Network Neighborhood
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Network Neighborhood
When you view the local network neighborhood in Windows 7 does not appear the names of the computers in the column Size. In Windows XP/2003 Server everything is displayed correctly.
How to do it and is it possible?
I would very much like to see the same thing in Windows 7. Thanks
How to do it and is it possible?
I would very much like to see the same thing in Windows 7. Thanks
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Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. I'm using Windows XP as my main development system, and there are no computer names shown in the size column.
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What is the path of the screenshots you provided?
What is the path of the screenshots you provided?
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TC 11.03 32+64bit on Win XP 32bit & Win 7, 8.1 & 10 (22H2) 64bit, 'Everything' 1.5.0.1371a
TC 3.50b4 on Android 6 & 13
Try: TC Extended Menus | TC Languagebar | TC Dark Help | PHSM-Calendar
Ghisler> Maybe your computers don't have descriptions set?
For XP: My Computer->Properties->Computer Name->Computer description
petermad> On XP I have to go through \\My Network Places->Entire Network->Microsoft Windows Network->MyWorkgroup and the finally displayed path is \\MyWorkgroup\*.*
On Win7 the computers are shown directly in Network neighborhood together with FS plugins.
For XP: My Computer->Properties->Computer Name->Computer description
petermad> On XP I have to go through \\My Network Places->Entire Network->Microsoft Windows Network->MyWorkgroup and the finally displayed path is \\MyWorkgroup\*.*
On Win7 the computers are shown directly in Network neighborhood together with FS plugins.
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You are right, I didn't have any descriptions set. I have checked that now, TC loads descriptions only in subfolders of the Network Neighborhood, not in the base folder. I don't remember why exactly I did that, but they were causing some troubles in nethood itself...
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But in Windows 7 all network computers seem to appear in the base folder only. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, as I usually don't use it, but I'm unable to browse the workgroups like it was possible in XP, the Entire Network link is missing. But it's not only in TC, also in Windows interface to network it's nowhere to be found.
I googled up one workaround. The shortcut for My Network Places copied from XP to Win7 allows to access Entire Network folder and individual workgroups.
It's this file and it's ... lets say interesting:
In case it's not only me doing something wrong and Entire Network folder is really normally not accessible on Win7, maybe TC could show link to it?
I googled up one workaround. The shortcut for My Network Places copied from XP to Win7 allows to access Entire Network folder and individual workgroups.
It's this file and it's ... lets say interesting:
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MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="My Network Places.lnk"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="My Network Places.lnk"
TAAAAAEUAgAAAAAAwAAAAAAAAEaBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABYAFAAfWGAsjSDqOmkQotcIACswMJ0AAAAAAAA=
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That's a very good idea, I will add it to my wish list!
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Thanks - I can confirm that I have descriptions under XP.On XP I have to go through \\My Network Places->Entire Network->Microsoft Windows Network->MyWorkgroup and the finally displayed path is \\MyWorkgroup\*.*
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I cannot promise that I can show the comments in nethood, it didn't work when I tried it at the time, and it may not work at all - but I will try it. However, I will try to show "My Network Places" also on Vista/7, I miss it a lot there...
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computer description in size column of network neighborhood
It is useful to see "computer description" in network neighborhood. [Alt-F2, look for the backslash. The view must be "Full" i.e. ctrl-F2. The description appears in the "size" column]
I wanted to see more information (owner, permissions, free space etc) so I experimented with Custom Columns. Unfortunately all of my custom columns gave blanks. I tried columns based TC, shelldetails.wdx, DirSizeCalc.wdx etc.
I gave up, but please let me know if there is another approach.
I wanted to see more information (owner, permissions, free space etc) so I experimented with Custom Columns. Unfortunately all of my custom columns gave blanks. I tried columns based TC, shelldetails.wdx, DirSizeCalc.wdx etc.
I gave up, but please let me know if there is another approach.
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Unfortunately custom columns only work with real files (accessible via windows functions like FindFirstfile, CreateFile), not with virtual folders.
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