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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alt+f+n+f ... not very graceful, but it works.

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On Friday, September 21, 2001 at 2:54 pm, amaralliya e. thenardier wrote:
>alt+f+n+f ... not very graceful, but it works. Yeah, basically how I've been doing it. The one I saw was like alt+n or ctrl+f, something like that. If I remember or discover it I'll post it here. THX, Doug

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sure you weren't working on a mac at the time? (apple+n)

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check out Vb script at http://www.woram.com/letter/01-07.HTM It works a treat!


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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alt+f+w+f for the NT / 2000 / XP line, or +enter since the new folder should be the highlighted entry. (Windows NT) Even this shortcut is ridiculous, because it forces the lookup of all possible creation shortcuts in the registry. As of WinXP, Microsoft still hasn't provided a shortcut for this highly used feature. Maybe they're working towards a 24 step "new folder wizard" -SR


On Friday, September 21, 2001 at 2:54 pm, amaralliya e. thenardier wrote:
>alt+f+n+f ... not very graceful, but it works.

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I have always been thinking that Mac is always more stupid than Win, but as to the "Create a New Folder", it is definitely not true. With Mac, press Mac+N, and you will get what you want!!!!


On Friday, February 22, 2002 at 12:15 am, Sean wrote:
>alt+f+w+f for the NT / 2000 / XP line, or +enter since the new folder should be the
>highlighted entry. (Windows NT)
>
>Even this shortcut is ridiculous, because it forces the lookup of all possible creation
>shortcuts in the registry. As of WinXP, Microsoft still hasn't provided a shortcut
>for this highly used feature. Maybe they're working towards a 24 step "new folder
>wizard"
>
>-SR
>
>
>

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Or you can use the "shortcut menue key + w + f " in Windows 2000.


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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The ctrl+f+w+f not always work on the win2000 os, if you got other programs begining with the letter 'f' under the new link. e.g. - Flash movie.


On Sunday, July 21, 2002 at 11:57 am, zhenping wrote:
>I have always been thinking that Mac is always more stupid than Win, but as to the
>"Create a New Folder", it is definitely not true. With Mac, press Mac+N, and you
>will get what you want!!!!
>
>

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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. I've almost finished a program witch make keyboard shortcut for creating new folder under windows explorer so if somebody wants it please mail me: krzysuchr@o2.pl

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I'd like to see that app, Chris. Don't you have a website?

Currently, I have another solution:
Alt+F -> Enter -> Enter

...or if one of your files/subfolders has focus:
Alt+D -> Alt+F -> Enter -> Enter

This is actually much quicker than it seems. Try it.

Oren

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On Sunday, September 23, 2001 at 10:09 pm, Doug Fournet wrote:
>Alt+f then press "enter" key two time
>

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This VB script makes a new folder with today's name dim filesys, newfolder, newfolderName, mm,dd set filesys=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") mm = month(date) if Len(mm) = 1 then mm = "0" & mm end if dd = day(date) if Len(dd) = 1 then dd = "0" & dd end if newfolderName = year(date) & mm & dd If Not filesys.FolderExists(newfolderName) Then Set newfolder = filesys.CreateFolder(newfolderName) End If


On Monday, January 14, 2002 at 3:49 am, Donald wrote:
>check out Vb script at http://www.woram.com/letter/01-07.HTM
>It works a treat!
>

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Here is a method of making it a little faster

Download Hotkeys http://www.broeze.com/hotkeys/hkdownl.html

Install and Load application 

Right click on system tray icon and select "Edit hotkeys" 

Hit the "New" button in the Hotkeys window 

Enter the following information 

Description: New Folder 
ID: [APPLICATION WILL SET THIS] 
Action: Send Keystrokes 
Keys to Send: %F{RIGHT}~ OR %F~~ 
Hoy Key: Ctrl Alt N 

Hit Apply Button and try it out 







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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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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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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Maybe Symbian or Psion paid for it.  My Psion 5mx has got the Ctrl+Shift+N shortcut 
for New Folder.






On Friday, March 26, 2004 at 9:29 pm, bIlZbUb wrote:

>

>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.

>

> 

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The VBScript (shortcut) solution is nice, but it doesn't work on Win 98 SE :-( I found a small piece of sotfware who makes exactly what we need (I just installed it, and it works great!): bxNewFolder adds a "New Folder" button to the toolbar of Windows Explorer. It also provides a hotkey (F12) to create a new folder within the Explorer more quickly. http://www.baxbex.com/files/bxnewfolder.exe


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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Thanks Oren for this great tip, I was looking for such a straight forward shortcut for a long time!


On Thursday, May 22, 2003 at 5:50 am, Oren wrote:
>I'd like to see that app, Chris. Don't you have a website?
>
>

Currently, I have another solution:
>Alt+F -> Enter -> Enter
>
>

...or if one of your files/subfolders has focus:
>Alt+D -> Alt+F -> Enter -> Enter
>
>

This is actually much quicker than it seems. Try it.
>
>

Oren

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how right you are, perfect... DONE. Win XP
>
>

Currently, I have another solution:
>Alt+F -> Enter -> Enter
>
>

...or if one of your files/subfolders has focus:
>Alt+D -> Alt+F -> Enter -> Enter
>
>

This is actually much quicker than it seems. Try it.
>
>

Oren

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To create a new folder [MOUSE R], [W], [F] Works like a charm and you don't have to take your hand off the mouse to accomplish the task.


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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Why no one from microsoft admitt this misfortune?


On Tuesday, August 7, 2007 at 9:52 am, Ken Sterling wrote:
>To create a new folder [MOUSE R], [W], [F]
>
>Works like a charm and you don't have to take your hand off the mouse to accomplish
>the task.
>
>
>
>

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