XP's photo folder options gone in Vista(?)

When I insert a media card from my camera in the reader in XP, I chose the
autoplay option "Open folder to view files" as the default, and when it
opened the folder, there were a series of links on the left side, for things
like copy, move, burn to CD, etc.

This worked great, as I'd just select them all, click the "copy" link and a
browse box would open with my default new photos folder right
there...remembered from the last visit.

Now, in Vista I choose the same "open folder" option and the choices aren't
there. I looked through all the folder properties that I could find, and
could find no way to change it to that handy special-folder type
configuration from XP. Now, I have to select all and copy, and then have to
open another explorer window to browse to my new photos folder; and of
course, it's not there, selected by default when I do it that way.

While it's only one more annoyance and a little unnecessary effort, why on
earth would they have done away with this feature? I can't help but feel
that it's still there, somewhere hidden, and I could make that folder
default to the old photo folder type with links etc. Any ideas? All
suggestions appreciated.

Gary

Hi,

What was known as the Common Tasks pane has been removed for Vista.
Surprisingly, I heard more complaints about it than praise. I always thought
it somewhat useful, but I guess that was not the common consensus.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Gary R." <> wrote in message
news:...
> When I insert a media card from my camera in the reader in XP, I chose the
> autoplay option "Open folder to view files" as the default, and when it
> opened the folder, there were a series of links on the left side, for
> things like copy, move, burn to CD, etc.
>
> This worked great, as I'd just select them all, click the "copy" link and
> a browse box would open with my default new photos folder right
> there...remembered from the last visit.
>
> Now, in Vista I choose the same "open folder" option and the choices
> aren't there. I looked through all the folder properties that I could
> find, and could find no way to change it to that handy special-folder type
> configuration from XP. Now, I have to select all and copy, and then have
> to open another explorer window to browse to my new photos folder; and of
> course, it's not there, selected by default when I do it that way.
>
> While it's only one more annoyance and a little unnecessary effort, why on
> earth would they have done away with this feature? I can't help but feel
> that it's still there, somewhere hidden, and I could make that folder
> default to the old photo folder type with links etc. Any ideas? All
> suggestions appreciated.
>
> Gary
>

You could put a shortcut to your New Photos folder in the Sendto folder.
Then you could select all, right-click, Send To -> New Photos.

You could also put a shortcut to New Photos in the Favorite Links pane in
Explorer.


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]



"Gary R." <> wrote in message
news:...
> When I insert a media card from my camera in the reader in XP, I chose the
> autoplay option "Open folder to view files" as the default, and when it
> opened the folder, there were a series of links on the left side, for
> things like copy, move, burn to CD, etc.
>
> This worked great, as I'd just select them all, click the "copy" link and
> a browse box would open with my default new photos folder right
> there...remembered from the last visit.
>
> Now, in Vista I choose the same "open folder" option and the choices
> aren't there. I looked through all the folder properties that I could
> find, and could find no way to change it to that handy special-folder type
> configuration from XP. Now, I have to select all and copy, and then have
> to open another explorer window to browse to my new photos folder; and of
> course, it's not there, selected by default when I do it that way.
>
> While it's only one more annoyance and a little unnecessary effort, why on
> earth would they have done away with this feature? I can't help but feel
> that it's still there, somewhere hidden, and I could make that folder
> default to the old photo folder type with links etc. Any ideas? All
> suggestions appreciated.
>
> Gary
>

" Keith Miller (MVP)" <> wrote in message
news:...
> You could put a shortcut to your New Photos folder in the Sendto folder.
> Then you could select all, right-click, Send To -> New Photos.
>
> You could also put a shortcut to New Photos in the Favorite Links pane in
> Explorer.

Thanks, I didn't think about using the 'sendto', but that should work. Now
if I can just find the sendto folder again 8^). (put notepad in it a few
days ago, but I had a time finding it).

I hadn't even noticed or ever used a 'favorite links' pane, I'll "explore"
that option also.

Gary

Press Winkey+r. Type shell:sendto and press enter.

"Gary R." <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> " Keith Miller (MVP)" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> You could put a shortcut to your New Photos folder in the Sendto folder.
>> Then you could select all, right-click, Send To -> New Photos.
>>
>> You could also put a shortcut to New Photos in the Favorite Links pane in
>> Explorer.
>
> Thanks, I didn't think about using the 'sendto', but that should work.
> Now if I can just find the sendto folder again 8^). (put notepad in it a
> few days ago, but I had a time finding it).
>
> I hadn't even noticed or ever used a 'favorite links' pane, I'll "explore"
> that option also.
>
> Gary
>