Whenever I go to open files (alright, almost always) I like to view the
details and then sort by date modified. I hate that every time I go to
File|Open in an application I have to reselect the view and sort. Is
there any way to make "Details" view permanent? The sort is less
important (it is one click).

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Whenever I go to open files (alright, almost always) I like to view
> the details and then sort by date modified. I hate that every time I
> go to File|Open in an application I have to reselect the view and
> sort. Is there any way to make "Details" view permanent? The sort is
> less important (it is one click).

This cannot be done natively in XP.
You can accomplish what you want with a third party program. See the
following link.

File-Ex
http://www.file-ex.com/welcome.html


--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

The Sort part can be done. Close a folder window with the sort you want by Ctrl + the X on titlebar.

It MUST be done in a file folder (not My Computer or other special folders). This sets the system default sort. Nearly everything else but dialogs have their own sort setting that overrides the system default.

--
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.uscricket.com
"Ronnie Vernon MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>> Whenever I go to open files (alright, almost always) I like to view
>> the details and then sort by date modified. I hate that every time I
>> go to File|Open in an application I have to reselect the view and
>> sort. Is there any way to make "Details" view permanent? The sort is
>> less important (it is one click).
>
> This cannot be done natively in XP.
> You can accomplish what you want with a third party program. See the
> following link.
>
> File-Ex
> http://www.file-ex.com/welcome.html
>
>
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>

David Candy wrote:
> The Sort part can be done. Close a folder window with the sort you
> want by Ctrl + the X on titlebar.
>
> It MUST be done in a file folder (not My Computer or other special
> folders). This sets the system default sort. Nearly everything else
> but dialogs have their own sort setting that overrides the system
> default.
>

Thanks, David

That does work here, is this something new? I thought everything had been
tried?

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

It been in Explorer since Win 95.

Ctrl + X on the titlebar. It must be a file folder. Dialogs read this once per application (so you must stop and restart programs to see if it took).

Open Notepad, go File Open, set to all files (*.*) - look at the sort, close Notepad.

Open an Folder window (ie not a file open/save dialog - a normal folder window) via My Computer to C:\, sort how you want, Ctrl + X on title bar.

Open Notepad, go File Open - look at the sort, it changed.

Plus if you hold down control and click close while in a file folder it also updates
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
Shellstate=

This is mainly setting irrelevent things except it holds the global sort, which all the others override. But File Open dialog boxes only use this setting, so it basically only affects sorting in File Open dialogs. But it seems that sometimes an earlier windows versions setting get written here and other settings then aren't saved. It also stores show extensions, hide hidden files etc.

It seems this is a different structure (it got XP specific settings in it) to older OSs. Some non saving of settings is due to this key and I suspect a Win 95 structure gets written over the XP one.

If your sort doesn't change close Explorer (Start - Shutdown - Ctrl + Alt + Shift + click Close/Cancel), delete ShellState, and restart Explorer as the shell and try again. Shutting the shell down the way I describe saves settings.

--
----------------------------------------------------------
http://www.uscricket.com
"Ronnie Vernon MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> David Candy wrote:
>> The Sort part can be done. Close a folder window with the sort you
>> want by Ctrl + the X on titlebar.
>>
>> It MUST be done in a file folder (not My Computer or other special
>> folders). This sets the system default sort. Nearly everything else
>> but dialogs have their own sort setting that overrides the system
>> default.
>>
>
> Thanks, David
>
> That does work here, is this something new? I thought everything had been
> tried?
>
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>

David Candy wrote:
> It been in Explorer since Win 95.
>
> Ctrl + X on the titlebar. It must be a file folder. Dialogs read this
> once per application (so you must stop and restart programs to see if
> it took).
>
> Open Notepad, go File Open, set to all files (*.*) - look at the
> sort, close Notepad.
>
> Open an Folder window (ie not a file open/save dialog - a normal
> folder window) via My Computer to C:\, sort how you want, Ctrl + X on
> title bar.
>
> Open Notepad, go File Open - look at the sort, it changed.
>
> Plus if you hold down control and click close while in a file folder
> it also updates
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
> Shellstate=
>
> This is mainly setting irrelevent things except it holds the global
> sort, which all the others override. But File Open dialog boxes only
> use this setting, so it basically only affects sorting in File Open
> dialogs. But it seems that sometimes an earlier windows versions
> setting get written here and other settings then aren't saved. It
> also stores show extensions, hide hidden files etc.
>
> It seems this is a different structure (it got XP specific settings
> in it) to older OSs. Some non saving of settings is due to this key
> and I suspect a Win 95 structure gets written over the XP one.
>
> If your sort doesn't change close Explorer (Start - Shutdown - Ctrl +
> Alt + Shift + click Close/Cancel), delete ShellState, and restart
> Explorer as the shell and try again. Shutting the shell down the way
> I describe saves settings.
>
>> David Candy wrote:
>>> The Sort part can be done. Close a folder window with the sort you
>>> want by Ctrl + the X on titlebar.
>>>
>>> It MUST be done in a file folder (not My Computer or other special
>>> folders). This sets the system default sort. Nearly everything else
>>> but dialogs have their own sort setting that overrides the system
>>> default.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, David
>>
>> That does work here, is this something new? I thought everything had
>> been
>> tried?
>>

Thanks again for the info, much appreciated.
--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User