My thought is maybe Mac has some kind of patent or rights to that shortcut. One of 
the main gripes of the PC user til XP came out was lack of personalization etc that 
the mac had.. XP nearly addressed all the issues save the New Folder command. the 
only thing i can think of is its copyrighted or something???? who knows. i've never 
seen it publicly addressed by microsoft. After going thru graphic design tech school 
using macs as well as pcs it was a common topic, they can't expect us to believe 
its never at least been DISCUSSED at the MS drawing board? weird.






On Friday, March 19, 2004 at 1:13 am, Vaclav Cechura wrote:

>I just want to make several comments to this topic:
>
>1) The Alt+f+w+f shortcut may fail in language versions 
>other than English. It's clear that one has to change the 
>f+w+f sequence to match the actual menu (Alt+s+n+s 
>in Czech for example), but here you can easily run into 
>troubles. When you select a folder prior to aplying the 
>shortcut  (imagine that you want to copy the folder to 
>a newly created folder, you select the source folder  
>and press ctrl+c) and than try Alt+s+n+s, the n 
>shortcut takes you to Sharing (SdileNi in czech) and not 
>to New (Novy in Czech; Sharing is first in the menu). 
>Which means that in many situations the shortcut does 
>not work. Thanks, the localization team... 
>
>
>2) Psion 5mx has it (Ctrl+Shift+N for new folder, 
>Ctrl+N for new file), Mac has it (Apple+N), why 
>Windows does not is a mystery. This is essential.
>
>3) A personal one:
>I can hardly understand that after about 20 years of 
>Windows development there still is no shortcut key for 
>such a frequent action like creating a new folder. Please 
>tell me, Mr. Gates... Maybe a vision...
>
>
>On Friday, September 21, 2001 at 1:06 pm, Doug Fournet wrote:

>>Someone once showed me a quick keystroke to make a new folder under the current 
>(highlighted) 

>>folder. 

>> 

>>I know I can use Alt F and rt cursor key but this one was much quicker. 
 

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