Please, no Thumbnail view in file dialogs

[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?

 

[gerryf]

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

 

[Paul D. DeRocco]

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

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.

 

[David Candy]

You obviously don't want an answer else you wouldn't have snipped the question.