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The status bar's functionality in Windows 7 (and maybe Vista, but I don't know for sure) is no longer showing me what it used to in previous Windows. I have tried all possible options such as Classic Shell and so on. Basically, the one thing I miss most is seeing at a glance the total size of my selected files.

I know I can press Alt+Enter or whatever, but that's not the point. The point is that the so-called 'details' pane stops providing details if more than 15 files are selected. Cannot understand the reason behind such a stupid arbitrary limit, that doesn't seem to be user-configurable at all.

Anyway, what I'm looking for is a way to change that limit, either via the registry or otherwise. Is this at all possible?

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Paul
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There is no way to change the arbitrarily low (and extremely silly) limit of 15 files imposed by Microsoft on the Details Pane in Windows 7. MultipleInvokePromptMinimum only changes the limits for the context menu.

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Put this in a text editor, save it as a .reg file, then apply it. this changes it from 15 to 256, but you can use whatever number you want.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; Sets maximum files allowed to be opened concurrently to 256. (Default is 15.)
; Hexadecimal.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"MultipleInvokePromptMinimum"=dword:00000100
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