These 2 features were removed from the latest windows and really help in speeding up the everyday usage:
Showing the amount of free space
Showing the total size of files in folders.
How can this two features be added back to the status bar?
Disk Space Free in Windows Explorer status bar.
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I'm wondering in Windows 7 how to show how much disk space is free in Windows Explorer. In XP you could see how much space was free down the bottom in the status bar. It would say how many objects there are and the disk space that was free. How can I turn this on in Windows 7?
Going back to the root of that particular drive is annoying, when I should be able to see how much free space I have from any folder.
Thanks.
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Anonymous
2012-04-20T22:02:12+00:00 These features never slowed down any machine I ever used running XP - Windows Explorer was always as fast as I was. Explorer and Notepad always responded instantly.
Please explain how removing basic information that was previously displayed smoothly in realtime sped anything up?
In fact it now takes WAY longer to manage my files because I have to keep going to the root to see free space information and clicking properties to see file size for multiple files or whole directories. It's outrageous to think getting rid of this basic feature, the removal of which creates way more work, is in any way helpful. Also there should be an option to enable/disable. Frankly if it slowed my machine down but prevented me from having to take all these extra steps and creating all this extra work, I'd gladly make that tradeoff but I have trouble believing that in 2012 adding up file size is so complex as to slow a machine down. DOS could do it faster than anyone could read it.
Also, how can this be marked as an Answer when it just re-poses the same question?
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Anonymous
2015-02-26T18:58:54+00:00 I have not tested it but, there is a third party program which claims to provide the functions you want.
Yes, this is an old thread.
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Anonymous
2009-12-11T07:27:08+00:00 I am back to XP because of the dreadful Explorer.
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