Hope a new feature in the next version of Windows.

[RealCat]

In the Windows Vista explorer, there are many view modes. In "Details"
mode, it looks like the columns are automatically determined by the
system in accordance with the file types in the folder. But a software
is imperfect. Sometimes Explorer shows very irrelevant colums. For
example, it could show unncessary Date taken, Tags, Rating columns for
a folder that contains downloaded movie clips while Date modified,
Type, Size , which are what I want to see, are hidden.

Of course I can manually change the columns displayed, but doing that
everytime for many folders is time-consuming and tedious. I think it
would be very nice if users can define a 'column presets' for Details
mode and apply them as needed with just one click, in the next version
of Windows.

 

[Paul Smith]

In the Windows Vista explorer, there are many view modes. In "Details"
mode, it looks like the columns are automatically determined by the
system in accordance with the file types in the folder. But a software
is imperfect. Sometimes Explorer shows very irrelevant colums. For
example, it could show unncessary Date taken, Tags, Rating columns for
a folder that contains downloaded movie clips while Date modified,
Type, Size , which are what I want to see, are hidden.

Of course I can manually change the columns displayed, but doing that
everytime for many folders is time-consuming and tedious. I think it
would be very nice if users can define a 'column presets' for Details
mode and apply them as needed with just one click, in the next version
of Windows.

I'm hoping for an actual fix rather than having to wait for a new release.
Windows has for a long time had issues with views resetting themselves, but
in Windows Vista it seems to happen much more frequently.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
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[John D. Sheridan]

How comfortable are you with editing the Registry?

John

 

[RealCat]

Thank you for reply. I think my Windows already remembers folder
settings when I 're'-open the folder. But this is not what I wanted to
discuss. What I want is to make some column presets and apply them to
folders as needed.
Now I'm considering writing my own shell extension for this, unless
there already are similar programs out there.