like to use the Favorites bar in IE8 and IE9 for frequently accessed web sites, such as iGoogle, Google Mail, Google Reader, and (of course) Ask Metafilter. I like the favicons that appear there, but, for some reason, the Gmail favicon always appears as the generic, IE website icon. See image link
here. I've tried everything I can think of to make it look "nice" like the others, but it always looks like this, even on other computers with the Favorites linked through Xmarks. Why is this and can anyone offer a solution? Thanks!
posted by Rad_Boy
on Jul 10, 2011 -
2 answers
Windows XP is denying access to EFS encrypted files for seemingly no reason. Please help.
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posted by Bangaioh
on Jun 9, 2011 -
13 answers
In WinXP, why is it that the file browser within Nero9 is able to view the home dir of a disk pulled from a different WinXP PC, but Windows Explorer isn't able to?
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posted by gluino
on May 31, 2011 -
2 answers
My Windows Explorer has recently begun to crash whenever I get a Facebook email. Any idea why this is happening and how I can fix it?
posted by Mickelstiff
on Apr 16, 2011 -
4 answers
Mark of the Web - I am confused. I'm making a site that will be delivered via CD-Rom as an option (for offline use, contains a lot of video and some javascript). It seems MoTW is necessary. Is that right?
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posted by media_itoku
on Jan 28, 2011 -
2 answers
Wordpress help: Using Suffusion theme, navigation bar not working in Internet Explorer. The top-level item, set as a tab, is working. All the items beneath it are not. This is working fine in Chrome. What gives?
posted by Cool Papa Bell
on Jul 27, 2010 -
4 answers
Switching between Excel and Word on a laptop running Vista is problematic because a long-deleted browser is not responding. The hell?
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posted by ricochet biscuit
on Jul 2, 2010 -
8 answers
How do I move captured pictures from my iPod to my computer? Last week I could see the iPod's directory in Windows Explorer. Now I cannot.
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posted by Drasher
on Mar 3, 2010 -
5 answers
I live in Plano, TX, and I am looking for a place where I can basically harvest my own parts from a large scap yard.
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posted by Jim On Light
on Dec 20, 2009 -
4 answers
Are there any browsers that are essentially Chrome clones in function and appearance, but aren't Chrome and don't share any common code?
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posted by doublehappy
on Jul 10, 2009 -
16 answers
I'd like to write a program for Windows XP that detects when a folder on the desktop is clicked and switches the desktop location to that folder, instead of the default Explorer behavior of opening the folder in a window.
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posted by long
on Jun 27, 2009 -
12 answers
When i kill and restart explorer.exe, what processes and files does it execute?
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posted by lockle
on Mar 18, 2009 -
10 answers
CSSfilter: Explorer's scroll bars shift
my design's centered background image
up or
down by about ten pixels when the browser width is less than 880 pixels wide (in other words, on a laptop). Arrgh! It should look like
this. Is there a better way to force a centered background image to really be CENTERED?!?
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posted by 2oh1
on Jan 26, 2009 -
9 answers
When I type in a url into the address bar in Internet Explorer (v 6.0.29) it automatically opens up the page in Mozilla Firefox (v.5.0) - how can I force the page to just open up in Explorer? (I've scoured preferences to no avail) (Windows XP- home)
posted by mrmarley
on Dec 8, 2008 -
3 answers
SynthFilter: Help me find more information about this keyboard I saw in a pawn shop!
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posted by clcapps
on Oct 24, 2008 -
2 answers
I'm trying to come up with a generalized comic viewer using just JavaScript. I have a solution that works in nearly all browsers, but fails miserably in Internet Explorer (several versions). I don't have easy access to a Windows machine, and wonder if anyone could help me figure out what I'm doing wrong (specifically for IE).
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posted by jpburns
on Oct 19, 2008 -
7 answers
I love IE7's built-in RSS/feed reader. I hate, hate, hate IE7's slowness and general, overal crapiness. I would love to use FireFox, but I want the same kind of RSS reader functionality. Is there is a plugin or extension for Firefox that exists and works just like IE7's RSS reader?
