Folder views in Vista -- weird stuff

[Guest]

There's been plenty of reason to gainsay how Windows Explorer presents things
to the user in Vista. But how is it that Windows can see its own System32
folder as a picture album?

Isn't that just a wee bit insane?

And why on earth do I have to click so many times to turn on or off file
preview?

Giix

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[Steve Cochran]

Maybe Explorer has the hots for dll's. <G>

steve

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

But how is it that Windows can see its own System32

folder as a picture album?

You might want to give us a wee bit more information about what you are
seeing? By default the System32 folder is not presented as a picture album?
Where are you seeing this? What do you see in the properties of this folder?

And why on earth do I have to click so many times to turn on or off file
preview?

How are you doing this? You should just be able to select Organize, hover
over Layout and select Preview Pane. 2 clicks.

 

[Nathanial Woolls]

You might want to give us a wee bit more information about what you are
seeing? By default the System32 folder is not presented as a picture
album? Where are you seeing this? What do you see in the properties of
this folder?

He's probably talking about this:

"However, in many cases it gets a bit confusing. Windows often decides that
an ordinary document folder is full of pictures and visa versa, This
wouldn't be so bad if I could overrule Vista, but it doesnt alway work when
I apply a folder template to a folder and all sub-folders. Invariably it
changes the template for a top-level folder but not for all of the sub
folders. And I think that if I return to the top-level folder at a later
time, the view may be changed again."