Re: Explorer views change from saved settings randomly

Adam Sandler;1199907 Wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I'm running 32 bit Vista Home Basic. From Explorer, I have set the
> view for files and folders to details, sorted by type, and in Tools |
> Folder Options | View and clicked on Apply to Folders.
>
> The problem I'm having is every now and again, Explorer decides to
> display it how it it wants... often showing my files in the large icon
> view, and putting the tags, rating, and date taken columns in the
> view... even for exe files... what does date taken have to do with an
> executable?
>
> This is really starting to p!ss me off. Even if I only have one
> explorer window open, and I set up all my preferences and apply that
> to all the folders, sometime in the future, Explorer will change how
> the windows are displayed.
>
> I've never seen this happen on any other MS OS... just Vista!
>
> Any suggestions pertaining to how I can keep Explorer from changing
> the views randomly is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!

Hopefully this helps. Worked for me when I was running Vista

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70...-settings.html


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CrucialHoax

Adam Sandler;1199991 Wrote:
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hopefully this helps. Worked for me when I was running Vista
> > >
> >
> > http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70...r-folder-view-...
> > >
> > > --
> > > CrucialHoax > >
>
> Thanks for the link!!!
>
> I used to have a VB script to change the setting... as as th
> settings
> were stored in the registry in pre-Vista days.
>
> In Vista, my script doesn't work anymore. In Vista if I do a file
> diff on the registry before and after changing the folder view
> settings, there isn't a change. So I have no idea where these
> settings are being written! Ugh.
>
> Thanks again for the link.

No problem :

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CrucialHoax