Explorer keeps reverting to 'Tiles' view

[Plegron]

I'm sure I can't be the first person to find Windows Explorer's tendency to
revert to the 'Tiles' view incredibly irritating.

It seems that no matter how many times I explicitly define that I want the
window to display information as a 'Details' view, Explorer will regularly
and for no apparent reason, revert to the default, but far less useful,
'Tiles' view.

I have no idea why Microsoft chose to ape this retarded Mac-style view as a
default, but I guess it was the down to the same blithering idiot who
thought it was a good idea to introduce the patronising and widely despised
'My Computer' etc. , but I do know that it's always the first thing I change
on a new XP installation and I'm sick and tired of having to keep setting it
time and time again.

This absurd behaviour seems to affect every flavour of XP from Home to
Professional and MCE, too and on pretty much every PC I've ever built as
well as many I haven't, so it can't be hardware-related.

I really can't see how this can be anything but a bug which begs the
question 'why hasn't it been fixed?' Two major service packs and more
patches than an weak-willed ex-smoker's arm later and it's still doing it!
Can there really be a rational explanation?

Can anybody shed some light on this subject and explain why this happens?
More importantly, can anybody offer any advice as to how I can stop it?

 

[loz]

Set the folder how you want it.Go tools, folder options,view then click the
button apply to all folders and hopefully you should have no more problems.
LOZ

 

[Elmo]

I'm sure I can't be the first person to find Windows Explorer's tendency to
revert to the 'Tiles' view incredibly irritating.

It seems that no matter how many times I explicitly define that I want the
window to display information as a 'Details' view, Explorer will regularly
and for no apparent reason, revert to the default, but far less useful,
'Tiles' view.

I have no idea why Microsoft chose to ape this retarded Mac-style view as a
default, but I guess it was the down to the same blithering idiot who
thought it was a good idea to introduce the patronizing and widely despised
'My Computer' etc., but I do know that it's always the first thing I change
on a new XP installation and I'm sick and tired of having to keep setting it
time and time again.

This absurd behaviour seems to affect every flavour of XP from Home to
Professional and MCE, too and on pretty much every PC I've ever built as
well as many I haven't, so it can't be hardware-related.

I really can't see how this can be anything but a bug which begs the
question 'why hasn't it been fixed?'. Two major service packs and more
patches than an weak-willed ex-smoker's arm later and it's still doing it!
Can there really be a rational explanation?

Can anybody shed some light on this subject and explain why this happens?
More importantly, can anybody offer any advice as to how I can stop it?

Maybe this registry fix by Kelly:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Line 30. Windows XP Doesn't Save User Settings

 

[Plegron]

Thanks Loz,

I guess I should have made it clear, but when I said "..I explicitly define
that I want the window to display information as a 'Details' view", I meant
that I'd selected Details view then clicked the 'Apply to all folders' in
Tools, Folder Options, View. Unless I do this, the next window displays as
a 'Tiles' view, even if I'm opening a folder by double-clicking it in a
'Details' window. After clicking 'Apply to all folders' Explorer does keep
this setting for a period of time (anything from next start-up to many
months), but eventually reverts to the default 'Tiles' view. Very
frustrating.

I'll check out Elmo's suggestion.

 

[Plegron]

Thanks Joe, but I don't want to mess around with the registry without at
least some explanation of what's being changed and a better idea of whether
it will impact the problem without causing other problems.

Because of it's intermittent nature, I'd only know it hadn't worked if the
problem persisted. I could go for months without having the problem again
and think it had solved it, then it happens again and I'd realise it hadn't
worked. See the problem?

Thanks for the input, but I really need some help from someone who's
experienced the problem and has some knowledge of why it happens.

 

[Elmo]

Thanks Joe, but I don't want to mess around with the registry without at
least some explanation of what's being changed and a better idea of whether
it will impact the problem without causing other problems.

Because of its intermittent nature, I'd only know it hadn't worked if the
problem persisted. I could go for months without having the problem again
and think it had solved it, then it happens again and I'd realize it hadn't
worked. See the problem?

Thanks for the input, but I really need some help from someone who's
experienced the problem and has some knowledge of why it happens.

Edit the registry file and see what it does. Go to that area of the
registry, export a copy so you can change back later if you want.