Sunday, December 21, 2014

Also "Resurrected Again" = Windows 8.1


Call this one "Daylight In The Swamp"...

And now, let's get "picky" shall we? Questioning Everything....


Why do I get this...


When I really wanted this...

And why can't I set this more detailed view as my default? Why does it always revert to that guess-what-we-aren't-showing-you? view up above? Did its designers assume we aren't capable of using the whole damned thing? If I bought a car with three dozen useful extras on it, would I settle for only being able to see a third of them when I looked for them? Of course not!! 

And how do you reset the Screenshots counter in Windows 8.1?

Just to review for a moment, in Windows 8, to reset that Screenshots  counter back to "one" after you dumped out its folder to clear out old screenshots that you won't need again, here's what we did:-

We held down the Windows Key plus "R" to get the "Run" box up, and then in it we typed "Regedit.exe" (without quotes) and clicked "OK" to bring up Registry Editor. In it, we navigated to H-Key Current User-Software-Microsoft-Windows-Current Version-Explorer. We clicked on that word "Explorer" in the left column, to see all its "Dwords" and stuff in the right-hand column, and we looked for a Dword named "ScreenshotIndex" and we right-clicked on that to bring up a little choice saying "Modify", and we again right-clicked that to get a little window allowing us to change its hexadecimal value from whatever back to "01", and then we clicked "OK" and closed Registry Editor.

But you can't do that in Windows 8.1 until you create that Dword in the right-hand pane at "Explorer", and then continue from there by right-clicking your new Dword "ScreenshotIndex" to get "Modify" and then assign it a new hexadecimal value of "01". And that brings me to today's Question Everything, which is: "Who quit for lunch break while working on this, and never came back??" ( And aren't you glad I fixed it for you? )


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