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From: Etaoin Shrdlu on 7 Mar 2010 20:47 On 3/7/2010 12:17 PM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote: > On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:41:36 -0000, "Tim Meddick" > <timmeddick(a)gawab.com> wrote: > > >> I cannot tell you how to accomplish what you want. >> >> But I can tell you that both the effect that Removable Drives [Class] do not display >> Total and Free Space (as InfoTips) and that the option to Make Partition Active >> should be greyed out in Disk Management. >> >> Both of these behaviours is normal if undesirable. >> >> I too think; "why shouldn't free-space be displayed on Removable Drives, just as it >> is on fixed disks?" >> >> But the facts are that they aren't. > > > Interesting. I had never noticed this, so I wanted to check it. I > don't have an XP machine handy to check it on, so I only checked in > Windows 7. In Windows 7, free space is displayed on removable drive, > just as with fixed ones. > > So, if you don't mind my asking, are you sure of what you say? Can you > check it one more time? > WinXP Home, SP3, no display for flash drives.
From: Ken Blake, MVP on 7 Mar 2010 21:00 On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:47:42 -0600, Etaoin Shrdlu <etaoin(a)shrdlu.net> wrote: > On 3/7/2010 12:17 PM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:41:36 -0000, "Tim Meddick" > > <timmeddick(a)gawab.com> wrote: > > > > > >> I cannot tell you how to accomplish what you want. > >> > >> But I can tell you that both the effect that Removable Drives [Class] do not display > >> Total and Free Space (as InfoTips) and that the option to Make Partition Active > >> should be greyed out in Disk Management. > >> > >> Both of these behaviours is normal if undesirable. > >> > >> I too think; "why shouldn't free-space be displayed on Removable Drives, just as it > >> is on fixed disks?" > >> > >> But the facts are that they aren't. > > > > > > Interesting. I had never noticed this, so I wanted to check it. I > > don't have an XP machine handy to check it on, so I only checked in > > Windows 7. In Windows 7, free space is displayed on removable drive, > > just as with fixed ones. > > > > So, if you don't mind my asking, are you sure of what you say? Can you > > check it one more time? > > > > WinXP Home, SP3, no display for flash drives. Thanks. So XP and 7 must be different in that regard. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup
From: Etaoin Shrdlu on 7 Mar 2010 23:28 On 3/7/2010 8:00 PM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote: > On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:47:42 -0600, Etaoin Shrdlu<etaoin(a)shrdlu.net> > wrote: > >> On 3/7/2010 12:17 PM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote: >>> On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:41:36 -0000, "Tim Meddick" >>> <timmeddick(a)gawab.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I cannot tell you how to accomplish what you want. >>>> >>>> But I can tell you that both the effect that Removable Drives [Class] do not display >>>> Total and Free Space (as InfoTips) and that the option to Make Partition Active >>>> should be greyed out in Disk Management. >>>> >>>> Both of these behaviours is normal if undesirable. >>>> >>>> I too think; "why shouldn't free-space be displayed on Removable Drives, just as it >>>> is on fixed disks?" >>>> >>>> But the facts are that they aren't. >>> >>> >>> Interesting. I had never noticed this, so I wanted to check it. I >>> don't have an XP machine handy to check it on, so I only checked in >>> Windows 7. In Windows 7, free space is displayed on removable drive, >>> just as with fixed ones. >>> >>> So, if you don't mind my asking, are you sure of what you say? Can you >>> check it one more time? >>> >> >> WinXP Home, SP3, no display for flash drives. > > > > Thanks. So XP and 7 must be different in that regard. > So we have at least one documented improvement. :>)
From: Llibert on 8 Mar 2010 04:21 Thank you again for the attention that all of you paid to my question. I realize that in the meantime we must resign ourselves to click on context menu, Properties, just for pendrives and memory cards. Maybe I'll see a fix before migrating to other OS versions ...
From: Tim Meddick on 8 Mar 2010 15:23
Ken, despite what [some] other people may say about me, I do make quite an effort to see that what I post is firmly grounded in fact. I spent some time looking at the effect when I answered this post, but have noticed it before and found it very annoying. I have made many customizations to XP by "hacking" my way around the registry but, as yet, have not found a way of making Removable Drives display "Total size" and "Free space" as an "InfoTip" as is the case with Fixed Disks. But I am still searching.... Indeed, Win7 seems to be accomplished in the little "fixes" XP needed! == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake(a)this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message news:f8r7p5dcfu1br0u0h2nfuisi8cuu3dhqon(a)4ax.com... > On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:41:36 -0000, "Tim Meddick" > <timmeddick(a)gawab.com> wrote: > > >> I cannot tell you how to accomplish what you want. >> >> But I can tell you that both the effect that Removable Drives [Class] do not >> display >> Total and Free Space (as InfoTips) and that the option to Make Partition Active >> should be greyed out in Disk Management. >> >> Both of these behaviours is normal if undesirable. >> >> I too think; "why shouldn't free-space be displayed on Removable Drives, just as >> it >> is on fixed disks?" >> >> But the facts are that they aren't. > > > Interesting. I had never noticed this, so I wanted to check it. I > don't have an XP machine handy to check it on, so I only checked in > Windows 7. In Windows 7, free space is displayed on removable drive, > just as with fixed ones. > > So, if you don't mind my asking, are you sure of what you say? Can you > check it one more time? > > -- > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 > Please Reply to the Newsgroup |