WINDOWS7 - MESSAGE to MICROSOFT - AVOID this BUG INHERITED FROM VISTA for 3 YEARS!!!

I know it's you, Mark Levitski.

Status bar does not show size, only number of files in the folder.

Keep up to date. All you're doing is living in past and complaining about
it isn't helping anyone.

 

They didn't deny it either, sure types like that troll. Surprised they
aren't promoting some "better 3rd party software that works much
better!" like he was for the other "horrible disastrous thing wrong with
vista".

 

It's called the Details Pane.
FWIW, I do not see the behavior you describe in my Vista x86 Home Premium
SP2.
Nor in Windows 7 x64.

 

I do not have this problem in Vista SP2 or Windows 7 RC.
I believe you mean Details Pane, I don't have a status bar.
I hope your rant has made you feel better.

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In WinExplorer make sure Statusbar is enabled. Open a folder which contains
at least one file (+ possibly subfolders), select any file & check its size
in the Statusbar - Statusbar will show the correct size (can verify by mouse
rightclick on file-->properties-->check size). Now is the ridiculous part:
Press "F5" or refresh that folder, select the same file again & check size
in Statusbar. You'll be surprised (in my case angry), as Statusbar will
show WRONG size The size will be doubled, now shift focus from that file
to others in that folder, scroll down again to this file with arrow keys &
check Statusbar. The filesize will be even larger. You can repeat until
size grows to TERABYTES, despite the actual size verified by mouse
rightclick-->properties still unchanged.

It's not an insignificant bug or one to be ignored - I see even Vista
ServicePack SP1 did NOT fix it!!! It makes professional people angry b/c
we're the ones using WinExplorer in LIST view almost exclusively (due to
working with hundreds if not thousands of files in one Directoty... or a
folder as it assumed a childish name since WinXP), only List view is
natural. Also Details view becomes corrupt if user selects
Windows system-wide colors as Black background, with silver/light fonts -
the columns by which you sort files in WinExplorer in Details view becomes
CORRUPT color-wise (white background, white foints, invisible!). But that's
another topic. So being in List view, you simply scroll up/down with arrow
keys in WinXP, but due to this crappy bug in Vista you never know what
STatus bar is showing - inflated or real filesize if you ever used
F5/refresh in that folder! The only way to avoid is to switch to another
folder, and goback to this one - is that how busienss now to be coneducted?
Waste time on this??

I don't care about garbage Vista OS anymore & won't be sending complains
profusely, IF and only IF these are fixed in Windows7. The absolutely best
OS you ever made was WindowsXP where XP is indeed
justfied (stands for EXPERIENCE), Vista was a step (or 50 steps) BACKWARDS,
why did I upgrade? The plan was to keep WinXp until I am either in grave or
Windows7 is verified to be clean of Vista
rubbish, but due to a disaster I had to perform system overhaul and WinXP
disk was discovered to be lost. We rushed to a local retailer unable to
wait for WinXP shipment from a Web e-tailer, and all they had were Vistas.
I thought why not take the plunge? I am now so sorry. I don't even have
time to kill this OS and goback to WInXP due to so many settings to be
restored & GIGABYTES of documents ot be
moved, again, one week was enough from XP to Vista.
I'd like to get over Vista, forget this horror, and ask to PLEASE don't let
these bugs slip into Windows7. Because who knows we might keep WindowsXP
even then, if Win7 insists on slowl productivity vs.
WinXP. Please fix this Statusbar bug for the starters.

 

Plonked again!

 

<elsnippo moronic rant #5>

What's up, moron. Do you actually think a name change can fool me?

 

Now what? You gonna get down on your knees and give him a happy ending?

Once a moron, always a moron.

 

Status bar does not show size

You've just exposed yourself.
Statusbar is EXTENSIVELY used in WinXP, 2000/NY, 98, etc; look let's cut off
anything older than WinXP, I agree it's antique history.

