I have a question about Set Defaults in Explorer:

I think I am confronting a difference in folder behavior between NT4 and W2k, but what I am observing is eratic, so I can't be sure. What I want to do: I'd like to set a systemwide default for folder view --Details-- then override it in some cases--Large icons. When I use the 'Set all folders like this' option, selecting 'Details' it appears to adopt that folder design forevermore and not remember individual folder settings--Large icons--as another switch promises to do. Most of my machines seem to behave this way, but I have some exceptions, but don't understand what I did to create them. I don't remember having this problem with NT4.

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In the same place as where you defined the default folder view?

Tools -> Folder Options - > View (tab)

in the "Advanced Setting" tree widget read down to the option 
"Remember each folder's view setting"
Check this option
Press the Apply or OK button.

Now when you change the view setting in a folder they will be remembered.

Cheers





On Monday, March 11, 2002 at 2:12 pm, Brian Wallen wrote:
>I have a question about Set 
>Defaults in Explorer:

>I think I am confronting a difference in folder behavior between NT4 and W2k, but 
>what I am observing is eratic, so I can't be sure.
>
>What I want to do:  I'd like to set a systemwide default for folder view --Details-- 
>then override it in some cases--Large icons.  When I use the 'Set all folders like 
>this' option, selecting 'Details' it appears to adopt that folder design forevermore 
>and not remember individual folder settings--Large icons--as another switch promises 
>to do.  Most of my machines seem to behave this way, but I have some exceptions, 
>but don't understand what I did to create them.  I don't remember having this problem 
>with NT4.
>

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maybe someone can write a registry hack to set a system wide default. i hate it when i have to spend 2 hours for each of my computers just to make them all behave the same. S "Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great." -Mark Twain


On Monday, March 11, 2002 at 2:12 pm, Brian Wallen wrote:
>I have a question about Set
>Defaults in Explorer:

>I think I am confronting a difference in folder behavior between NT4 and W2k, but
>what I am observing is eratic, so I can't be sure.
>
>What I want to do: I'd like to set a systemwide default for folder view --Details--
>then override it in some cases--Large icons. When I use the 'Set all folders like
>this' option, selecting 'Details' it appears to adopt that folder design forevermore
>and not remember individual folder settings--Large icons--as another switch promises
>to do. Most of my machines seem to behave this way, but I have some exceptions,
>but don't understand what I did to create them. I don't remember having this problem
>with NT4.
>

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In Editor, go to any folder and when you have the view the way you want it; go to tools - folder options and the view tab. That is where you will see the "like current folder" highlighted. If you choose that, it will lock in your show details.


On Friday, May 31, 2002 at 11:26 pm, :) wrote:
>maybe someone can write a registry hack to set a system wide default. i hate it when
>i have to spend 2 hours for each of my computers just to make them all behave the
>same.
>
>S
>
>"Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
>always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can
>become great." -Mark Twain
>
>

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"editor" ? thanks


On Wednesday, August 6, 2003 at 11:55 am, bob wrote:
>In Editor, go to any folder and when you have the view the way you want it; go to
>tools - folder options and the view tab. That is where you will see the "like current
>folder" highlighted. If you choose that, it will lock in your show details.
>
>

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thanks for the info - but what I want (to have folders appearing in the left hand pane whenever I use windows explorer) doesn't work. I can set all folders to use the current view all I like, but when I've closed down windows explorer and opened a new window, I'm back where I started. Any clever bug-fixes for this? I'm bored having to repeatedly reset the view every time I go into explorer... :-(

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If you have a windows key hold that down and "E" at the same time. Some how or another I have managed to get it to remember that I want the folders open and using that key combination works for me. However I cannot get it to do that if I double click "MY Documents" or "My Computer".


On Wednesday, August 25, 2004 at 6:41 am, waspberry wrote:
>thanks for the info - but what I want (to have folders appearing in the left hand
>pane whenever I use windows explorer) doesn't work.
>
>I can set all folders to use the current view all I like, but when I've closed down
>windows explorer and opened a new window, I'm back where I started. Any clever bug-fixes
>for this? I'm bored having to repeatedly reset the view every time I go into explorer...
> :-(

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Thanks for your help. A friend showed me this same thing but I couldn't remember the combination. Thanks again.

