#TOTALFINDER SHOW FILE SIZE IN STATUS BAR FREE#

Every time I need to see free disk space, I don't wish to go to Make if off by default, just don't remove the choice entirely. I request the shell team to reinstate free disk space, total size without selection and tooltip info on the status bar.

It is taking any control away from the user whose productivity reduces due to more keystrokes and more clicks to achieve the same task he did in Windows 95 without any clicks or keystrokes. Performance at the cost of features is bad way IMHO to engineer a product. I don't care about the folder opening 0.5 seconds faster. How did Microsoft determine its users needed this information once per week? Telemetry once again? I need it all the time. Things in Explorer since Vista has STILL NOT GONE AWAY!!!

No one cares if the folder opens half a second slower but they certainly do if I have do a dozen more clicks and/or keystrokes for each file in Explorer. To not any of the information #2, #3, #4 and #6 on the status bar.įeatures, features, features and productivity, productivity, productivity. The very least expectation is an option to turn this on even if Microsoft chooses by default

#TOTALFINDER SHOW FILE SIZE IN STATUS BAR WINDOWS 8#

It would be very re-assuring if someone from the shell team would take notice of this and fix the status bar by Windows 8 beta to show all of this useful information. Why is it that Microsoft continually makes changes to Explorer that make users' life more difficult, remove features and does not even allow third parties to fix Explorer problems by making use of private controls instead of standard Windows UI controls? Select more than 100 files and the status bar stops showing the total size of selected files. Total size of ALL files in a folder on the status bar without selecting them all (without reqĮven for #5, it only shows sizes up to 99 files. So Classic Shell is no longer able to fix these issues. Now in Windows 8, the status bar control is no longer a standard status bar control but uses private controls (DirectUI crap). Classic Shell came to the rescue of users for both OSes and fixed ALL status bar issues - #2, #3, #4, #5 and #6 and all bugs. (The Vista size mis-reporting bug and Windows 7 refresh bug still exist in these versions of Windows even with the latest service packs applied). Plus, another bug was introduced in Windows 7's status bar wherein it would not showĪny information sometimes unless the window was manually refreshed using F5. In Windows 7, #2, #4 and #5 were removed. Of these 6 features, #3 and #6 were removed in Windows Vista and size of a single file was mis-reported in Vista!! (Major bug). Tooltip information of single selected file Total size of selected files (not total size of all files, but selected files)Ħ. Total size of ALL files in a folder on the status bar without selecting them all (without requiring Ctrl+A)ĥ. At-a-glance free disk space on any volume at the current locationģ. (It can fix all of status bar issues on Windows 7/Vista).Ģ.

#TOTALFINDER SHOW FILE SIZE IN STATUS BAR WINDOWS 7#

This is the status bar from Windows 7 with Classic Shell installed. You see from Windows 95 to Windows XP - Explorer has had this very useful STATUS BAR that displayed very useful information. With Windows 8, Windows Explorer's status bar has ONCE AGAIN taken a major step back and Microsoft critically needs to fix it.

Totalfinder show file size in status bar