Another reason I hate Explorer
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Cheers for the advice, but my problem is that I shouldn't [i]have[/i] to do anything. I actually like a lot of Microsoft's software (apart from Office and a couple of others) and I really want to hope that Vistahorn will be a "good" operating system. However, hope being the greatest evil, we will probably be dumped with anouther DOS + GUI remix.
I too like some of MS stuff, chiefly VS and also Office which are both ahead of the free alternatives. I can do without Office since I don't use it that much. If only VS2005 ran on *nix. I've actually seen some screenshots of it being installed on Wine, I did try but it bombed out because of no Windows Installer 3 (me thinks) so I might try it again later. And that will be me sorted, the power of *nix and VS combined :cool: Ed
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I too like some of MS stuff, chiefly VS and also Office which are both ahead of the free alternatives. I can do without Office since I don't use it that much. If only VS2005 ran on *nix. I've actually seen some screenshots of it being installed on Wine, I did try but it bombed out because of no Windows Installer 3 (me thinks) so I might try it again later. And that will be me sorted, the power of *nix and VS combined :cool: Ed
Ed.Poore wrote:
...the power of *nix and VS combined
Don't say that. It's just too nice a thought.
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Ed.Poore wrote:
...the power of *nix and VS combined
Don't say that. It's just too nice a thought.
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HalfWayMan wrote:
Don't say that. It's just too nice a thought.
Wish I could remember where the screenshot of VS2005 being installed on Wine was... Ed
Nice thoughts... Use VS2k5 IDE with GNU C... drool.
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Nice thoughts... Use VS2k5 IDE with GNU C... drool.
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:((
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No, not IE, but Windows explorer. I have a bunch of network directories in my network neighbourhood, many of which are no longer valid. Two things kill me: 1. Trying to right click on a dead link causes the explorer window to lock up while it times out. It would be so, SO nice if, when right clicking, a generic list of options was presented, and then, as more information came to hand, extra options were added. Or even setting the timeout to something less than TIMEOUT_FOREVERANDADAY would be nice 2. Similar to 1: When dragging files over a list of network shortcuts should you accidentally travel over the airspace of a dud link explorer will lock up while trying to interogate what cursor it should display while you're spending that 10 nanoseconds dragging your file over the link. How about a background thread for this? I feel like I'm walking through a minefield when exploring network folders cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Because it just crashed on me (again) and now I have no start menu. Ctrl-Shift-Esc.
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No, not IE, but Windows explorer. I have a bunch of network directories in my network neighbourhood, many of which are no longer valid. Two things kill me: 1. Trying to right click on a dead link causes the explorer window to lock up while it times out. It would be so, SO nice if, when right clicking, a generic list of options was presented, and then, as more information came to hand, extra options were added. Or even setting the timeout to something less than TIMEOUT_FOREVERANDADAY would be nice 2. Similar to 1: When dragging files over a list of network shortcuts should you accidentally travel over the airspace of a dud link explorer will lock up while trying to interogate what cursor it should display while you're spending that 10 nanoseconds dragging your file over the link. How about a background thread for this? I feel like I'm walking through a minefield when exploring network folders cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I feel your pain Chris. I gave up on explorer long ago and use alternative file managers for browsing my network. I also gave up explorer as a shell long long ago and have never gone back. I think you should first try a different file manager and to rid the pain of lockups and crashes use an alternative shell for better speed and stability. I use bblean shell and servant salamander as my file manager and when I've installed new systems I build I quickly realise the pain explorer can be and how slow the system is before I clean it up and kill explorers existance or lets say use for good.
Chris Maunder wrote:
I feel like I'm walking through a minefield when exploring network folders
:laugh: well put, a perfect example.
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No, not IE, but Windows explorer. I have a bunch of network directories in my network neighbourhood, many of which are no longer valid. Two things kill me: 1. Trying to right click on a dead link causes the explorer window to lock up while it times out. It would be so, SO nice if, when right clicking, a generic list of options was presented, and then, as more information came to hand, extra options were added. Or even setting the timeout to something less than TIMEOUT_FOREVERANDADAY would be nice 2. Similar to 1: When dragging files over a list of network shortcuts should you accidentally travel over the airspace of a dud link explorer will lock up while trying to interogate what cursor it should display while you're spending that 10 nanoseconds dragging your file over the link. How about a background thread for this? I feel like I'm walking through a minefield when exploring network folders cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
When dragging files over a list of network shortcuts should you accidentally travel over the airspace of a dud link explorer will lock up
That one bites me all the time. :mad: --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | NEW!! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ
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No, not IE, but Windows explorer. I have a bunch of network directories in my network neighbourhood, many of which are no longer valid. Two things kill me: 1. Trying to right click on a dead link causes the explorer window to lock up while it times out. It would be so, SO nice if, when right clicking, a generic list of options was presented, and then, as more information came to hand, extra options were added. Or even setting the timeout to something less than TIMEOUT_FOREVERANDADAY would be nice 2. Similar to 1: When dragging files over a list of network shortcuts should you accidentally travel over the airspace of a dud link explorer will lock up while trying to interogate what cursor it should display while you're spending that 10 nanoseconds dragging your file over the link. How about a background thread for this? I feel like I'm walking through a minefield when exploring network folders cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Total Commander[^] - once you start using it ... you'll never, ever, look back.
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Total Commander[^] - once you start using it ... you'll never, ever, look back.
:..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
Bad Astronomy |Development Blogging|Viksoe.dk's SiteBeen using the same system since the Norton and DOS days :) Windows Explorer, isnt that like the desktop? ;P
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HalfWayMan wrote:
Stupid Windows
Two solutions:
- **Best:**Switch to *nix
- Switch to DOS (or pseudo dos). If using network folders, create a mapped drive so "DOS" can recognise it then use a command-line program with the silent option on, e.g.
copy *.* M:\backup /q(BTW, I don't know if that works, long time since I ran Windows ;P)
Ed