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posted by karizma
on Sep 29, 2008 -
4 answers
A few years ago I came across an alternative to Windows Explorer that let you browse the contents of your drives by disk space used. The display was a kind of Mondrian grid, with the files and folders taking up the most disk space having the largest area on the display. Can anyone point me to this utility (or something similar)?
posted by Lokheed
on Aug 24, 2008 -
5 answers
How can I get Internet Explorer to show favicons? I have over 1000 favorites and use FavIconizer to download and save favicons.
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posted by blue shadows
on Jul 25, 2008 -
2 answers
Help me with some free, easy to use software for elderly people to use on a computer. Specifically: hands-off, self-maintaining security, and a good replacement for Windows Explorer.
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posted by biwa-shu
on Jul 2, 2008 -
9 answers
How can I turn a long list of hyperlinks into either a list of filenames in Windows Explorer or a list of Favorites in Internet Explorer? Say I have 1,000 hyperlinks in a list so it is 1,000 entries long (could be in an Excel file, a Word file, or on a web page). I want to have these 1,000 hyperlinks as Favorites, which seems to be the same as converting them from the content of one file to the file names of 1,000 files. I can manually save each hyperlink as the name of a file, but if there are 1,000, and if they need to be updated every week, that would be a killer. I need an automated solution.
posted by Wagging Dog
on Jun 2, 2008 -
4 answers
I have three 500 MB hard drives in my XP desktop machine, and another 500 MB external. Right now, I'm working with them as four different drive letters, which gets confusing. Is there a utility that will allow me to treat them as a single drive letter?
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posted by Optamystic
on May 18, 2008 -
14 answers
Server/network/IT-Filter? Windows Vista keeps, or more specifically explorer.exe drops my network transfers, how can I fix this or what is the best Explorer replacement? Also, how can I make Windows Server 2008 more useful on the small scale (more inside of course) ...
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posted by cgomez
on Apr 17, 2008 -
4 answers
If throw an address like c:\my documents into an IE address bar, it opens up the folder in windows explorer. If I put the same thing in a firefox address bar, I get an html page that displays the folder/files as a series of links down the page. Anyway to get firefox to replicate the IE behavior on this type of address?
posted by stupidsexyFlanders
on Apr 11, 2008 -
7 answers
Webbrowsing/Internet Explorer 6 Filter:
When reading a long webpage(usually several screen lengths), I often click on a link that's part way down. IE goes to that webpage in the same window(as it should). However, when I click back, I often find that I am at the top of the first page.
I'm pretty sure it always used to scroll down to where I was before I clicked on the link. Now it only does that sometimes. I know this is minor, but it bugs me sometimes. Is there anything I can do to fix this?
posted by newatom
on Apr 9, 2008 -
7 answers
I disabled Explorer with a fake proxy server address, and now I can't connect to the iTunes store. I don't want to go back to Explorer from Firefox, but I needs some new tunes!
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posted by M.C. Lo-Carb!
on Mar 17, 2008 -
10 answers
I know you can create custom error pages (via htaccess) for specific sites but is there a way to create a custom 'Page Cannot Be Displayed' page on the browser side with Explorer? I was thinking it might be nice to include a link to google cache of the page or perhaps automatically redirect Explorer to that page.
posted by linklog
on Nov 1, 2007 -
7 answers
Exploer views in XP: Is there a way to effectively manage these? The only way I know to change views is to a)change each folder view manually, or b) go to Tools>Options>View>Apply (this view) to all folders. Any software or tips?
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posted by Zimm
on Aug 17, 2007 -
7 answers
I'm looking for an alternative to Windows Explorer. Specifically, I would like there to be 2 trees, and 2 related panes, either in a horizontal or vertical arrangement.
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posted by russmail
on Jun 30, 2007 -
15 answers
When I right-click the iTunes icon in the Windows system tray, often the taskbar context menu will pop up at the same time and interfere with the iTunes menu, like
this. How can I fix this?
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posted by Aloysius Bear
on Jun 23, 2007 -
8 answers
My music album folder contains ~1000 folders in it. It's stored on a large external hard drive. It suddenly began only displaying the first 287 folders, ordered alphabetically.
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posted by anthropomorphic
on Jun 13, 2007 -
14 answers
IRC for dummies - what's the best client to reccomend for serial Internet Explorer users, that supports irc:// links?
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posted by Jimbob
on May 22, 2007 -
3 answers
