Please, no Thumbnail view in file dialogs

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Paul D. DeRocco

I've successfully disabled the ugly Thumbnails view in Explorer windows, and
the creation of thumbs.db files. However, whenever I go to certain folders
like My Pictures or My Videos in a file dialog box, it still insists on
switching to Thumbnails view. This means that I can see a grand total of
eight files, none of which have meaningful thumbnails anyway. I've searched
the KB, looked for desktop.ini files that might be playing a role, and
carefully perused the Explorer branch in the registry for values that might
pertain to this, all to no avail.

Indeed, if I could purge the entire OS of any code that has anything to do
with Thumbnails, Tiles and Icons view, and be left with only List and
Details, and a button to toggle between the two, I'd be extremely happy. But
I know that's asking too much.

So how do I get the file dialog boxes to obey the setting that disables the
automatic Thumbnails view for image and video folders?
 
You;ve tried setting it the way you want it (or for that matter, going to a
folder you have the way you want it), and then (in explorer) go to TOOLS >
FOLDER OPTIONS > VIEW and clicking the APPLY TO ALL FOLDERS button
 
gerryf said:
You;ve tried setting it the way you want it (or for that matter, going to
a
folder you have the way you want it), and then (in explorer) go to TOOLS >
FOLDER OPTIONS > VIEW and clicking the APPLY TO ALL FOLDERS button
Click to expand...

Of course. And that worked fine for folders opened in Explorer. But it seems
to have no effect on File->Open and File->Save As dialog boxes. And since
those are typically quite small, it means I can only see half a dozen files
until I switch view modes, which is a total PITA. I can't believe that
everyone isn't bitching about this, and that there isn't some registry hack
to solve the problem.
 
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