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Windows 7 HELP!!
14 years ago
Ok so Windows 7 turns out it sucks even more than Vista. Which I didn't even know was possible lol Anyways, I have a few issues I wonder that can be fixed and I'm hopping some of you my know how to fix the problem.
-Icon Sizes: So heres the scoop. I often like to have varying icon sizes in my files. For example, in the Documents folder I could have a file with MP3's, so I have a LIST view, in another I could have some photos, so I have them in ICON's. But now in windows 7, when ever I re-size one folders contents, it affects alllllll the rest of the stuff inside the Documents File, or 'library' I guess its now called. Funny thing, when I was copping and pasting from my backup drive, all the files there kept the views I wanted. Whats going on here?
-Preview Pictures(thumbnails): In my photos file I like to have them larger so I can quickly see what the drawing is. Problem is a good quarter of them roughly are being shown upside down and with neon colors. I tired defraging, restarting, opening and re-saving them, no dice.
Something to note, it only seems to affect TIFF files so far, if that lights any bulbs. Oh and I cleared out the thumbnail cache as well.
Some people may think this isn't much to gripe about, but the way you view files on a computer is very important.
I'm sure I'll run into other problems soon here as I install and set up more stuff. Turns out using Live IM 14 is gonna be pretty much impossible, so going to have to use the new version *Shudders* Ewwwwwwwww. I don't understand why you cant change your Nick/Display name. Man Microsoft blows lol
But yeah, if any of you guys know how to fix these problems that would be great. I'll post more of windows fawkups as I discover them throughout the coming days haha
-Icon Sizes: So heres the scoop. I often like to have varying icon sizes in my files. For example, in the Documents folder I could have a file with MP3's, so I have a LIST view, in another I could have some photos, so I have them in ICON's. But now in windows 7, when ever I re-size one folders contents, it affects alllllll the rest of the stuff inside the Documents File, or 'library' I guess its now called. Funny thing, when I was copping and pasting from my backup drive, all the files there kept the views I wanted. Whats going on here?
-Preview Pictures(thumbnails): In my photos file I like to have them larger so I can quickly see what the drawing is. Problem is a good quarter of them roughly are being shown upside down and with neon colors. I tired defraging, restarting, opening and re-saving them, no dice.
Something to note, it only seems to affect TIFF files so far, if that lights any bulbs. Oh and I cleared out the thumbnail cache as well.
Some people may think this isn't much to gripe about, but the way you view files on a computer is very important.
I'm sure I'll run into other problems soon here as I install and set up more stuff. Turns out using Live IM 14 is gonna be pretty much impossible, so going to have to use the new version *Shudders* Ewwwwwwwww. I don't understand why you cant change your Nick/Display name. Man Microsoft blows lol
But yeah, if any of you guys know how to fix these problems that would be great. I'll post more of windows fawkups as I discover them throughout the coming days haha
You have a way with Windows :P
Defragging isn't going to fix those thumbnails (why did you even try this? X3)... I'm guessing the thumbnails are for files with the .tiff extension (Sketchbook Pro). Regular tiffs don't do this, but sketchbook pro tiffs do. You're probably not going to fix the tiff problem, so just start saving as PSDs... it allows for better Photoshop Compatibility anyway.
If you think this experience is terrible, you haven't seen OS X Snow Leopard to Lion.
Vista ---> 7 was pretty good. Aero Snap is useful and Jump lists really do quite a bit for me.
And yeah I know how to zoom in and out lol I'm just saying, it was nice to that XP and Vista allowed me to have different types of views depending on which folder I looked at. Having to zoom out and it for every file would not be fun. I talked to others tho and they say their not having any issues with that. I don't know whats up with this thing.