[Whiteninja89]

When I was using vista, it had this annoying tendency to switch its folder settings on me (from details to thumbnail view etc) So When I recently tried windows 7, I thought they would fix this, but apparently not. Is there any way to make it so all folders, from newly created ones, to older ones, are always in detail view? And not have the OS suddenly switch to some other view on me?
For example, I have a folder with a bunch of video files in it. I dont like thumbnails and it was set to detail. But upon deleting all but maybe two or three videos, it suddenly switched to thumbnails on me. I find this very annoying and I just want everything to be in detail view from now on.

[Elvandil]

There isn't a setting for all folders. They are divided up into subtypes according to content. You can define a type and then make a folder that type.

More info on folders here:

http://stevesmithblog.com/blog/keep-...g-folder-view/

[Whiteninja89]

Thanks. I did that registry hack and it seems to work now. Wish I knew about this earlier.

[DaveA]

No hack is needed, all one needs to do is to "Apply to all folders" in the Options pane.

[fairnooks]

all one needs to do is to "Apply to all folders" in the Options pane.

So far so good in my iterations of 7RC. I saw some blurbs that SP2 for Vista was supposed to finally address the folder settings problem. Is that true or is it still about as good as a kick in the head?

[Whiteninja89]

I tried the apply to all folders option on its own but some folders would revert back to other settings. It seems to have stopped doing this though now after the reg hack. This behavior didnt seem to have been been fixed when I tried sp2 on vista but I didnt really use that for too long since I installed win 7 shortly after.