Vista - File Opening Limit
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Just in explorer, select 15 .txt files at the same time, right click, "open" & "edit" are at the top of the menu. select 16 files, right click, "open" option has gone and menu starts with "send to", then the usual cut/copy/paste etc. Hitting enter to open doesn't work either. Like Vasudevan Deepak Kumar said, could be RAM limitation, but the machines got 1gb and i've not got any heavy apps running. Simon
but the machines got 1gb and i've not got any heavy apps running Surely you don't need heavy apps when you've got a heavy OS
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Grr...Vista won't let me open more than 15 files at the same time. Why do Microsoft insist on treating all users like they are idiots, I know opening 15 files at the same time may slow things up a bit, but i want to do it dam them. Does anyone know how I can do this? Vista needs a button somewhere that says "Disable all those stupid 'protect you from yourself' options". Simon
First off Vista doesn't limit the number of files you can open, it just works under the assumption that why would anyone want to open that many files this way... which leads me to my question, why would you want to open that many files in that way?
Matt Newman
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but the machines got 1gb and i've not got any heavy apps running Surely you don't need heavy apps when you've got a heavy OS
:) Very true Ironically I resorted to a command prompt to perform the operation I wanted on multiple files. Looks like 1 step backwards to me. Simon
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Grr...Vista won't let me open more than 15 files at the same time. Why do Microsoft insist on treating all users like they are idiots, I know opening 15 files at the same time may slow things up a bit, but i want to do it dam them. Does anyone know how I can do this? Vista needs a button somewhere that says "Disable all those stupid 'protect you from yourself' options". Simon
I can't find any references to it now, but I'm sure I read an article somewhere saying that the different versions of vista had limitations on how many apps you could have open at once (e.g. the 3rd world "starter" edition only lets you have something stupid like 3 apps open at once) Are you using the Home edition? Are other people who don't have this limit using one of the "pro" versions?
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I just tested this, 15 is some limit, not just the commands disappears the preview changes also. Instead of the preview there is a hyperlink "Show more details...", clicking that and the preview looks the same as with <16 items. :omg: On to another subject, does anyone know how to disable fullrow select in the explorer listning in Vista? It is near impossible to select multiple items in it now. :mad:
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loket wrote:
On to another subject, does anyone know how to disable fullrow select in the explorer listning in Vista? It is near impossible to select multiple items in it now.
I see what you mean. Never noticed this before, I'm more of a keybored person myself. Is annoying though.
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First off Vista doesn't limit the number of files you can open, it just works under the assumption that why would anyone want to open that many files this way... which leads me to my question, why would you want to open that many files in that way?
Matt Newman
Matt Newman wrote:
why would you want to open that many files in that way?
"Why" isn't the point. The fact is that he wants to, and IE won't let him.
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I can't find any references to it now, but I'm sure I read an article somewhere saying that the different versions of vista had limitations on how many apps you could have open at once (e.g. the 3rd world "starter" edition only lets you have something stupid like 3 apps open at once) Are you using the Home edition? Are other people who don't have this limit using one of the "pro" versions?
It's not the number of apps i can open, it's the number of files i can "run" at the same time. Vista Business
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First off Vista doesn't limit the number of files you can open, it just works under the assumption that why would anyone want to open that many files this way... which leads me to my question, why would you want to open that many files in that way?
Matt Newman
Matt Newman wrote:
which leads me to my question, why would you want to open that many files in that way?
That is kinda besides the point. :) I do it all the time. :) Imagine you have a text editor you like and you have a directory full of files that you want to take a look at.
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:) Very true Ironically I resorted to a command prompt to perform the operation I wanted on multiple files. Looks like 1 step backwards to me. Simon
you should have used Vista's new Database driven filesystem ;-)
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It's not the number of apps i can open, it's the number of files i can "run" at the same time. Vista Business
This has got me curious. I'm going to boot into vista ultimate and see if I can replicate it. -Edit- Well I've just confirmed it. Yet another reason........... Time to file another bug report.
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Matt Newman wrote:
why would you want to open that many files in that way?
"Why" isn't the point. The fact is that he wants to, and IE won't let him.
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Thank you John... I knew I could count on you to back me up on that one :) If you must know, i've got about 80 dlls from a set of legacy apps that needed registering, & i've got a tool that just allows you to double click to register the file. having to do 15 files at a time is just plain annoying. Simon
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loket wrote:
On to another subject, does anyone know how to disable fullrow select in the explorer listning in Vista? It is near impossible to select multiple items in it now.
I see what you mean. Never noticed this before, I'm more of a keybored person myself. Is annoying though.
It is extremly annoying. X| Another annoying thing is that when i rightclick on an unselected item to get its contextmenu the selection part often does not happen so i get the menu without the selection. As for opening >15 .txt files you could get around this by adding your .txt editing app to the SendTo menu since it atleast is still available.
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you should have used Vista's new Database driven filesystem ;-)
Yeah, I tried that and got a little text box that said "To be implemented."
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Just in explorer, select 15 .txt files at the same time, right click, "open" & "edit" are at the top of the menu. select 16 files, right click, "open" option has gone and menu starts with "send to", then the usual cut/copy/paste etc. Hitting enter to open doesn't work either. Like Vasudevan Deepak Kumar said, could be RAM limitation, but the machines got 1gb and i've not got any heavy apps running. Simon
Simon Stevens wrote:
but the machines got 1gb and i've not got any heavy apps running.
Vista is heavy enough, mate. :laugh:
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It's not the number of apps i can open, it's the number of files i can "run" at the same time. Vista Business
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Yeah, I tried that and got a little text box that said "To be implemented."
You're kidding me. That's just about the only Vista feature i was interested in. Don't tell me MS forgot to implement it! Russell
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Grr...Vista won't let me open more than 15 files at the same time. Why do Microsoft insist on treating all users like they are idiots, I know opening 15 files at the same time may slow things up a bit, but i want to do it dam them. Does anyone know how I can do this? Vista needs a button somewhere that says "Disable all those stupid 'protect you from yourself' options". Simon
Simon Stevens wrote:
Vista won't let me open more than 15 files at the same time.
15 different files, or 15 instances of the same file? If the first, does that mean I can't open more than 15 files in Visual Studio? Marc
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Grr...Vista won't let me open more than 15 files at the same time. Why do Microsoft insist on treating all users like they are idiots, I know opening 15 files at the same time may slow things up a bit, but i want to do it dam them. Does anyone know how I can do this? Vista needs a button somewhere that says "Disable all those stupid 'protect you from yourself' options". Simon
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Grr...Vista won't let me open more than 15 files at the same time. Why do Microsoft insist on treating all users like they are idiots, I know opening 15 files at the same time may slow things up a bit, but i want to do it dam them. Does anyone know how I can do this? Vista needs a button somewhere that says "Disable all those stupid 'protect you from yourself' options". Simon
Simon Stevens wrote:
Why do Microsoft insist on treating all users like they are idiots,
Because most of them are idiots ( present company excluded ofcourse).
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You're kidding me. That's just about the only Vista feature i was interested in. Don't tell me MS forgot to implement it! Russell
DBFS got dropped from vista and kicked into the next version over a year ago, for the same reason it's been vaporware since ~2000 and the OS startup company that originally came up with the idea (BEos?? Pink???) abandoned it years ago was that it was impossible to get a usable level of performance out of it.
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