How can I customize folder detail view ala Win98, column widths, etc?

[Don Taylor]

I don't need background images, I don't need helpful left side panels to
show me the things I can do with files in a folder, I don't even need thumbs.

But I'm groping trying to do what I used to be able to easily do in Win98,
For each folder
specify the detail view,
set the width of the columns,
choose one of the columns to sort on, often not the first column,
AND have WinXP remember this every time I open the folder in the future.

I'm perfectly happy to have every folder in the system be detail view
but the column widths and columns displayed differ from folder to folder.
I've gotten all the folders to be detail view but I cannot find a way to
get it to remember the column widths or the sort criteria.

As a side note,
Is it just me, but is a "Wizard" something that throws me into Notepad
with apparently not a clue of documentation how I should edit this html
template actually a Wizard? Just curious.

One other question, just in case anyone knows,
I'd DEARLY love to see a sample .wsh fragment that would show me how to
delete a filename with wildcards out of the Temporary Internet folder.
Imagine you want to write a script to delete doubleclick cookies from your
Temporary Internet folder, that's it.

Thanks for any help
(email address IS valid, been "dont" on the net since BEFORE there was spam)

[Thorsten Matzner]

(Don Taylor) wrote:

>I'm perfectly happy to have every folder in the system be detail view
>but the column widths and columns displayed differ from folder to folder.
>I've gotten all the folders to be detail view but I cannot find a way to
>get it to remember the column widths or the sort criteria.

Delete the Registry keys
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell \Bags and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell \BagMRU, both with
all the subentries, then create new keys "BagMRU" and "Bags" here. At
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell NoRoam create a new
DWORD entry
BagMRU Size
and set this to
5000
Restart the computer. This may solve the problem.

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[Don Taylor]

Thorsten Matzner > writes:
(Don Taylor) wrote:
>>I've gotten all the folders to be detail view but I cannot find a way to
>>get it to remember the column widths or the sort criteria.

>Delete the Registry keys
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell \Bags and
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell \BagMRU, both with
>all the subentries, then create new keys "BagMRU" and "Bags" here. At
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell NoRoam create a new
>DWORD entry
>BagMRU Size
>and set this to
>5000
>Restart the computer. This may solve the problem.

That looks like it fixed it.
(I assume that was 5000 decimal, not hex, or that it doesn't matter much)
But the column widths and sort criteria seem to be being remembered in
detail view now, at least after my 30 seconds of testing.

Thank you

[Thorsten Matzner]

(Don Taylor) wrote:

>That looks like it fixed it.
>(I assume that was 5000 decimal, not hex, or that it doesn't matter much)
>But the column widths and sort criteria seem to be being remembered in
>detail view now, at least after my 30 seconds of testing.

5000 decimal, of course. The column widths may not be restored in all
cases. If you run into such a situation hold CTRL and press + once on
the numeric keypad.

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