I am talking about WinXP professionals only use LIST view, no thumbnails,
crapnails, tiles, etc.
Because we work with thousands of iles locate din a single folder. In
normal Windows & most other OS's if you scroll up/down with arrow key you
expec tto see some basic info in STtausbar (else why do you call it STATUS
bar?).
It's was superconvenient. It sould show filesize, etc as focus moved form
one file to another quickly, as you press up/down arrows.
Freed disk remaining, totoal size, etc.

Now you excuse Redmond Knuckleheads for fouling it up?!?
There's a bug, I found many other people reporting it and I the reason it
needs to be re-reported so that KNUCKLEHEADS FIX IT in WIndows7.
because it wasn't fixed in Vista SP!!! Hey chekc SP2, I bet its still
there.

Knuckleheads think everyone is using f-g thumbnails or tiles view and
doesn't care for filesizes becasue all they do is playing musi cand watching
movies on computers, huh?
We work on computers, we need statusbar and this is a known bug, stop
denying reality.

Filesize is a bug, it keeps stacking up previous file's size until you rfile
shows like 10 TERABYTE size, how lame is that?

Did you get this behavior in WinXP? No teven in Win3.1!!!!

 

Keep upto date... well it's not fixed, so? Old or not, the problem is still
here in SP1 service pack!
Why do you hail something as a flagship, wonderful advanced product when
it's inferior to predecessor in FUNCTION, even though appearance is so
flashy, bright, and attractive to kids (Aero Tricks anyone?)?

 

Plonked yet again!

 

Err WHO are you talking to? Idiot.

 

If you don't see that behavior 2 possibilities exist:

1) Good one:
It was fixed from SPO2 onward, But only because people like us REPORTED it
(so we did Microsoft's programmers job for free).

2) Bad one:
You did not create an identical test environment.

I can't tell from here, remotely.

 

Please read original posting carefully.

I said LIST view, NOT Details.
Second I said to enable Statusbar, goto View-->Show statusbar.

If you work on computers in File manager... errr WindowsExplorer, as a
professional with gigantic folders containing hundreds if not thousands of
files, you never turn off statusbar.
I don't even remember when it didn't exist, maybe 15 years ago?

It's a commonly used feature, and there's an extra reason for it fo rpeople
using Black desktop/windows background - already explaiend in a separate
post, how DETAILS view gets corrupted when the column by which you sort out
files becomes invisible (white text on white background). That's separate,
and just another blow to Vista.
Forget that.
Just switch to List view, and have status bar enabled. check filesize of
any file, then F5/refresh, scroll back to thatfile, see wrong size in
statusbar, repeat, see that size increased again. It's almost funny.
it will give you a size in Terabytes in the end.

Now this bug was reported by people working for various computer
publications, media , testers, etc I jjust discovered in the past 2 hours
it's been widely reported.
And not fixed in SP11!!! I am not inventing it frm thin air, one thing
which makes me angry is when someone uneducated is trying to convey their
point to someone who was almost a professor oF Electrical Engineering... I
know this is a bug upward to SP1.
That being said now a conclusion:
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If you don't see that behavior in SP2 or Windows7 (which is the only Windows
I care about now) two possibilities exist:

1) Good one:
It was fixed from SP2 onward. But only because people like us REPORTED it
(so we did Microsoft's programmers job for free).

2) Bad one:
You did not create an identical test environment.

I can't tell from here, remotely.

 

No it can't You're a fool proof MS shareholder.
But nobody cares for your opinion now, the bug was reported to people who
make decisions, not who annoy us, customers, on MS-funded Newsgroups.

 

Err no - REPLY TO THREAD - not changing the subject.
Moron. Read up on USENET......

 

Plonk. MORON.....

 

There is no "Statusbar".
There is a "Details Pane", which shows information about the files.
Even in "LIST view" the "Details Pane" shows the correct information.

Are you sure you're even using Vista?

 

This useless shitstain still isn't sure if he's supposed to do pee-pee in
the toilet.

 

"ROBERT MACK" a.k.a Mark Levitzki