Re: Disable folder previews in My Pictures?

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From: carabalda (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:53:00 -0800

>-----Original Message-----
>anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion, but that doesn't really do
it.
>>
>> I did exactly what you recommended. What this does is
>> allow me to have the Details view of this folder WHEN
I'M
>> ACCESSING IT FROM WINDOWS EXPLORER (the file manager).
In
>> that case, this folder (and all others) open up in
Details
>> view.
>>
>> However...
>>
>> If I'm at a web site using INTERNET EXPLORER (the web
>> browser) and I right-click an image and select "Save
>> Picture As", the "Save Picture" window appears with
>> the "Save In" location defaulting to the "My Pictures"
>> folder as expected... BUT THE VIEW IS AGAIN USING
>> THUMBNAILS, NOT DETAILS AS SHOULD HAVE BEEN "SET" WHEN
>> I APPLIED THAT VIEW TO ALL FOLDERS. Shouldn't it?
>>
>> Do you see? IE is doing something differently than
>> Windows Explorer. It's as if this Thumbnails View is
>> hard-coded into the "Save Picture As" part of IE's
>> right-click menu option.
>>
>> I just don't get it... and it's extremely frustrating
>> to me. Although I have a very fast machine with lots of
>> RAM and a great video card, it takes too much time to
>> generate these special preview thumbnails of all the
>> folders within My Pictures. And I hate having to always
>> manually change the view from Thumbnails to Details or
>> List when I try to save a photo from IE. These are
>> unnecessary extra mouse-clicks that I find annoying.
>> XP is so customizeable in many other ways... I wonder
>> why this one thing is so obstinate.
>>
>> carabalda
>===================================
>The screaming is not necessary.
>
>OK...now you have your folders set to "Details"...
>
>When you are on a website and wish to save
>a picture...try this...right click the image and
>choose...Copy...
>
>Right click again and choose...Go to My Pictures...
>Right click the folder you wish to save in and choose
>Paste.
>
>If you have several images to copy...just tile your
>IE screen with your My Pictures Screen and...
>then you can copy/paste or drag and drop.
>
>If you're copying a series of images you can usually
>change the last number on the URL and the next
>image in sequence will load.
>
>--
>
>John Inzer
>Picture It! MVP
>return e-mail disabled
>
>Picture It! Support Center
>http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=pic
>

John, Sorry for "the screaming"... I was just trying to
add emphasis the only way possible with fixed-font plain
text. My apologies...

Your solution, which works, defeates the entire purpose
of the request. I want to reduce the number of clicks it
take to get an image saved to the hard disk. Having to
right-click and Copy, then right-click again and go to
My Pictures, then right-click yet again and Paste, is far
too many clicks to get the job done. And lo and behold,
the very first time I tried your method, even though I
was taken to the My Pictures folder in Windows Explorer,
the view was initially Thumbnails. After I changed the
view to Details, that Details view remained for each
subsequent test. But I'm guessing that each time the
computer is rebooted, the first time I try your method
again, that folder's view will have gone back to
Thumbnails... it's extremely frustrating.

The reply after yours, from, David explains it... what I
want simply cannot happen. The thumbnails view will always
appear when I simply right-click and select "Save As".
This system default is non-customizeable.

That just kind of amazes me... and not in a good way.

But thanks for trying anyway.

carabalda

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