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My global solution to choosing locations   [Wish]

By: Bill Kingsbury       
Date: Nov 16,2010 at 02:57
In Response to: My global solution to choosing locations (Slobodan Vujnovic)

> I sympathize with Bill, Steve and millions others subjected to the
> humiliation of having to use the Save/Open Dialog during the past few
> decades. It looks a bit more usable on Vista/7, but I did not look
> closely. What always annoyed and slowed me down was/is: [...]
>
> 2. It did not remember user's last location choices (mostly), resizing,
> position, etc.
>
> 3. Always defaulted to Icon View (not Details, which is what I want to
> use exclusively in Windows).


This add-on might help, too -- for Win XP and 2000: --

"Force Open/Save Dialogs to Use Details Mode in Windows XP"

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/f...gs-to-use-details-mode-in-windows-xp/

...referring to:

OpenWide - http://lingo.atspace.com/openwide.html

. Set position and size of Open & Save dialogs

. Set initial keyboard focus

. Set initial view style

. Drag & drop folders onto the title bar of an Open/Save dialog box, and the view will change to that folder!

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