Explorer Shortcut opens in random display list mode

Hi,

I have a shortcut to "Favorites" (as it appears in Explorer). I decided to make a favorite for my most frequently visited locations in explorer. Here's how the properties of it look:



My problem is that every time I click the shortcut (from quicklaunch) I never know how it's going to look. Sometimes it's in Tiles view (my preferred view for the Favorites), and I'd say probably 50% of the time it opens in List view. Is there any way I can force it to always be one view (Tiles view to be specific).

Tiles view :



List view :

Brink said:

Hello ddd,

As a test, see how using the Favorites shortcut in the tutorial below works for you instead. It uses a different way to open it that may work better.

Favorites Shortcut - Create

Hope this helps, :)
Shawn

Thanks Shawn. I've just done that, and so far so good. It's opening in tile mode, but then again so is my original shortcut right now (which btw I created by dragging the Favorites from an explorer view to the desktop and selecting create shortcut here).

I'll need to give it a few sessions (maybe a few days) to be sure it's behaving more reliably

Brink said:

You're welcome. Fingers crossed. :)

Awwwww. I was really hopeful. It lasted 3 whole days of starting up in tile mode everytime (probably 50 times in those 3 days). I've probably clicked on it 20 times today also with tile mode. But just now, I got the undesirable list view back. No apparent logic or rhyme or reason. It just decided.

I must be doing something to cause it. I'd love to know what. No doubt it will remain a mystery.

Oh and yes, I know it's very trivial

Brink said:

If you wanted, you could set a default folder view with tiles for all folders to make it stick (hopefully). You will still be able to change any again how you like afterwards.

Thanks for that, but I only want Favorites to be in tile mode. For everything else I generally want either Details or large icons.

I started this thread hoping that there might be a command line option to explorer with something like /display=tile