How to make apps show detail file view by default?

[Paul in Houston TX]

How to make apps show detail file view by default?

Apps default to list view. I would like them
to show details view by default.

I do NOT mean explorer.exe view. That is set to detail.
I mean apps, like owa, irfan, office, mplayerc, etc.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[MyNews]

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the only one I know!

 

[glee]

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Line 85. Set Detail View for all Folders Open/Save As

Well, Line 85 takes you to a 3rd-party utility that allows you to adjust
the Open/SaveAs dialogs to the view you prefer, but it costs $20.

AFAIK, that is the only way to set the Open/SaveAs dialog view setting.
In Win9x, there was a freeware utility but it does not work in XP.

 

[Tim Meddick]

I don't know what software you're talking about that's costing $20 ?!!

The Kelly's corner web-page that has the item on it entitled :

"Set Detail View for all Folders Open/Save As"

....eventually enables you to download the FileOpenPatcher software, which
enables you to modify the Window's COMDLG32.DLL file and make "detailed
view" the default for the "Open" and "Save As.." dialogs.

And the software is, as far as I'm aware, totally free, licensed under the
open GPL licence...

Here is a direct link to download the FileOpenPatcher software :
ftp://ftp.netcult.ch/mirror/elmue/FileOpenPatcher.zip

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Tim Meddick]

I do apologise, the page that the Kelly's Corner item used to take you to
has changed!

The page that item 85 [Set Detail View for all Folders Open/Save As] used
to take you to is :

http://www.netcult.ch/elmue/ElmueSoft-en.htm

....which still exists, has not changed and I can't see any reason why Kelly
should have changed the destination to software that costs $20 from that
which was freeware!!?

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Alf]

How is AIOE getting MS groups?

 

[Tim Meddick]

Any company is free to mirror any of the "msnews.microsoft.com" newsgroups.

Because they discontinued a selection of the less popular groups amongs
which were :

microsoft.public.msdos.basic
microsoft.public.windowsme.general
microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers

....and many more, the only place you can access them via NNTP is on
alternative NNTP servers such as "nntp.aioe.org" and
"news.eternal-september.org".

However, the microsoft news server still exists and still hosts loads of
free groups.

You can also access many of the same groups via web-interfaces.

Do a google-search for "Usernet Groups"

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Patok]

However, the microsoft news server still exists and still hosts loads of
free groups.

It does? I haven't been following the story, but weren't they supposed to
have already shut the thing down? Did they get second thoughts and change their
mind?

 

[Bert Hyman]

In "Tim Meddick"

Any company is free to mirror any of the "msnews.microsoft.com"
newsgroups.

No.

That server is long gone.

There is no "mirroring;" each server independently carries whatever
newsgroups it cares to and exchanges messages with its peers.

 

[VanguardLH]

MyNews wrote:

<snipped reply by nymshifter>

The owner of a Usenet leech site appears under another nym. Oh joy.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Since you posted your query, I have visited the web-based end of the
microsoft newsgroups and tried to garner some more intel....

Turns out that, of the Windows XP groups, several are still supposed to be
still operational on the "msnews.microsoft.com" server :

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsxp

However, when I tried registering on the "msnews.microsoft.com" server and
downloading a list of their remaining groups via Outlook Express, I could
not connect though I tried many times over half-an-hour.

So, who knows?

The access of most of the groups via "nntp.aioe.org" has been very
consistent and I have no complaints.

Plus, because it's groups are mirrored, any others that carry the same
groups, including microsoft, any new posts / replies also appear on all of
them.

So, what's the difference?

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Tim Meddick]

That's called mirroring.....

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Bert Hyman]

In "Tim Meddick"

That's called mirroring.....

No.

Mirroring a server would involve maintaining an exact copy of its
contents.

Since most servers on USENET accept feeds from several other servers and
also allow their own users to post articles, there's no reason to expect
the contents of any one of those servers to match those of any other.

If nothing else, the article numbers would be different. There's no
guarantee that every server will carry all of the same newsgroups. Also,
each server maintains its own criteria for article retention, so even in
groups carried by multiple servers, the actual set of articles resident
on any pair of them is likely to be different.

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If that was supposed to be a signature separator, why does the text of
my post appear after it?

A proper sig separator is "-- '

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

Good luck.

 

[Tim Meddick]

You're not, by any chance, one of those guys who, rather that just pot
positive stuff that people fine useful, but wait until you find something
in other people's threads that you can start neurotically tearing into with
microscopic detail, are you ?

Because, if you are then,... whatever.......

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Bert Hyman]

You're not, by any chance, one of those guys who, rather that just pot
positive stuff that people fine useful,

What?

 

[Tim Slattery]

How is AIOE getting MS groups?

By peering with other Usenet servers, the same way that all servers
get all groups.

 

[Patok]

Since you posted your query, I have visited the web-based end of the
microsoft newsgroups and tried to garner some more intel....

Turns out that, of the Windows XP groups, several are still supposed to
be still operational on the "msnews.microsoft.com" server :

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsxp

However, when I tried registering on the "msnews.microsoft.com" server
and downloading a list of their remaining groups via Outlook Express, I
could not connect though I tried many times over half-an-hour.

So, who knows?

The access of most of the groups via "nntp.aioe.org" has been very
consistent and I have no complaints.

Plus, because it's groups are mirrored, any others that carry the same
groups, including microsoft, any new posts / replies also appear on all
of them.

As Bert says, it's not exactly "mirroring". But yes, the messages go around
and one can use any news server one finds convenient. The system works, and
that's what's important.

So, what's the difference?

Why does there need be one? You mentioned that the micro server was still up,
and I got curious. Your experiments apparently confirm that it no longer is, or
doesn't function like it did before. Be as it may, I've never used it, and have
no use for it, and so should you. This group will exist regardless.

 

[glee]

Since you posted your query, I have visited the web-based end of the
microsoft newsgroups and tried to garner some more intel....

Turns out that, of the Windows XP groups, several are still supposed
to be still operational on the "msnews.microsoft.com" server :

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsxp

However, when I tried registering on the "msnews.microsoft.com" server
and downloading a list of their remaining groups via Outlook Express,
I could not connect though I tried many times over half-an-hour.

So, who knows?

The access of most of the groups via "nntp.aioe.org" has been very
consistent and I have no complaints.

Plus, because it's groups are mirrored, any others that carry the same
groups, including microsoft, any new posts / replies also appear on
all of them.

So, what's the difference?

Not sure where you saw info that those groups were still available on
the microsoft news server, but if you did, it's probably outdated info
that someone did not remove. The MS news servers are no longer
operational.

As Bert mentioned, it's not called mirroring, it's called Usenet
peering. A lot of people get confused about how Usenet actually works,
so the meaning of the words becomes more important sometimes. This is
helpful:

What is Usenet?
http://newsrazor.net/what-is-usenet

 

[Tim Meddick]

Please refer to my second reply to Bert....

(Friday 28 January 2011 8:20 pm)

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Tim Meddick]

See what I mean?

You quote a section of my reply, namely ; "You're not, by any chance, one
of those guys who, rather that just pot positive stuff that people fine
useful,"

....and it would be obvious to 99% of the human race that it was a typo and
meant to read ;

"You're not, by any chance, one of those guys who, rather that just POST
positive stuff that people fine useful,...."

Mr Microcritical nit-picker.......

For your greater satisfaction ; I have now been taught that usernet-peer
newsgroups are not mirror-sites, and I thankyou for that.

Even though I could possibly have lived the rest of my life not knowing and
even though it was both besides the original point of the topic plus, the
person to which my reply was directed (Paul - the OP), already knew that
fact.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.