Ed,

Check this out. It's what I use.

http://zabkat.com/

JT

"Edward" <Edward@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B25ACEB7-B2D8-4974-AFF4-9335F6593235@microsoft.com...
> Hi there
>
> After working for a few weeks I noticed a few very very annoying things
> about the Windows Vista theme and functionality regarding the explorer. I
> use
> the explorer a lot, a few things got better (searching) and a few got
> worse:
>
> 1) Selected files are not easy to spot. In XP your selected files are easy
> to see. The backcolor in Vista is way too light (some kind of light blue
> fading to white on a whit background).
>
> How is it possible to chose use such a unclear selected background color +
> effect ?
>
> 2) My directory view has columns like 'Album', 'Rating'? when there is no
> music or other media in it. Why?
>
> I had to select a folder as admin and set the folders view (via de
> customize
> tab) to 'All items' then I select via folder options -> apply to all
> folders
> so all folders are set to this folder view.
>
> 3) when I mouseover the vertical scrollbar in the folder pane the little
> subfolder disappear. Need I to explain how annoying this is? Who did come
> up
> with such a idea?
>
> 4) I'm clicking on a .jpg. I expected a preview in that beautyfull big
> detailpane but what do I get? A big standard jpg icon, dimension
> information
> and add your ratings stuff. Ok I can turn this off easily and I just did
> that. But hey ... whats that?? de filepane shows me columns with
> ratings
> and stuff... nooo I had turn this off and now its here again! Even again
> in
> my css folders. It really is beginning to irritate me.
> PLEASE could someone explain to me WHY my css fileview has
> album-genre-artist-genre-rating columns ??
>
> Overall I like Vista but it's not a killer. As you can notice I'm
> dissapointed about some functionality in Vista. The explorer functionality
> is
> used a lot by every user so its important that is friendly and efficient.
> As
> I clearly pointed out it is not.
>
> Sincerely,
> Edward
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