Re: Windows XP Explorer display

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Thanks, jw. It seems odd that such a powerful tool as Explorer is should not be more easily configurable. No, it's not documents I'm trying to view, but .eml and .nws emails and newsgroup posts. There are 66,000 files in 400 folders, and applying views to 400 folders manually is not a task I'd wish to embark on. You can't even apply a setting and then elect to apply it to subfolders - it's all or nothing.
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Noel

"mr_unreliable" <kindlyReplyToNewsgroup@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:#$pZRyi$IHA.2244@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ildhund wrote:
I would like Windows Explorer column headers to be: Name, Author, Subject. SendKeys can't do it. Is this possible?

hi Ildhund,

As best I can tell, you can't do that from script.

If you are willing to write your own "explorer" in
vb, then yes, you could place anything in the columns
that you want. There are many examples of roll-yer-own
explorers on the usual vb source code sites.

If you wish to stick to script, you could make up an
hta (i.e., a webbrowser gui) showing a "listbox" (i.g.,
a table tag, or else a listbox object borrowed from vb)
with any columns you want.

As far as the contents of the table, (name, author, subject)
that sounds like you are listing ms word documents (or maybe
wordperfect?). Anyway, to list those attributes you are
going to have to use the word.application object to open
each document one-at-a-time, and retrieve those attributes
for your listing.

cheers, jw
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