Patrick said:
Hi all,
am I the only one with this issue? The Games and Contacts folder for
instance. The games and contact folder both start out with the preview
pane enabled. After a while the preview pane in Contacts is gone, just
gone. Enabling it there, enables it in other folders as well so I can't
get it back without enabling the preview pane in other folders as well?
The Games folder all of a sudden switches from large icons to another
setting, details is one I've seen.
Is there a fix out? Or am I the only one having issues like this?
For the rest I'm very happy with my 64bit Vista Ultimate. My 8800GTX
performs pretty nice with 158.18 and as long as I use XP64 nforce4 sata
drivers diskperformance is pretty good.
Patrick
A few things to check for, but yes, there are problems...
- Organise > Folder and Search Options > View > make sure there is a
tick next to "Remember each folder's view settings"
- Vista has the concept of folder templates. You can see and change
which template is used from Organise > Properties > Customise
- If you go to Organise > Folder and Search Options > View and click
"Apply to Folders", the current view is applied to all folders WITH THE
SAME TEMPLATE - not all folders everywhere. This (understandably) seems
to cause some confusion.
- For folders for which a template hasn't been selected, Explorer looks
at the content and tried to choose an appropriate template (Pictures,
Music etc.) This can be disabled by a registry edit suggested to me in
another thread (I've included the quote below)
Having done all that, I have still found that two particular folders
always have the same view. If I change one, the other has changed next
time I open it, even though I haven't selected the option to apply the
view to other folders with the same template. If you want to see more
detail of what has been suggested to me, look for my post "Folder views
randomly changing" on 14/04/07
Registry edit to disable content detection is below. If you delete the
entire "Bags" key to remove any currently saved views, most folders
including Pictures, Videos, Documents, etc. will be reset to "All
Items". If you want them to have their special views back, you'll need
to go into the customisation options and change the template back after
applying the edit.
As for over-zealous content-sniffing (forcing the Pictures template on a
folder), you can kill that with the following regedit. It will override
autosense & set the template for any folder without a saved view as 'All
Items'.
Copy the text between the lines below into notepad & save as a .reg file.
Watch out for line wrap -- [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...\Shell] is all one line,
there is a space between 'Local' and 'Settings'.
--------------------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local
Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell]
"FolderType"="NotSpecified"
