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Windows (not Internet) Explorer Viewing Options
Windows 7 (x64)
I keep setting my viewing options to List, but they keep reverting back to Details. This seemed okay until I had to reinstall Windows 7 after being hit with a virus. Yes, there are times when I do want Details and even Large Icons. I would like whatever viewing option I set in a particular folder to remain in effect for that folder until I change it, without having the viewing options in a different folder interfering. How do I do that? -- David E. Ross The Crimea is Putin's Sudetenland. The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia. See http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_PutinUkraine.html. |
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 20:05:05 -0800, "David E. Ross"
wrote: Windows 7 (x64) I keep setting my viewing options to List, but they keep reverting back to Details. This seemed okay until I had to reinstall Windows 7 after being hit with a virus. Yes, there are times when I do want Details and even Large Icons. I would like whatever viewing option I set in a particular folder to remain in effect for that folder until I change it, without having the viewing options in a different folder interfering. How do I do that? I thought that capability died with XP, although I haven't dug very deeply to test the limits. -- Char Jackson |
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On 22/12/2014 04:05, David E. Ross wrote:
Windows 7 (x64) I keep setting my viewing options to List, but they keep reverting back to Details. This seemed okay until I had to reinstall Windows 7 after being hit with a virus. Yes, there are times when I do want Details and even Large Icons. I would like whatever viewing option I set in a particular folder to remain in effect for that folder until I change it, without having the viewing options in a different folder interfering. How do I do that? Your shellbag registry keys may be corrupt. Try cleaning them with Shellbag Analyzer from http://privazer.com/download-shellba...ag-cleaner.php or ShellBagsView from http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shell_bags_view.html Of course the obligatory backup and warnings go with mucking about with the registry. |
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Windows (not Internet) Explorer Viewing Options
| I keep setting my viewing options to List, but they keep reverting back
| to Details. The whole thing has never worked properly and Microsoft has never bothered to fix it. I don't know why. In Vista/7, as far as I've been able to figure out, individual settings are ignored. (XP is also broken but if the settings are fixed then individual folders can be controlled. The problem with XP is that Explorer dutifully stores and checks folder preferences, but it doesn't store them correctly in the first place, so when it goes back to read them it ignores its own faulty settings!) You can set a universal setting in Vista/7 by deleting the stored folder data and setting an option for all folders. See he http://www.jsware.net/jsware/nt6fix.php5#folfix |
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 20:05:05 -0800 "David E. Ross"
wrote in article m7859m$hon$1 @news.albasani.net Windows 7 (x64) I keep setting my viewing options to List, but they keep reverting back to Details. I don't know what's different, but under XP the viewing options always seemed to change from folder to folder for no reason and didn't remain constant either. Now, with 7, I find that it *does* remember the settings per folder. I don't know why. I have folders where I want a detailed listing and others where the media-oriented columns are what I want (for audio editing). I'm running 7 Pro if that makes a difference. |
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David E. Ross explained :
Windows 7 (x64) I keep setting my viewing options to List, but they keep reverting back to Details. This seemed okay until I had to reinstall Windows 7 after being hit with a virus. Yes, there are times when I do want Details and even Large Icons. I would like whatever viewing option I set in a particular folder to remain in effect for that folder until I change it, without having the viewing options in a different folder interfering. How do I do that? You can try this fix and see if it works for you. http://www.thewindowsclub.com/window...-view-settings Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! joy -- Zo "I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." -- George McGovern |
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| You can try this fix and see if it works for you.
