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
Simon Stevens wrote:
but the machines got 1gb and i've not got any heavy apps running.
Vista is heavy enough, mate. :laugh:
Cheers, Vikram.
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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
I've been watching the XP and Vista trends in Microsoft UI design. They're obviously weighted heavily towards making computers as easy to use as possible for mere mortals. The problem is that between security issues and this design philosophy, each iteration makes things more difficult for power users. Here's another Killar App for someone with ambition (and too much time on their hands). Write a configuratin utility similar to the Toys stuff MS did that flips internal switches, turns off all the "save me from myself" stuff, and puts the raw power of the OS directly into the hands of the user. You might also have to write some shell extensions to modify the UI yourself when there are no switches to flip. Write this, make it work for both the XP Fischer-Price interface and the Vista NYC (No, you can't) interface, and then buy that little island in the South Pacific you've been dreaming of.
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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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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
I too had to do the same thing but wrote this .bat file to register all .dll and .ocx files in the working directory. for %%i in (*.dll) do regsvr32 /s %%i for %%i in (*.ocx) do regsvr32 /s %%i The 'regsvr32 /s' can be changed to un-register them too. Perhaps this will help next time.
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Thank 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
We have kinda the same deal (but only 15 DLLs using regsvr32). We wrote a batch file to unregister the old versions, copy the new ones to the bin folder, and then register them. I don't know if that's the kind of registering you're talking about though.
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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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Chris Austin wrote:
Imagine you have a text editor you like and you have a directory full of files that you want to take a look at.
I use Ultra-Edit, and have had over 30 files open at a given time (though I haven't tried it in Vista).
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
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
What if I wanted to load 20 images into a slideshow application? Oh right, no one would want to do that! Or do you need to buy Vista Super Unlimited Ultimate Kitchen Sink edition? I don't blame MS though. I blame stupid people. Customer: What do you mean double click?
Todd Smith
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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
