"Dave T."
I found the problem. I had disabled "tool tips" in folder options because
the text balloons were in the way when doing drag & drop operations. You
led me to the answer, thank you! I think I will leave it disabled though,
since I don't need it.

glad being useful somehow.

"Pictures format" means that if I open the "documents" folder in the "list
details" view format the column headers read "Date taken", etc. I think
that this is because at one time I had stored some pictures I received in
emails to that folder. I guess Vista will change the view format
automatically if you do that.

the way vista's explorer looks is a real PITA. nor do i expect much from
sp1, as mimicking apple -- in a world not consistant with apple and used to
details since c:\dir and nc's times -- has its risks.

anyway, after some trouble with vista showing any folder as it thought
better, i could arrange atleast it to reset any folder as an 'unknown
folder' and usually show it in the details view, without harassing about
date taken, pixel size, duration and that stuff.

btw, i've got folders with thousands of pictures, and it's uselessly time
consuming. i do not want infos on them, i just need to program them, and
sometimes to enjoy them :P

an useful link about the explorer behavior was

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/1...t-clean-state/

hth, but read it carefully before trying...

ciao, ZC

note: even after applying the changes suggested by that pages, i stil cant
uninstall many programs. panel programs just doesnt show the 'uninstall'
options for many programs, like vs2005 and most things that came with the
pc.
hope sp1 will fix this...