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| Properties |
Properties window (sometimes called the
Properties sheet) is a dialog box that serves a very specific
purpose: to display and allow changes to the settings associated with
a file, folder, or other object in Windows. Most objects have
Properties sheets, almost always accessible by
right-clicking and selecting
Properties,
as shown in Figure 3-19. (You can also display
Properties by holding Alt and double-clicking, or if the item is
already highlighted, by pressing Alt-Enter.) Many items in the
Control Panel can be quickly accessed by right-clicking on various
interface elements and selecting Properties; for example:
- My Network Places icon
Properties points to Network Connections - Empty portion of the Desktop Properties points to
Display Properties - My Computer icon
Properties points to System Properties - Taskbar or Start button
Properties points to Taskbar and Start Menu Properties - Clock (in the notification area) Properties points to Time
and Date Properties
Figure 3-21. Right-click an item and select Properties to display the item's Properties dialog, often a good place to find extra features and settings
have more. Note that the particular information and settings
available depend entirely on the object that was clicked.
Notes
- Folders, printers, and disk drives have a second property tab called
Sharing. See Chapter 7 for details. Shortcuts
to MS-DOS and command-line-based programs have additional settings
for legacy support. - To see the amount of disk space used by a group of files, select them
and then view the Properties entry for the selected list. On the
first tab, you'll see the size of the whole group.
Change any of the attributes, and the change will be applied to all
of the files in the selected group. (Unfortunately, if any of the
files in the selected group has a different attribute from other
files in the group, the checkbox for that attribute will be grayed
out, so this does not work in all cases. This poor user interface
design was discussed in "Combo Boxes", earlier in this chapter.) - Certain types of
files, such as Microsoft Word files,
will have additional property pages that are generated by the
application that created them. Word files, for example, have pages
that let you summarize and view the statistics for documents. - Among the settings in a Properties sheet for files are the Attributes
(Read-only, Hidden, and Archive). See "Attrib" in Chapter 4 for details. - In previous versions of Windows, the Properties sheet also contained
the
"
MS-DOS
name," the eight-character
"
short
filename," plus a three-character
extension. Since Windows XP has better
support for long filenames, it's assumed that this
information is no longer necessary. If you need a short filename for
a file or folder, type dir /x at a command prompt
(see Chapter 6 for details).
