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Cat
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      08-04-2007
I sometimes need to view a folder in 'Details' mode. but each and
every time I do it for a new folder which contains video files,
Explorer shows 'Name, Date Taken, Tags, Size, Rating', while what I
actually need is 'Name, Type, Size, Date modified'. I don't have a
video camera, and I don't make videos, so I won't ever need 'Date
Taken'. Plus I don't use Tags or Rating.

Of course I can manually change columns but it is tedious to do this
each time for new folders. The default view schemes are editable or
are they hard-coded so cannot be changed?

This is not the only reason I need to change the view schemes. For
example, the common Open File Dialog always shows video folders with
'Medium icons' but I need to view them in 'Large icons'. Currently I
manually change view settings for each folder...

 
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      08-04-2007


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>I sometimes need to view a folder in 'Details' mode. but each and
> every time I do it for a new folder which contains video files,
> Explorer shows 'Name, Date Taken, Tags, Size, Rating', while what I
> actually need is 'Name, Type, Size, Date modified'. I don't have a
> video camera, and I don't make videos, so I won't ever need 'Date
> Taken'. Plus I don't use Tags or Rating.
>
> Of course I can manually change columns but it is tedious to do this
> each time for new folders. The default view schemes are editable or
> are they hard-coded so cannot be changed?
>
> This is not the only reason I need to change the view schemes. For
> example, the common Open File Dialog always shows video folders with
> 'Medium icons' but I need to view them in 'Large icons'. Currently I
> manually change view settings for each folder...
>
>

Right click in the column header and choose who and what you want in you
columns from the drop menu.

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PaulB
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      08-04-2007
Right click on the folder, select properties, then customize, then from the
pull-down menu select either all files or documents and check "also apply to
subfolders" if you want that.
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Paul


"Cat" wrote:

> I sometimes need to view a folder in 'Details' mode. but each and
> every time I do it for a new folder which contains video files,
> Explorer shows 'Name, Date Taken, Tags, Size, Rating', while what I
> actually need is 'Name, Type, Size, Date modified'. I don't have a
> video camera, and I don't make videos, so I won't ever need 'Date
> Taken'. Plus I don't use Tags or Rating.
>
> Of course I can manually change columns but it is tedious to do this
> each time for new folders. The default view schemes are editable or
> are they hard-coded so cannot be changed?
>
> This is not the only reason I need to change the view schemes. For
> example, the common Open File Dialog always shows video folders with
> 'Medium icons' but I need to view them in 'Large icons'. Currently I
> manually change view settings for each folder...
>
>

 
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Cat
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      08-04-2007
On Aug 5, 2:26 am, PaulB <Pa...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Right click on the folder, select properties, then customize, then from the
> pull-down menu select either all files or documents and check "also apply to
> subfolders" if you want that.
> --
> Paul
>
> "Cat" wrote:
> > I sometimes need to view a folder in 'Details' mode. but each and
> > every time I do it for a new folder which contains video files,
> > Explorer shows 'Name, Date Taken, Tags, Size, Rating', while what I
> > actually need is 'Name, Type, Size, Date modified'. I don't have a
> > video camera, and I don't make videos, so I won't ever need 'Date
> > Taken'. Plus I don't use Tags or Rating.

>
> > Of course I can manually change columns but it is tedious to do this
> > each time for new folders. The default view schemes are editable or
> > are they hard-coded so cannot be changed?

>
> > This is not the only reason I need to change the view schemes. For
> > example, the common Open File Dialog always shows video folders with
> > 'Medium icons' but I need to view them in 'Large icons'. Currently I
> > manually change view settings for each folder...


Thank you for your answer. But that only means I can apply the 'same'
scheme
to all the sub folders. As you know, Windows chooses different schemes
for
folders with defferent file types. If I do so, this is no longer
applied.

So, basically, there's no way to change the default view schemes that
Windows Explorer chooses for different types of folders?

 
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