Solved Default Folder View Sucks

[anaron]

Ok, this has gotten ridiculous. In XP, I could set my folders view to list and never have an issue. Windows 7 flat refuses to retain that setting. I have searched for days now for a solution to no avail. Surely someone has come up with a solution or registry hack to resolve this problem as it seems to be extremely common and agitating. Any ideas?
Ron

 

[Carolyn]

does this help?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11356-folder-view-apply-all-folders.html

 

[anaron]

No this does not permanently set the default. Reboots, etc. will reset the view to the Microsoft default.

 

[whs]

In the library Properties, you can set it to Documents, Pictures, Videos, etc. But that ia all you can do.

 

[Brink]

Hello Ron,

This should allow you to set a default folder view to all folders in Windows 7.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/41198-folder-view-set-default-all-folders.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[anaron]

Brink, that is exactly what I was looking for. Must have missed it somewhere in the past few days. Half a dozen reboots and everything is still set. Thanks

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome Ron. The one that Carolyn posted is good as well, but was to only set default folder views for specific folder templates instead of all of them.

 

[anaron]

So much for the short lived victory. Got on the computer about noon and all the folders had reset to list detail view instead of the list only I wanted. I know it is not a big deal but I get a little anal when I cannot make the machine do what I want it to. Back to researching this issue along with an Office 2010 issue of Word not holding the currency formats.

 

[fseal]

This issue plauged me in XP as well. It's acutally not changed at all better or worse that I've seen in 7.

Long running windows problem, it only /seems/ to go away for most people after a while because they stop creating new folders as much or at all after their setup has matured and have applied the above fixes once or twice in the past. Then it all seems stable (I'm at that stage with 7 myself now)

Sure would be nice to have a "Set all folders ike this and all NEW folders from now till the end of time unless I manually change them thankyouverymuch" option

 

[anaron]

Amen Junior!!!!! Absolutely ridiculous!

 

[anaron]

Think I found the reason Brink's fix was only temporary. Found a post that recommended checking the box for "remembering each folders view settings". I do remember doing this with past Windows OSs but I do not have such a setting in my Win7 Pro. Have they done away with it or is it missing?

 

[fseal]

I don't see it either now that I look, though It seems to be behaving for me as if that was the setting...

though this imght help or provide a clue...

Changes to the size, view, icon or position of a folder are lost

Basically if you have a LOT of folders, you can overrun the registries limit of being able to remember all the settings of each one. "Note By default, Windows stores the view settings and the customizations for only 400 folders at the same time." The above link will show you how to completely reset everything and expand the size of the number of remembered settings.

[edit] Hmm, in Windows 7 the default is already supposed to be 5000 folders though... I did see some talk about issues relating to upgrading from XP causing that value to not be updated and moved to the new Win7 location though. So the above link may help especially if ou upgraded.[/edit]

 

[anaron]

After closer observation, I find that a reboot does change all my folders from "list" back to "list detail". Only about half of the computer folders are changed but at least I only have to change one folders view to "list" and all the offenders are back in line until the next reboot.