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I know people have told me this. And I did something similar in XP. But I
can't set the icons to medium in a folder and then select apply to all fodlers. That option is never available. Going to every folder and doing this is a pain. What changed? There wasn't a problem in XP's setup. Bill |
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Your nameBill Cunningham wrote:
I know people have told me this. And I did something similar in XP. But I can't set the icons to medium in a folder and then select apply to all fodlers. That option is never available. Going to every folder and doing this is a pain. What changed? There wasn't a problem in XP's setup. Bill There are tutorials available for the topic. https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...y-folders.html https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...l-folders.html https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...l-default.html This one is the one I use a lot, but there are likely to be lots of little permutations available, as the tutorials will show. https://www.sevenforums.com/attachme...er_options.jpg The information is recorded in "shell bags" and "bagsMRU", and even back in WinXP, you had to bump up the MRU or Most Recently Used number, to provide sufficient registry entry space, so all the folders could be "remembered". If you visit a folder and find your work is undone, sometimes it's an MRU problem. And in WinXP the MRU cannot be set to infinity. A number around 8000 was about as high as it would go. The other OSes store the registry entries in slightly different places. When it comes to file explorer icon size, icon position, text sorting, columns sorting, "nothing lasts forever". This is why third party tools exist, which record how it is now, and if Windows messes it up, you use the third-party tool to put it back. If a folder has images in it, the folder starts using the Pictures template. If a folder has movies, suddenly it's using column types suited to Movies. While one of the above articles implies you can tame that bad boy, I somehow doubt that Windows will ever really behave for anybody on this topic. For example, maybe you beat C: into shape, plug in a USB drive, and the folders are all messed up. And you're off on another "tidying" adventure. Paul |
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On 6/19/2018 5:44 PM, Paul scribbled: Your nameBill Cunningham wrote: I know people have told me this. And I did something similar in XP. But I can't set the icons to medium in a folder and then select apply to all fodlers. That option is never available. Going to every folder and doing this is a pain. What changed? There wasn't a problem in XP's setup. Bill There are tutorials available for the topic. https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...y-folders.html https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...l-folders.html https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...l-default.html This one is the one I use a lot, but there are likely to be lots of little permutations available, as the tutorials will show. https://www.sevenforums.com/attachme...er_options.jpg The information is recorded in "shell bags" and "bagsMRU", and even back in WinXP, you had to bump up the MRU or Most Recently Used number, to provide sufficient registry entry space, so all the folders could be "remembered". If you visit a folder and find your work is undone, sometimes it's an MRU problem. And in WinXP the MRU cannot be set to infinity. A number around 8000 was about as high as it would go. The other OSes store the registry entries in slightly different places. When it comes to file explorer icon size, icon position, text sorting, columns sorting, "nothing lasts forever". This is why third party tools exist, which record how it is now, and if Windows messes it up, you use the third-party tool to put it back. If a folder has images in it, the folder starts using the Pictures template. If a folder has movies, suddenly it's using column types suited to Movies. While one of the above articles implies you can tame that bad boy, I somehow doubt that Windows will ever really behave for anybody on this topic. For example, maybe you beat C: into shape, plug in a USB drive, and the folders are all messed up. And you're off on another "tidying" adventure. Paul |
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