| | http://www.thewindowsclub.com/window...-view-settings | That fix is to set the number of folders that Explorer can remember, not the remembering itself. |
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Mayayana wrote :
You can try this fix and see if it works for you. http://www.thewindowsclub.com/window...-view-settings That fix is to set the number of folders that Explorer can remember, not the remembering itself. The OP says that he keeps losing his view settings, I thought this solution addressed his problem, at least it's worth a try. -- Zo "You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except Thursday." -- A sign in a Moscow hotel across the street from a Russian Orthodox monastery. |
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| That fix is to set the number of folders that
| Explorer can remember, not the remembering | itself. | | The OP says that he keeps losing his view settings, I thought this | solution addressed his problem, at least it's worth a try. | But why not actually read and understand what the fix does before recommending it? He says the problem happened when he reinstalled, which implies that he hasn't come anywhere close to the limit of Explorer memory for folders. The setting you're talking about *might* very rarely be relevant if people have created a vast number of folders, but it's not a fix for the basic functionality. I mentioned that because this is a common mixup. I think the MRU limit (how many folders Exlporer will allegedly remember) in Win7 is 5,000, as it is in XP SP2. The MRU limit change is widely documented and easy to change, so it's become mistakenly thought of as the fix for folder settings, but it's really a leftover from Win9x, where I think the default MRU limit was something like 256. If you've created 5,000 folders you have bigger problems than folder icon display settings. |
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Mayayana formulated the question :
That fix is to set the number of folders that Explorer can remember, not the remembering itself. The OP says that he keeps losing his view settings, I thought this solution addressed his problem, at least it's worth a try. But why not actually read and understand what the fix does before recommending it? He says the problem happened when he reinstalled, which implies that he hasn't come anywhere close to the limit of Explorer memory for folders. The setting you're talking about *might* very rarely be relevant if people have created a vast number of folders, but it's not a fix for the basic functionality. I mentioned that because this is a common mixup. I think the MRU limit (how many folders Exlporer will allegedly remember) in Win7 is 5,000, as it is in XP SP2. The MRU limit change is widely documented and easy to change, so it's become mistakenly thought of as the fix for folder settings, but it's really a leftover from Win9x, where I think the default MRU limit was something like 256. If you've created 5,000 folders you have bigger problems than folder icon display settings. With all of that said, it still will not hurt to give it a try! ;-) -- Zo Click..Click..Click..darn, out of taglines! |
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On 12/25/2014 7:19 AM, Mayayana wrote:
| That fix is to set the number of folders that | Explorer can remember, not the remembering | itself. | | The OP says that he keeps losing his view settings, I thought this | solution addressed his problem, at least it's worth a try. | But why not actually read and understand what the fix does before recommending it? He says the problem happened when he reinstalled, which implies that he hasn't come anywhere close to the limit of Explorer memory for folders. The setting you're talking about *might* very rarely be relevant if people have created a vast number of folders, but it's not a fix for the basic functionality. I mentioned that because this is a common mixup. I think the MRU limit (how many folders Exlporer will allegedly remember) in Win7 is 5,000, as it is in XP SP2. The MRU limit change is widely documented and easy to change, so it's become mistakenly thought of as the fix for folder settings, but it's really a leftover from Win9x, where I think the default MRU limit was something like 256. If you've created 5,000 folders you have bigger problems than folder icon display settings. Actually, I have over 58,000 folders, most of which were created by the reinstallation of Windows 7 and Office 2007. That number excludes system folders and hidden folders. -- David E. Ross The Crimea is Putin's Sudetenland. The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia. See http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_PutinUkraine.html. |
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| Actually, I have over 58,000 folders, most of which were created by the
| reinstallation of Windows 7 and Office 2007. That number excludes | system folders and hidden folders. | Wow. I knew Win7 was unspeakably bloated, but.... Nevertheless, the MRU limit deals with folders you open. There might be thousands of folders in the winsxs folder, for instance, but if you don't open them they're not listed in the MRU list. That's why I said *created*. Most people don't open more than a handful of Windows system folders, so that still leaves maybe 4,900 created, viewed (and not deleted) data folders before you'd go over the limit. Out of curiosity, I just ran my XP folder view utility on my main system, which has been in use without a restore for at least a year. It told me 1906 folders were adjusted. And I'm a person who rummages around quite a bit. |
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