Folder View not sticking

[Guest]

I have been frustrated by this for months and have searched high and low for
a solution. For the life of me, I cannot set the View Setting of the current
selected folder to apply to any other folders. If I do the default
Tools/Options/View, Like Current - it actually changes all other folders to
icon view, when the folder I'm in is Details view. Anyone have ideas on what
I could try?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Set the View you want then go to Tools>Folder Options>View and click on
'Apply to All Folders'.

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Will Denny
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[Guest]

Thanks Will, exactly what I've tried below and it doesn't work. It actually
makes it worse by changing all the folders that I have manually changed to
Details view back to Icons view...very frustrating.

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

I've written a script that will apply all the view customizations you can set to all of a folder's
subfolders. Right-click the link below & save to your computer. The zip file contains a readme
file & the script itself.

http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/FVM3.zip


You can select a folder & configure its view settings, then those are set to be inherited by all
subfolders (you have the option of saving or wiping out current saved views) . You can set a
default for My Pics, another for My Music, and then a more generic default for My Computer. The
inheritance settings are separate from the folder view itself -- for example, you can set a
non-grouped view to be the default inheritance for My Computer, then return My Computer to its
standard 'group by type' layout after running the script without affecting the default view you have
set.