Windows 10: File infotips on removable drives

Discus and support File infotips on removable drives in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; I noticed that extended information in file infotips are not displayed on network drives in explorer. I guess that makes sense from a performance... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by hkrome, Dec 10, 2019.

  1. hkrome Win User

    File infotips on removable drives


    I noticed that extended information in file infotips are not displayed on network drives in explorer. I guess that makes sense from a performance standpoint. Out of curiosity, why is extended tip information not displayed for files stored on removable media?

    Infotip on a local disk:

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    Infotip on a removable disk:

    File infotips on removable drives 2f9d2df6-de7f-43c6-a091-6537f4e7c466?upload=true.png

    Thanks!

    :)
     
    hkrome, Dec 10, 2019
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  2. YannB_74 Win User

    InfoTip for a file in a network drive

    Can anybody explain me why after customization of the InfoTip of a file in the Registry (i.e. jpg image) I have a correct result as far as the file is local in my PC (including OneDrive) but is not applied for a file in my network drive. It is just as if
    it shows the default configuration of the InfoTip.

    Sorry but it is not possible to make a screen capture.

    For example in my PC I configured the InfoTip to show:

    -Type of file

    -Date taken for the Photo

    -Dimensions of the Photo

    -Size of the file

    But in my network drive I only have what follows, despite my efforts to modify it:

    -Type of File

    -Size of file

    -Date when modified

    Thanks,

    YB
     
    YannB_74, Dec 10, 2019
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  3. YannB_74 Win User
    InfoTip for a file in a network drive

    Hi Guy,

    Nice to meet you again. Apparently no problems to continue in English.

    No I did not try to reboot yet because I wanted to be sure if I was changing the right InfoTip. Hence my question on the forum to locate the place where the data, for the Infotip in case of a file from the network drive, is located.

    In fact I made the changes in the InfoTip for the jpg files months ago and you can be sure that a lot of reboots happened since. However it is only few days ago that I discovered the discrepancy between the two drives. It is clear that the modifications
    that I made are not valid for the network file.

    I worked on it for hours and gave up.

    At the end I assumed that the following key was the one reflecting the InfoTip data that I had on the screen
    File infotips on removable drives d1a9f216-acac-43ac-883e-5b4d3491e8b9?upload=true.jpg


    Then I modified the key (Infotip) and the likes like :Ordinateur\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\* with no success. And in fact the content of the InfoTip varies a little with the files on the network.

    I thought of rebooting but I didn't and said to myself, go to the experts now after all that time spent on searching the internet and making trials in the registry.

    Hope you can help or report this issue since it is bugging me and is not logical in Windows.

    YB
     
    YannB_74, Dec 10, 2019
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  4. File infotips on removable drives

    InfoTip for a file in a network drive

    Hi YANNB_74

    I am an independent advisor here to help

    To my knowledge it is only possible to make this modification for files that are stored on the local drive. It would not apply to networked folders.

    I do wonder though if you modified the InfoTip on the host PC, if it would 'transmit' the additional information for InfoTip to the PC from which you are accessing the networked folders
     
    TechGuy_82, Dec 10, 2019
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