Permanently disable "Filmstrip" view?

I am terrified I am doing this wrong. Apologies if I am. I'm a noob.

Silly question. I'm trying to get windows to ACTUALLY save my folder viewing
preference things. I know how to change them, and I've clicked and unclicked
the little checkbox that says it will do this, but it does not seem to be
working. I just want to have a base folder containing other folders (say, My
Pictures in my case) organized by "name," then have all the stuff inside the
subfolders, the actual pictures, grouped by name or modified, but NOT by
type. @_@

Failing this, I'd like to permanently disable the "filmstrip" view. All my
folders default to this (when I make a new folder, or plug in my pen drive)
and it is the most irritating and useless view ever. _ I can navigate well
in any other view, but Filmstrip drives me nuts.

Graaagh. I've looked all over and found nothing, and the website thing says
I've got to pay to get email/phone support, which is just dumb. _ Sorry.

If nobody knows, though, that's cool too. It's not a life or death
problem here, just a very very annoying small thing that I've been constantly
fighting for bloody ever.

Here's the canned description of my script with a link:

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I've written a script that will apply all the view customizations you can
set to all of a folder's
subfolders. Right-click the link below & save to your computer. The zip
file contains a readme
file & the script itself.

http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/FVM3.zip

You can select a folder & configure its view settings, then those are set to
be inherited by all
subfolders (you have the option of saving or wiping out current saved views)
.. You can set a
default for My Pics, another for My Music, and then a more generic default
for My Computer. The
inheritance settings are separate from the folder view itself -- for
example, you can set a
non-grouped view to be the default inheritance for My Computer, then return
My Computer to its
standard 'group by type' layout after running the script without affecting
the default view you have
set.
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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

"Luminance" wrote in message
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I am terrified I am doing this wrong. Apologies if I am. I'm a noob.

Silly question. I'm trying to get windows to ACTUALLY save my folder
viewing
preference things. I know how to change them, and I've clicked and
unclicked
the little checkbox that says it will do this, but it does not seem to be
working. I just want to have a base folder containing other folders (say,
My
Pictures in my case) organized by "name," then have all the stuff inside
the
subfolders, the actual pictures, grouped by name or modified, but NOT by
type. @_@

Failing this, I'd like to permanently disable the "filmstrip" view. All my
folders default to this (when I make a new folder, or plug in my pen
drive)
and it is the most irritating and useless view ever. _ I can navigate
well
in any other view, but Filmstrip drives me nuts.

Graaagh. I've looked all over and found nothing, and the website thing
says
I've got to pay to get email/phone support, which is just dumb. _ Sorry.

If nobody knows, though, that's cool too. It's not a life or death
problem here, just a very very annoying small thing that I've been
constantly
fighting for bloody ever.