Vista: modified explorer and more

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    In general, a lot has changed in Vista, both in functionality and in the interface part. Much for the better, but there are stupidities. I will write about everything that I notice. All conclusions are subjective .
    In this post I want to talk about changes in Explorer'e (aka Explorer).
    To get started - a screenshot (click to enlarge): The following is a list of the changes that I discovered. (This is a redone log of correspondence with one girl, so do not be surprised if you find elements of direct speech there)
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    1. address bar. she has 3 conditions. such as in the screenshot - beautifully indicates the path. further - you move the cursor and the arrows turn into buttons - you can select folders from the list (subfolders) and go to them by clicking the mouse. hellishly comfortable. and the third - if you like to use Claudia - click on an empty space and get the standard, good old, text line

    2. go down. something like a taskbar. in XP, it is on the right in view of html links, if not folder mode is enabled. for some reason in XP I didn’t use it nirazu, and it takes up a bunch of places. here I use constantly. he is more beautiful and more comfortable. 3. It is much more convenient

    3. there is no heap of stupid File Tools Help and other mucks
    if suddenly (why ???) are necessary - press alt and they will appear

    4. Favorite Links - what I have been missing for a long time, what I have on Makos - my favorite folders. Reduce the number of actions much (for some reason, from the Favorites menu in XP I was too lazy to choose)
    5. The folder tree is visible by default (it can be minimized)! in XP it constantly included this tree, without it there was no
    6. There are no damn My prefixes (My ...) in folders. My computer, my documents ... I always thought it was nonsense. By the way, there is no moronic “Documents and Settings” either. Now it is “Users”. Personally, I was very pleased.
    7. Convenient organization of folders Music, Pictures and more. What exactly is convenient? there is no ****** folder My Documents AT ALL, in which everything else is already. Like in XP. I constantly had to create the Documents folder in the My Documents folder. Idiocy. And in general, why is the music in the documents? ... krch - nonsense.

    8. Further - for fans of Thumbnails - their size can be changed on the fly

    9. If the file extension display mode is turned on, with F2 (rename) only the name (without .txt) is highlighted - a trifle, but nice. albeit often changing the extension. (note - no one forbids manually highlighting the extension, or removing it with delete.)
    10. Do you like things like tags? I personally am not very used to them. but for those who love, they are supported by the exporter. those. you can sculpt right here. right there you can make Stack By -> Tags and get virtual folders with the names of all tags - each will contain files with this tag. (Update: Apparently, I was mistaken - they can only be modeled with pics. Very sorry)

    11. Preview for files now is
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    12. convenient search (to the right of the address bar). Sodran from poppy - who cares?
    As for the minuses - I noticed that sometimes the icons in the Favorite folders get lost. What it is connected with is not yet known, but it infuriates.
    That's all for now.
    P.S. Some of the pluses - does not apply to explorer, but to the file system device. Sorry for the mess.

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