There's no way they could have made this mistake. Look at software such as
Folder Size (http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/) it's open source, so it
should be easy to port - and it's very well done.

Question is, WHY ISN'T IT IN VISTA?

-Felix

"Jeff Gaines" wrote:

> On 26/11/2006 in message <OpSW9DaEHHA.3524@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl> Chad
> Harris wrote:
>
> >Jeff--
> >
> >The only column headers that show are the ones I choose to have show and I
> >can change that in any view the way I said or I can make them go away
> >completely by right clicking that folder icon or other icon on the lower
> >left. John Barnes pointed out how you can get a size assessment but I am
> >talking columns that show or don't show according to what I select in the
> >heading "MORE" as I said.
>
> This is getting a bit convoluted!
>
> The standard behaviour for a ListView is that columns are only shown in
> details view. Have a look at Explorer in XP, you shouldn't see any column
> headers in any other view except details whatever column choices you have
> made. They don't make sense since the data in the ListView is not lined up
> with the columns. If I switch to an icon view in Vista the headers are
> still there and one icon is in a column called 'Name' and the next icon is
> in a column called 'Date Modified' and so on, it doesn't make any sense at
> all. Just switch between views and look at it :-)
>
> I reckon an MS programmer has missed that completely and nobody has picked
> it up.
>
> --
> Jeff Gaines
>