Hi Don,
To add text to the "Comment" column for directories so that it will show up in a
column next to Name, Size, Type, Modified, etc., use a Desktop.ini file and an
"Infotip=YourComment" line.
For example, if you want to add the comment "My Directory of Temporary Files" to a
directory named D:\MyTemp:
- If necessary change your Explorer view options as follows:
Control Panel > Folder Options > View [tab]:
Uncheck: "Hide file extensions for known file types"
- Use Explorer to navigate to D:\MyTemp
- Right-click on D:\MyTemp and choose Properties, in the Attributes section click
Read-only, click Apply, click OK to Apply changes to this folder only, click OK
- Right-click in the file list control area of D:\MyTemp and choose
New > Text Document
- Rename New Text Document to: desktop.ini
- Double-click desktop.ini, add the following two lines, and save the file:
[.ShellClassInfo]
InfoTip=My Directory of Temporary Files
Now, if the Comment column is enabled when you select D:\ in Explorer, you should
see your text.
For an example (most likely) on your computer, do this:
- If necessary change your Explorer view options as follows:
Control Panel > Folder Options > View [tab]:
Select: "Show hidden files and folders"
Uncheck: "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)"
- Use Explorer to navigate to the following directory:
...\Documents and Settings\Administrator
- If necessary, enable the "Comment" column. Note that the comment next to the
Recent folder says "History Folder"
- Double-click that Recent folder
- Double-click desktop.ini
- Note the line: "InfoTip=History Folder"
For more information about customizing a folder using desktop.ini see:
Customizing Folders with Desktop.ini
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...hell_basics/shell_basics_extending/custom.asp
Customizing your Computer in Desktop.ini
http://www.geocities.com/registrylord/desktop.txt
--
Carrie Garth, Microsoft MVP for Windows 2000
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- c x g
: "Don G." <dong AT unionbankvt DOT com>
: Wrote in message : Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 03:02 PM
: Does anybody know if its possible to add comments to
: folders? (Kind of like adding comments to MS Exchage
: email groups)We have about a dozen shared drives in our
: domain and there has been dozens of folders created in
: each drive over the years for one reason or another that
: nobody seems to know what they are for. I thought if I
: could add some discriptive comments in the detail view of
: each folder. Something like when it was made, why it was
: made which department uses it, etc, it would help the next
: guy down the road that is doing what I am doing. (Trying
: to figure out what is being used and what is junk!)