A Windows XP help forum. PCbanter

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » PCbanter forum » Microsoft Windows 7 » Windows 7 Forum
Site Map Home Register Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

Windows (not Internet) Explorer Viewing Options



 
 
Thread Tools Rating: Thread Rating: 2 votes, 5.00 average. Display Modes
  #1  
Old December 22nd 14, 05:05 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
David E. Ross[_2_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,035
Default 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.
Ads
  #2  
Old December 22nd 14, 06:09 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 10,449
Default Windows (not Internet) Explorer Viewing Options

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
  #3  
Old December 22nd 14, 08:31 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Dex[_2_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 64
Default Windows (not Internet) Explorer Viewing Options

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.
  #4  
Old December 22nd 14, 03:08 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 6,438
Default 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


  #5  
Old December 25th 14, 04:54 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Jason
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 878
Default Windows (not Internet) Explorer Viewing Options

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.
  #6  
Old December 25th 14, 03:12 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Zo[_2_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 173
Default Windows (not Internet) Explorer Viewing Options

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
  #7  
Old December 25th 14, 03:34 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 6,438
Default Windows (not Internet) Explorer Viewing Options

| 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.


  #8  
Old December 25th 14, 03:46 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Zo[_2_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 173
Default Windows (not Internet) Explorer Viewing Options

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.
  #9  
Old December 25th 14, 04:19 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 6,438
Default Windows (not Internet) Explorer Viewing Options

| 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.


  #10  
Old December 25th 14, 05:39 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Zo[_2_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 173
Default Windows (not Internet) Explorer Viewing Options

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!
  #11  
Old December 25th 14, 07:14 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
David E. Ross[_2_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,035
Default Windows (not Internet) Explorer Viewing Options

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.
  #12  
Old December 25th 14, 08:39 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 6,438
Default Windows (not Internet) Explorer Viewing Options

| 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.


 




Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off






All times are GMT +1. The time now is 02:11 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 PCbanter.
The comments are property of their posters.