terrypin Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 If I add a Window Activate command to the end of the macro I described in this thread about opening a Windows folder, it sometimes sorts it as well! Back to Name order, instead of the Modified order I keep it in. About one time in every ten. But as I use this frequently, that's irritatating. Anyone ever encounter similar behaviour please, or have any insights into what might be causing it? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randallf Posted July 6, 2009 Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 If I add a Window Activate command to the end of the macro I described in this thread about opening a Windows folder, it sometimes sorts it as well! Back to Name order, instead of the Modified order I keep it in. About one time in every ten. But as I use this frequently, that's irritatating. Anyone ever encounter similar behaviour please, or have any insights into what might be causing it? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK When opening windows in windows explorer there is a default state for new windows and another state for existing windows. There is also some insanity with how it decides what is a new window, if you launch it from within a session from the file menu it will inherit certain views but new launched explorer.exe processes to view folders have a state in XP that you can set by going to tools > folder options > view and clicking 'apply to folders'... I think that dialogue has an explanation too... and I'm not sure how macro express goes about opening a folder to browse, probably by issuing c:\whatever\folder\ to shell. I made some assumptions there and maybe that's a bit disorganized but suffice to say I think you need to look at the default views. Just a thought! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrypin Posted July 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 When opening windows in windows explorer there is a default state for new windows and another state for existing windows. There is also some insanity with how it decides what is a new window, if you launch it from within a session from the file menu it will inherit certain views but new launched explorer.exe processes to view folders have a state in XP that you can set by going to tools > folder options > view and clicking 'apply to folders'... I think that dialogue has an explanation too... and I'm not sure how macro express goes about opening a folder to browse, probably by issuing c:\whatever\folder\ to shell. I made some assumptions there and maybe that's a bit disorganized but suffice to say I think you need to look at the default views. Just a thought! Thanks, I'll tinker around along those lines to see if any clues to this unpredictability show up. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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