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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: fohat.digs on Wed, 24 April 2013, 17:36:23
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Suddenly, in Windows Explorer, whenever I right-click on a folder to create "New Folder" the only option it gives me is "New Briefcase"
What the heck is a briefcase (I semi-know the answer) but why is that my only option? How do I get the choice to create "New Folder" back?
Also, unrelated to that, why is it that Windows Media Player randomly selects a song to play? In Explorer, if I go to an album, select all (I have always used "Control-A" for this), right-click on the first song, and select "Play" it has always played the songs, in order.
Now, for whatever reason, it seems to start on any random song, almost never the first one, nor the one my cursor was on when I made my selection.
Is this me, or is something messed up?
Thanks!
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Personally i recommend Clementine for audio. Never liked the mediaplayer from MS. But i think you can surely remove the songs and it has a random play option.
Not sure about the briefcase. Check for malware or virus. Never had a behavior like that. btw. is that a uk version? Perhaps thats the reason. Just a guess actually.
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shellnew handler (http://sourceforge.net/projects/shellnewhandler/) should allow you fix the first issue. No idea about wmp as I haven't used it in like 15 years.
If folder does not show up in there, then you will have to do it the hard way... make the following into a .reg file
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{11dbb47c-a525-400b-9e80-a54615a090c0}]
@="CLSID_ExecuteFolder"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{11dbb47c-a525-400b-9e80-a54615a090c0}\InProcServer32]
@="ExplorerFrame.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\New]
@="{D969A300-E7FF-11d0-A93B-00A0C90F2719}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder]
@="Folder"
"EditFlags"=hex:d2,03,00,00
"FullDetails"="prop:System.PropGroup.Description;System.ItemNameDisplay;System.ItemType;System.Size"
"ThumbnailCutoff"=dword:00000000
"TileInfo"="prop:System.Title;System.PropGroup.Description;System.ItemType"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\DefaultIcon]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\
65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,33,00,00,00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore]
"MultiSelectModel"="Document"
"BrowserFlags"=dword:00000022
"ExplorerFlags"=dword:00000021
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
65,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,65,00,70,00,61,00,72,00,61,00,74,00,65,00,2c,00,2f,\
00,65,00,2c,00,2f,00,69,00,64,00,6c,00,69,00,73,00,74,00,2c,00,25,00,49,00,\
2c,00,25,00,4c,00,00,00
"DelegateExecute"="{11dbb47c-a525-400b-9e80-a54615a090c0}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open]
"MultiSelectModel"="Document"
"BrowserFlags"=dword:00000010
"ExplorerFlags"=dword:00000012
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
65,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,65,00,70,00,61,00,72,00,61,00,74,00,65,00,2c,00,2f,\
00,69,00,64,00,6c,00,69,00,73,00,74,00,2c,00,25,00,49,00,2c,00,25,00,4c,00,\
00,00
"DelegateExecute"="{11dbb47c-a525-400b-9e80-a54615a090c0}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ColumnHandlers]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ColumnHandlers\{F9DB5320-233E-11D1-9F84-707F02C10627}]
@="PDF Column Info"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\BriefcaseMenu]
@="{85BBD920-42A0-1069-A2E4-08002B30309D}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Offline Files]
@="{474C98EE-CF3D-41f5-80E3-4AAB0AB04301}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{a2a9545d-a0c2-42b4-9708-a0b2badd77c8}]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\DragDropHandlers]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\DragDropHandlers\{BD472F60-27FA-11cf-B8B4-444553540000}]
@=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\BriefcasePage]
@="{85BBD920-42A0-1069-A2E4-08002B30309D}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\Offline Files]
@="{7EFA68C6-086B-43e1-A2D2-55A113531240}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\ShellNew]
"Directory"=""
"IconPath"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,\
74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,\
00,68,00,65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,33,00,\
00,00
"ItemName"="@shell32.dll,-30396"
"MenuText"="@shell32.dll,-30317"
"NonLFNFileSpec"="@shell32.dll,-30319"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\ShellNew\Config]
"AllDrives"=""
"IsFolder"=""
"NoExtension"=""
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Thanks for the help. I am going to try one other thing, then I may have to go your route.
As far as music listening goes, I am so old-fashioned as to be archaic. I grew up listening to records, where you get the record off the shelf, put it on the turntable, and play it. You can select a single song if you want to go to the trouble, or not.
When CDs came along, it was pretty much the same. It was nice to be able to program the player to skip songs, or change the order, but I seldom did it.
