Enter a description of the restore point, such as "Explorer tweak," and click Create.
Click System Protection in the left pane, enter an administrator password if you're prompted to, select the System Protection tab, and click Create. To create a restore point in Windows 7, click the Start button or press the Windows key, right-click Computer, and choose Properties. (Note that you'll also be backing up the specific Registry keys that will be deleted, but it can't hurt to have a backup for your backup.) By setting a restore point before you begin you're ensuring that the change can be undone. Whenever you change your Registry settings you're taking a chance that the alteration will have unintended consequences.
Ramesh describes the process on the WinHelpOnline blog.įollow these three steps to return the ability to preserve multifile selections when changing the sort type in the versions of Explorer in Windows 7 and 8.
Ramesh Srinivasan devised a Registry tweak that disables the Full Row Select option in Windows 7 and 8 Explorer windows, and that has the side-effect of preserving multifile selections when re-sorting from Name to Size, Date modified, or some other category. My unit is struggling to avoid that as long as possible, but can't do so forever. But now my agency is required to adopt Windows 7. The highlighting function is essential to that task. My work unit indexes, manages, and compares policy documents that undergo many revisions. As Dan explains: My job requires the ability to highlight multiple files or folders in a directory, and to retain that highlighting while re-sorting them by different fields (modification dates, thematically-based titles, etc.) Windows provided that feature - until version 7. The feature has been removed from the version of Explorer in Windows 7 and 8. Reader Dan Baechlin depends on Windows Explorer's ability to retain the selection of multiple files after changing the sort order. Sometimes you wish Microsoft would let customers decide when to delete a feature. Public static void main(String args) throws IOException Output List of the text files in the specified directory:įile path: D:\ExampleDirectory\cassandra_logo.jpgįile path: D:\ExampleDirectory\coffeescript_logo.jpgįile path: D:\ExampleDirectory\javafx_logo.jpgįile path: D:\ExampleDirectory\SampleFile1.txtįile path: D:\ExampleDirectory\SampleFile2.txtįile path: D:\ExampleDirectory\SapmleFile3.Disable Explorer's full-row selection to retain the selection of multiple files when you change the sort order. The following Java program lists the names of all the files and directories in the path D:\\ExampleDirectory.
Using this method, you can just print the names of the files and directories.
This method returns a String array which contains the names of all the files and directories in the path represented by the current (File) object. To get the list of all the existing files in a directory this class provides the files class provides list() (returns names) and ListFiles (returns File objects) with different variants.
This class provides various methods to perform various operations on files/directories. The class named File of the java.io package represents a file or directory (path names) in the system.