Saving folder view

[Waldy]

Hi there,
I'm on XP Pro SP3 and for some reason, it has decided that it
now wants to display all folders with the Icon view. I have never selected
this view as I prefer to use the Details one. I now cannot get the folders
to open with Details. I have clicked the Apply to all Folders button, the
Reset Folders button, clicked OK, changed some of the advanced checkboxes to
enable the Apply button and tried closing Explorer, and rebooting but the
system just will not behave.

 

[ju.c]

Use this VBScript to set your folder views:

Folder View Master by MS-MVP Keith Miller
Web: http://members.dodo.net.au/~michaeljenkin/scripts.htm
Download 1: http://members.dodo.net.au/~michaeljenkin/tools/FVM3.zip
Download 2: http://home.mchsi.com/~k.miller79/Scripts/FVM3.zip
Download 3 http://members.home.nl/alsdewiedeweerga/Scripts/FVM3/FVM3.rar

Related:

This is the only free program to modify the Open/Save
Dialog window. (And the only one to do it right)

"FileOpenPatcher enlarges the Windows Open File dialog and
sets Details view as default."

FileOpenPatcher (Scroll down page) 468 KB (Freeware)
Web: http://www.netcult.ch/elmue/ElmueSoft-en.htm
Download 1: ftp://ftp.netcult.ch/mirror/elmue/FileOpenPatcher.zip
Download 2: http://electronix.ch/ptbsync/FileOpenPatcher.zip


ju.c

 

[Waldy]

I tried the script but it crashes. What version of Windows was it written
for?

 

[John Inzer]

Hi there,
I'm on XP Pro SP3 and for some reason, it has decided
that it now wants to display all folders with the Icon view. I have
never selected this view as I prefer to use the Details one. I now
cannot get the folders to open with Details. I have clicked the
Apply to all Folders button, the Reset Folders button, clicked OK,
changed some of the advanced checkboxes to enable the Apply button
and tried closing Explorer, and rebooting but the system just will
not behave.

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Maybe the following links would be worth a look:

(812003) How to modify your folder view
settings or to customize a folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=812003

(813711) Your view settings or customizations
for a folder are lost or incorrect
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813711

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk



--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Waldy]

My VBScript was set to be executed by CScript rather than WScript for some
reason. Once I set it back to use WScript it ran without error. However,
it has made no difference whatsoever to my system.

 

[Waldy]

Thanks for the reply John, but the frst link is just showning you how it is
meant to work and the second link is just increasing the number of window
that you are supposed to be able to customise. Neither article was any help
for me.

 

[Waldy]

The only thing that I can find that may have something to do with this is
the registry keys under

HKEY_LOCAL_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags do not increment
in single steps or start from 1.

ie:

2
4
5
9
10
15
27
28
29

e.t.c.

 

[John Inzer]

Thanks for the reply John, but the frst link is just showning you how
it is meant to work and the second link is just increasing the number
of window that you are supposed to be able to customise. Neither
article was any help for me.

=====================
Sorry...

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Waldy]

This is still driving me mad. Anyone have any ideas how to fix it?

 

[Tim Meddick]

Waldy,
try the following, as this works on any [XP] system that I've
been on:

Close ALL 'Windows Explorer' instances and then open up just one.

Go to the ROOT folder of your system drive (i.e. C:\).

Set it to the views (detailed, tiles, icons, thumbnails, etc) and the
columns that you want to be the default.

Open up the 'Folder Options' control from within 'Windows Explorer' by going
to the 'Tools' item on the top menus and choosing 'Folder Options'.

Under the 'View' tab, checkmark the box labelled 'Remember each folder's
view settings' and then press the bottom 'Apply' button.

Finally, in the same control, press the 'Apply to all folders' button but
NOT the 'Reset all folders' button as well.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.