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Logdan wrote:I'm going to assume you mean auto arranging desktop icons. If so, right click the desktop, pick "View>Auto Arrange Icons", make sure it is unchecked.
If this isn't what you mean, can you clarify a bit?
Problem:
Not being able to drag the order of files and images around to my liking is an immensely irritating limitation for me and all professionals who constantly work with images. It's even more irritating in that W7 is inconsistent in allowing it on the desktop but not anywhere else.
Solution:
Please allow us to rearrange our items in our own fashion that does not involve renaming all of our files or even taking our hands off the mouse. This limitation seriously cuts into productivity, and it is a simple, essential, extremely useful function that is available in every OS to my immediate knowledge.
Please allow us to untoggle Auto-arrange in Windows Explorer.
danny e. wrote:where is the option to sort photos by best looking MS? of all your hundreds of idiotic sorting methods you didnt think of that one? yeah you dumbtard manager.
crazybus wrote:danny e. wrote:where is the option to sort photos by best looking MS? of all your hundreds of idiotic sorting methods you didnt think of that one? yeah you dumbtard manager.
Isn't that what the star ratings are for?
Skrying wrote:You can use ratings. You could use folders. You could even do what a reasonable person would do and use a program (or even just the photo browser in Windows) and do it that way. What type of person works with thousands of pictures and doesn't use a dedicated application to do their sorting with anyway? It seems you're complaining because, like some other people here, you work in an extremely bizarre way that's no longer supported. Sorry, the rest of the world has moved on to more sensible approaches.
danny e. wrote:crazybus wrote:danny e. wrote:where is the option to sort photos by best looking MS? of all your hundreds of idiotic sorting methods you didnt think of that one? yeah you dumbtard manager.
Isn't that what the star ratings are for?
So, you're suggesting to add another step in which I have to rate thousands of photos?
Meadows wrote:This is based on user metrics gathered - the majority might* need this on the desktop, but they simply never bother while browsing inside folders.
*I don't, give me global auto-arrange any day
PS. They made a lot of changes based on information gathered from "the majority" that I don't like either, but thankfully they reverted one of their bouts of retardation before launch which is why I gave it a chance nonetheless.
Logdan wrote:Have you considered using tags? You can add/remove them to many files at once using Windows Explorer, and this would allow you to sort your photos in other ways (size, date created, etc) and still with a few clicks get them back to your desired (focus, out of focus) sorting.
danny e. wrote:you really think adding a bunch of steps is a "more sensible approach". yeah, you're a bright one. you should work for MS customer service.
mattsteg wrote:This thread is bizarre. People really have thousands of photos in a folder and don't want to sort them? That's just weird.
danny e. wrote:thanks for the necro. now i'm pissed about this again. also the retarded win7 start menu that is annoying as sh*t.
it's 2012 and you're taking away the option for me to customize my own look/feel? I should be able to size my start menu how I want so it's very easy to use.
(ie, make it more usable than the old crap.. not less usable.)
It feels like microsoft didnt like the start menu, so with win7 they tried to make it a pain in the ass to use so people wouldnt complain so much when they take it away.
"hey, no one is using it anwyays". because you made it so sucky it annoys the sh*t out of everyone.
The idea of a "start page" like metro isnt a half bad idea. The implementation of the metro start on the desktop is atrocious and they should all be flogged.