Posted By: Koogle | Feb 6th, 2008 @ 3:46 PM
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Koogle
Koogle
I'm a Terminator - Astalavista, Vis7a!

is there a default registry key that is used by windows to set the explorer window size? (i'm not talking about IE.. btw.. just to make it ultra clear)

 soo sick of having some file explorer windows open up at some poxy little size..

And I know about the shift close method to save the window sizes.. that works fine on the folder you did it on.. but then when you launch a different folder that hasn't had its size set..its back to default tiny size again.. and sure its ok if  you opened c:\ with its set size and then navigate to the folder you wanted to view..

but if you had some other application launch "c:\windows\rubbish" then it seems explorer opens it up some tiny window proportions

so registry key pls.... just want to set the default [width] x [height] for any future file explorer window ever opened ever again.

one last thing.. there is registry key that coudl be used to disable the "Folders" sideview from showing when you open the file explorer(like winkey+e )... does anyone know what that registry key is. I had a look many times but trying to come up with the right search terms to find it, just got mind numbingly stupid for an option that should be readily available for the user to choose.

I don't think so. But I have been pondering to create an application to auto resize certain windows "always" upon opening.
DCMonkey
DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!
Koogle wrote:
something that could fix this sillyness would be good. i'm finding that its defaulting to 800x600.. and from what i've read searching for some sort of actual proper fix, that seems to be hard coded into windows. btw is this still the case with vistar?

i have 1920x1200 dual monitors and this 800x600 default explorer window size retardedness is nutz, does MS not upgrade employees workstations? is that why they feel 800x600 is a good hard coded default size?


I thought I had my Explorer windows "trained" in Vista, but they've recently started to come up at that annoyingly small default size too.

Grr, MS never seems to get this setting of window size, default view etc in Explorer right*. I know for some of these it is difficult to choose the right behavior, but it should still be an understandable and reliable model.

* To this day, I think this is a big reason that Windows 95 original default behavior to open every folder in a new window like the Mac OS classic never caught on. It never remembered the individual folder settings with anything approaching reilability.
I came across this post in my search for a solution. I was able to figure out a fix and thought I would let you all know. All of my Windows Explorer windows now open at a custom size, no matter how I get to them. Even brand new folders I create.

I posted the solution on my blog.
After a few hours of Registry hunting, I have re-solved this problem. Although Brian has a good solution, I haven't seen it work yet. I will be posting the solution on my website by 10:30 PM Central time tonight (December 1st, 2008). http://mogaard.com/explorer-issue
FYI, holding shift while closing a window does absolutely, positively nothing.  Except close the window of course.
DCMonkey
DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!
Does anyone know if these folder size and the related problems of folder type guessing and view settings have been fixed in the Windows 7 PDC build?
ZippyV
ZippyV
Fired Up
PauloM has said that this problem should be fixed in Windows 7.
Where is that quote from?  If that's real, that engineer is just revealing his own ignorance.

If there is a handle or reference leak in their code that is absolutely their problem.  Windows obviously doesn't ship with problems like that, none of the other handlers have such problems.  If that Chris Cox needs programming lessons I can suggest some classes he should take.

Blaming the OS for your own bugs is so 90s.
PaoloM
PaoloM
Hypermediocrity
Heh. Chris Cox. The memories... Smiley
I don't use Photoshop so I don't even know what the Bridge thing you're talking about is.

But implementing a thumbnail handler is pretty darn easy.  Just implement IThumbnailProvider and one of the intialization interfaces like IInitializeWithStream.  If you get initialized with the stream then it isn't even possible that you accidentally lock the file and forget to release it... 

 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb774614.aspx
Photoshop is so horribly baked around the old Mac Os API's it's hardly a surprise that nobody is entirely sure where the memory leaks are. A friend who used to work for Adobe once described viewing the code to me as a "disturbing experience"

So where was that quote you posted originally from?  Do you have a link?  I'd appreciate if you could share it.

PaoloM
PaoloM
Hypermediocrity
Ahahah... you're going to get banned there!

Awesome. Smiley
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