Windows 8 will offer simplified file management
Assuming that the file management in Windows may slightly to obfuscate the users the other day Alex Simons (Alex Simons), Director of the Office of development and maintenance of programs in Microsoft Windows, the team discussed a number of improvements that are designed to simplify the process of working with files in Windows Explorer 8. We have mentioned about these improvements in the our material and here will tell you about them in detail.
Mr. Symons notes that copying, moving, renaming and deleting files is the most frequently used functions of Windows Explorer, occupying about 50% of all file operations. However, Microsoft research showed that some of the features to copy files in Windows 7 are a bit messy and confusing for exact details. This is especially true if a user copies or moves files or directories with the same name or same makes multiple such tasks.
To make file management interface friendlier for the user, Microsoft went on three basic steps:
- the creation of a single dialog monitoring and management of all copied files;
- get rid of extra and give users only the necessary information;
- give people an additional means of copy operations management.
As a result, users of Windows 8 will receive four new features in the upcoming operating system, designed to simplify the process of copying and moving files.
Firstly, if in the past, Windows encountered every time when you copy or move files in a separate dialog, sometimes severely hampered and annoyed the Windows 8 all processes will be displayed only in a single dialog where the user will be easier to view and manipulate individual processes.
- Windows 8 will display a dialog when copying files
Secondly, users finally will be able to suspend and restore processes copy/move, not only to cancel them, and will also be able to see the destination folder and the original folder.
- Windows 8 will be copy processes pause
Third, Microsoft forecasts earlier file copy times allegations were the subject of various jokes about what Mr Simons even mentioned in his blog. Sometimes time can vary quite significantly from 5 minutes to an hour, then up to 15 minutes, and then again to an hour. Instead of trying to guess how long the files will be copied as Windows 8 will offer a new live schedule, which will tell you in detail about the trends of speed of copying files and what volume copy remains. Although this sounds more complicated simple evaluations, this approach much more precisely.
- Detailed display of the file copy process
- When you break two of the three processes of copying, active speed spikes
Finally, people sometimes go astray from the confusing filename if conflicts that arise when the source and destination folders are files with similar names during this move the files or copying them. Windows 8, Microsoft has created a Special dialog box that allows users to accurately determine what file it is better to rename what was replaced by a new, and what not to touch.
- Windows 8 will offer more convenient dialog for duplicate file names
- Dialog when conflict of filenames in Windows 7
Still it is worth mentioning that Microsoft default goes away from the annoying Windows like “are you sure you want to delete this file?” or “you want to merge these two folders?”
As a result, the process of file management in Windows promises, in fact, be much more simple and straightforward. Familiarize yourself with all the features in action available at the above video.