Help please - details not icons - C: unexpanded

[Rick]

How can I set W explorer to display folder/file information in Details form,
NOT icons! I'm fed up having to repeatedly go to View and selecting
Details.

Also in my W98 days and earlier, I had a little batch file with command line
options set to let me open Windows Explorer with C:\ unexpanded, Very
often, I happen to be going somewhere else.

It's very irritating that so many of these relatively trivial details are
not easily available. Surely MS could spend some time to clean up these
details

R

 

[Wesley Vogel]

XP forgets your folder view settings
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/folderviews.htm

Your view settings or customizations for a folder are lost or incorrect
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813711

Folder Views - Keep Settings
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_f.htm

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Explorer.exe Command-Line Options for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314853

HOW TO: Customize the Windows Explorer Views in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307856

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Enable View>Details, then go to Tools>Folder Options>View and click on
'Apply to All Folders'.

Please see if the following article helps:

"Windows Explorer Command-Line Options"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;152457

 

[Kelly]

Hi Rick,

By default, Windows is designed to remember 400 different folder settings
(200 local folders and 200 network folders, for a total of 400 folders).
Windows will start to re-use these stored settings on a 'Most Recently Used'
basis, once the folder limit has been exceeded. You can change this to 8000
by adding this edit to the registry.

Run this edit, then reset your preferred folder options:

Increase Folder View Options Limit: (Line 2)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

To use the Regedit: Save the REG File to your hard disk. Double click it
and answer yes to the import prompt. REG files can be viewed in Notepad by
right clicking on the file and selecting Edit.

Windows Explorer/View/[Select Accordingly]. Then Tools/Folder
Options/View/Apply to All Folders.

Note: XP-SP2 ups it to 5000.

Command Line Switches for Windows Explorer
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_c.htm#comline

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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com