Comments on: How to Add Comments to Files (Win XP)

By: Jeremy Wagstaff

Jeremy Wagstaff — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:13:44 +0000

Glad to hear…

By: Mattingly

Mattingly — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:53:01 +0000

I told my garmndother how you helped. She said, bake them a cake!

By: rlmuller

rlmuller — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:25:20 +0000

I noticed that for non-office applications, if we save the file after the command is inserted, it will be erased. Is there any way of preventing this ? Thanks !

By: Walter

Walter — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:58:55 +0000

The comments are limited to a certain number of characters and sometimes my comments are cut of blunt, because of this.
Any idea how I can have this buffer enlarged?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:10:10 +0000

Thanks for the help! Others might be interested in this pcv file page which was useful to me.

http://dotwhat.net/pcv/9737/

By: Bob Royston

Bob Royston — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:45:35 +0000

Hi,
I’ve read all these posts and I too am disappointed by the inability to add personal comments (not tags) to file properties in Win7. I used to do it to eBooks to indicate I had read them and to rate them and to further identify nonsensical names of .exe and other files. However, this functionality is gone in Win7. Does anyone know of a fix or a download that will add this feature? Thank you very much!

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:36:20 +0000

OK I had not seen the comments field at the bottom of the screen with a few file types, thanks Jeremy.
But this is not really what I am trying to do.
In XP using the “Details” file view, a right click in the columns heading area would bring up a list of possible columns, then selecting the comments field there would place that column on the screen. This is also possible with Win7, so far so good.
Then in XP one could add a comment to a file, (for any type of file in any folder), by right-clicking the file and selecting the properties option, then the summary tab one could then type a comment and it was displayed in the comments field on the screen. This worked for all file types in any folder and was VERY useful when the filenames were at best undescriptive. In Win7 it appears this is NOT possible, very disappointing!!!!

By: Jeremy Wagstaff

Jeremy Wagstaff — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:56:03 +0000

Jim, that’s right. There’s a tagging option in Windows Explorer for some files–Word files, music files, and one or two others. Click on a file in explorer and you should see some fields at the bottom of the window.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:20:31 +0000

Jeremy if I understand you correctly you have added comments to some files in Windows 7?
If can you tell me how you did it please, because I am stuck with no succes at all file types in Win7 on any file/folders.
Sorry about the dup post.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:16:59 +0000

By: Jeremy Wagstaff

Jeremy Wagstaff — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:27:07 +0000

Jim, I’ve not tried this with Win7; their tagging system in Explorer seems, on the surface, to improve on the previous workarounds, but this only works for some types of file, so I’m not sure it’s all that much of an improvement.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:26:42 +0000

I used this in XP Pro and it worked well. Now I am using Win7 Pro 64bit and can setup the comments column as befor but cannot find how to add the comment to the file. There is no summary tab in the file properties.
Can you help? Is there a way to add a comment in Win7?

By: sqgl

sqgl — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:10:45 +0000

Les was saying that there the comments tab is only part of properties for *some* files, eg mp3, txt. My workaround is to rename add a .txt suffix to the problem file, add the comment, then restore the original name. The comment will then still appear in the folder listing even though it is unaccesible via properties.

I wonder if the HobCommentXP app enables it for all filetypes. If so your tip is doubly appreciated. Off I go to try it.

By: Guthro

Guthro — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:32:09 +0000

On my XP installations, all fields in a file’s Properties/Summary window are greyed out, read-only. What Windows setting controls that?

By: Jeremy Wagstaff

Jeremy Wagstaff — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:34:18 +0000

Windows Seven has a much better tagging system, but it’s still half-baked

By: Pierre Dagenais

Pierre Dagenais — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:16:27 +0000

In reply to Les, this work well on NTFS, works some times with FAT32 and doesn’t work with FAT. Thank you for the tip.

By: Jeremy Wagstaff

Jeremy Wagstaff — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:02:45 +0000

Ross, afraid I don’t.

By: Ross Deforrest

Ross Deforrest — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:48:23 +0000

Thanks for the info on adding comments. Do you know of any music players (mp3) that will display what the added to the comments as the music is playing? And what is the limit of an added comment’s length? Thanks in advance
Ross

By: Catherine Macdonald

Catherine Macdonald — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:55:09 +0000

thanks! will let you know if have any luck in Windows or indeed Linux territories.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:05:53 +0000

Catherine, thanks for this.

There is Yep – http://www.yepthat.com – for Macs, which I haven’t tried. I don’t know of anything for Windows..