I still listen that way. I have a huge collection of digital music, organized on a dedicated hard drive as genre/artist/album, and I still listen to albums (or individual songs) in their entirety most of the time.
I don't even know what a "playlist" is, although I have a vague understanding that it is the virtual equivalent of a "mix-CD" without limitations. I have never used one, and don't know how. I have burned a lot of mix CDs, for myself and others, and still do.
Like most other things, I favor simplicity in the extreme. My perfect music player is to use Windows Explorer to select some set of music files, unique each time, click "Play" and simply have the music start playing. Anything else is just cumbersome obstructions to me enjoying my music.
So, I understand that I am a hopeless curmudgeon who is out of touch with the modern world.
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Never did figure this out, but I re-installed Classic Shell from Source Forge and it came back properly.
I cleared out a bunch of weird stuff that was auto-loading, it might have happened in there.
During my search, I also learned that "Control-Shift-N" creates a new folder wherever you are in Windows Explorer, I never knew that and it will be very handy.
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speaking off strange Win7 behavior... wonder if anyone else ever gets this problem; when booting up my machine sometimes (maybe like once every two or three months windows will boot and be fine, except when you open and minimize windows to and from the task bar they will animate really slowly... almost in slow motion, I don't really notice it too much until I open starcraft for example and everything is running slower... screen movement (cursor) and it feels like its lagging... its really odd and goes away after a reboot... my CPU is overclocked could it be related to that ??
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@baldgye - are you by any chance using a wd green drive in your computer?
@fohat.digs - you should check out foobar2000. It can show your music the way you structure your folders - and instead of selecting all the files in the folder manually in windows explorer, you could just right click on the album and set it to a new list to play. sounds perfect for the way you use it.
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@baldgye - are you by any chance using a wd green drive in your computer?
No, my C drive is a 120gb Samsung SSD (the most recent no-pro version)
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@baldgye - are you by any chance using a wd green drive in your computer?
No, my C drive is a 120gb Samsung SSD (the most recent no-pro version)
what about storage drives? I ask this because I have several of these older 'green' drives as slave drives, and even when they're not system drives, their powering down causes the 'slow-motion animation' you speak of whenever accessing a file on those drives after a period of not using them.
if you suspect it's an overclocking problem, you should get monitoring programs and watch the temperatures. if the cpu throttles due to heat, it could cause lag, but from the scenario you described (lag when starting starcraft), it is unlikely that overclocking is the problem.
Anything else I can think of now would be absolutely wild guesses without knowing more details about your system.
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@fohat.digs - you should check out foobar2000. It can show your music the way you structure your folders - and instead of selecting all the files in the folder manually in windows explorer, you could just right click on the album and set it to a new list to play. sounds perfect for the way you use it.
foobar2000 is my default player for flacs. I have had it for a while but don't use it very much. Generally I convert flacs to moderate-to-high bit mp3s and that is how I keep my compressed collection.
I may delve into it some more later. Thanks.
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@baldgye - are you by any chance using a wd green drive in your computer?
No, my C drive is a 120gb Samsung SSD (the most recent no-pro version)
what about storage drives? I ask this because I have several of these older 'green' drives as slave drives, and even when they're not system drives, their powering down causes the 'slow-motion animation' you speak of whenever accessing a file on those drives after a period of not using them.
if you suspect it's an overclocking problem, you should get monitoring programs and watch the temperatures. if the cpu throttles due to heat, it could cause lag, but from the scenario you described (lag when starting starcraft), it is unlikely that overclocking is the problem.
Anything else I can think of now would be absolutely wild guesses without knowing more details about your system.
Yeah I've had a quick butchers at the cpu and I don't think its the overclocking... most of my programs run off a TB samsung drive but windows is on my SSD... so im not too sure... its defo strange though lol
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@fohat.digs - you should check out foobar2000. It can show your music the way you structure your folders - and instead of selecting all the files in the folder manually in windows explorer, you could just right click on the album and set it to a new list to play. sounds perfect for the way you use it.
foobar2000 is my default player for flacs. I have had it for a while but don't use it very much. Generally I convert flacs to moderate-to-high bit mp3s and that is how I keep my compressed collection.
I may delve into it some more later. Thanks.
foobar is great, though it seem to me more complicated so that why i never use it. But it does have tons of addons which is great.
Personally, i store my files in ogg format and only convert them to mp3 if i have to like transfering to a player.
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Yea Ctrl+Shift+N FTW have it as a macro on my mouse (I like to organize)
I recommended foobar as well I can recommend some good plugins too.