2 problems adjusting to Win2K

[grrl]

I'm trying out Win2K to see if it is worth upgrading from 98. One problem I have with it is the drag and drop function doesn't work the same way. In 98 if I hold down shift+ctrl while dragging items it would give me a shortcut menu. In 2000 dragging creates no menu and will only move items within the same drive or create a shortcut to the item on another drive. Is this typical of NT systems? Is there a way to change the settings?

Second, how do you change the icons for different file types in Win2K? The File Association dialog lacks the icon button like 98 has.

Also, a little while ago someone asked for sites offering tweaks for XP. Are there similar sites for Win2K and/or will most changes for XP also work in 2000?

 

[bsobel]

> In 2000 dragging creates no menu and will only move items within

Try dragging with the right mouse button.
Bill

 

[grrl]

bump

 

[Tannah]

what exaclty are you looking to tweak in windows 2000?
There's TweakUI out for win2000 and a program called Xsetup that allow you to customise the interface to some degree..

 

[grrl]

Thanks Tannah. I'll tryout Xsetup (although right now the site keeps crashing my Netscape). I'd like to do all of the tweaks I could in 98 like easily change file icons, get rid of the whole Documents entry in the start menu, move control panel to the top of the start menu, etc.

 

[Tannah]

As far as I know all thoughs things are possable with Xsetup and Tweekui for winows 2000

 

[grrl]

I was able to do all of those things with X-Setup. I also discovered that the button to change the file icons disappears if you change the associated applications from the MS default. For example, when I changed my text editor to NoteTab the 'advanced' button in Folder Options changed to a reset button, effectively hiding the icon box. To work around it I had to change the default in the dialog boxes without using the change button. That allowed the advanced button to remain.

What's up with that?