Settings - Browsers
The Browser Settings dialog displays settings that affect all browsers (Folder Browsers and Tree Browsers).
There are also many settings that are individual to each instance of a Folder or Tree Browser. Such settings are accessed by clicking the right mouse button in the background area of that particular browser, so that the popup menu for that browser is shown.
Click the items of the dialog in fig 1 to access their help texts.
Fig 1: The Browser Settings dialog
These settings relate to recycling files, that is, deleting files so that they can be recovered from the Recycle Bin.
'Delete' key defaults to file deletion...
Pressing the Delete key when files are selected usually results in sending the selected files to the Recycle Bin.
By checking this option, the files will be fully deleted, rather than moved to the recycle bin, when the Delete key is pressed.
Show file operation dialog when recycling files
When recycling files, Windows will (outside the control of Probe) display a dialog to confirm the action. If also the ordinary file operation dialog is shown, the recycling must be confirmed twice.
By clearing this option, only a single confirmation is needed.
Display file operation dialog when dropping files
Checking this option causes Probe to display the file operation dialog when dropping files, using either the left or right mouse button. This gives the option of inspecting the files being moved/copied, and controlling other aspects of the file operation.
When clearing this option, the file operation is started with no confirmation.
Allow multiple instances of Probe
When this check-box is set, several instances (different processes) of Probe can be started at the same time.
With this checked cleared, only a single instance of Probe can be started. Attempting to start a new instance will results in the first instance being activated.
Some folders in the Win32 browsing space do not contain file objects, but rather different types of services. Examples of such folders are:
The folders above are also called 'Shell Folders', in contrast with 'File Folders', in which the items are stored files, rather than services.
The items in Shell Folders often have different fields of information, as compared to file folders. To accommodate this, Probe can incorporate an OLE object within the Probe main window, when browsing a Shell Folder.
Disable shell folders in fixed drives
This settings disables showing any shell folders in disk drives (C:\, D:\, ...,\\AServer\ASharedDrive, ...). Shell folders located higher in the storage tree (as compared to drives) are still available though (Control Panel, Printers,...).
This option is useful when wanting to view the actual file contents of Shell Folders in disk drives.
Disable OLE browsing of shell folders
This disables using OLE objects to browse Shell Folders. Instead, the ordinary Folder Browser of Probe is used to display the contents of Shell Folders, resulting in only the name of the objects being shown.
Browse 'My Computer' as OLE folder
This option causes the folder My Computer to be browsed as an OLE object, that is, it appears as it would within the MS Explorer.
These settings affect how filenames are presented/modified in Folder and Tree Browsers.
Usually, a filename can be edited by putting the cursor atop of the filename and then clicking it once. Sometimes this can be experienced as annoying, and this check box disables filename editing using the mouse.
In FAT16 drives (FAT16 is file system preceding FAT32), files can have both a short filename (8 letters + 3 letters for file type extension) and a long filename.
When checked, this setting causes the short (8+3) filename to be displayed when browsing FAT16 drives.
When a filename only contains upper case letters:
- AFILE.TXT
it will be presented as:
- Afile.txt
Checking this option disables the conversion above.
Filename coloring is used to indicate the state of a file or folder. If the file has no particular state, it's name is usually painted using black color.
This enables/disables filename coloring to emphasize file state.
To edit the colors used for emphasizing states, use this button. It will invoke the Filename Coloring dialog.
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