Make Files Retain View?

[CWLee]

I have just purchased a small laptop which came with Windows
XP Home edition installed. It seems to work fine, but there
are a few small items I need some help with.

I prefer for all my files to display in what is called the
"details" view or mode. I can change each folder, but the
next time I open it the files have reverted to the "tiles"
view or mode.

I have gone Start > Settings > Control Panel > Folder
Options > View and then checked "Remember each folder's view
settings" but that doesn't seem to work.

Ideas?

Thanks.


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[Milt]

CWLee,

Go to Kelly's XP Corner at http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm and
try the "Fix" on Line 2, left hand column, "Increase Folder View Size Limit
To 8000". The instructions for using it are at the top of the page.

Milt

 

[Bookman]

CWLee:

Set up a folder the way you like. In that folder, go to tools, folder
options, view tab. Click Apply to all folders.

Bookman
MCDST

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I have just purchased a small laptop which came with Windows
XP Home edition installed. It seems to work fine, but there
are a few small items I need some help with.

I prefer for all my files to display in what is called the "details" view
or mode. I can change each folder, but the next time I open it the files
have reverted to the "tiles" view or mode.

I have gone Start > Settings > Control Panel > Folder Options > View and
then checked "Remember each folder's view settings" but that doesn't seem
to work.

Ideas?

Thanks.

In addition, these changes often only hold if there is *only one* Explorer
window open. Close them all, open one, make the changes, close it. On
re-opening Explorer, the views should hold.

HTH
-pk