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003 at 11:55 am, bob wrote:
In Editor, go to any folder and when you have the view the way you want it; go to tools - folder options and the view tab.

That is where you will see the "like current folder" highlighted. If you choose that, it will lock in your show details.

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Delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags Restart your computer. Next, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell add a DWORD , name it to BagMRUSize with value=000003e8 Then add another one: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam add DWORD BagMRUSize=000003e8 This value gives you 1000 folders view remembered. You can put a lower value for less folders to remember per user. I think the standard value is 258 hex. Restart your computer. After this you will be allowed to change and keep the view of your folders.

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I have been reading this post for help but so far no one seems to quite understand what some of us are looking for. I have used the tweak to allow remembering more folder settings etc and the "typical" way to set folder views but with many hundreds of folders none of those answer the real question. "How to set a system wide default folder view" at one time for ALL folders. Of course allowing over ride view on specific folders after the fact. Does anyone know of a registry hack or a software utility to set all folders to same view?

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Has anyone ever arrived at a solution? What is needed is a registry hack that will set EVERY folder view to a specified view system wide as a default. Then individual folders can be set to a different view thereafter as needed


On Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 8:07 am, Paul wrote:
>I have been reading this post for help but so far no one seems to quite understand
>what some of us are looking for. I have used the tweak to allow remembering more
>folder settings etc and the "typical" way to set folder views but with many hundreds
>of folders none of those answer the real question. "How to set a system wide default
>folder view" at one time for ALL folders. Of course allowing over ride view on specific
>folders after the fact. Does anyone know of a registry hack or a software utility
>to set all folders to same view? ==

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well, i can tell you how to get the dual pane in every single folder. so that the folders will be on the left side and the individual files in that folder will be on the right. this is a permanent fix. open any folder (my computer) go to view folder options file types under registered file types highlite folder click edit select explore set default ok ok to get details in every folder just select details then go to. view details folder options view now don't forget to set your advanced settings click on like current folder apply ok if you want large icons substitute that instead of details. unfortunately i have not figured out how to have details in my documents and large icons in mycomputer and large icons in the control pannel -- without manually changing it every time. if anyone has an answer to that, please post it. i am running windows 98se. thank you!


On Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 1:45 pm, Paul K wrote:
>
>Has anyone ever arrived at a solution? What is needed is a registry hack that will
>set EVERY folder view to a specified view system wide as a default. Then individual
>folders can be set to a different view thereafter as needed
>
>

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Hi Paul:

Is your Win2K an "upgrade" from something else?

I have only ONCE seen the condition where the
selections made with the FOLDER OPTIONS panel
under TOOLS wouldn't make settings that would
"stick" for all folders, and that was on a WinXP
machine that had been upgraded from a battered
Win2K installation.  I never could get it to
work right.

You might double-check that you've taken all these
steps in this order:

1.  Go to MY COMPUTER, TOOLS, FOLDER OPTIONS,
and click on the VIEW tab.

2.  Select RESET ALL FOLDERS, APPLY.

3.  Select RESTORE DEFAULTS, APPLY, OK.

3.  Reboot the computer.

4.  Go back to FOLDER OPTIONS.

5.  On the GENERAL tab, select your favorite
settings, and click APPLY.

6.  On the VIEW tab, click LIKE CURRENT FOLDER,
APPLY, OK.

7.  Reboot the computer.

8.  Go back to FOLDER OPTIONS.

9.  On the VIEW tab, look through the list under
ADVANCED SETTINGS.

10.  Check REMEMBER EACH FOLDER'S VIEW SETTINGS.
Click APPLY, OK.

These steps have always worked for me on all
machines, EXCEPT the upgraded one.  There's one
other thing that these steps won't fix, and that's
the "global" SORT ORDER of windows displayed in
DETAILS view.  If you're having trouble with that,
post again, and we'll walk through that fix.

Jerry

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well, i tried what you said but no luck. i set everything just as you said. now when i go to use a folder: if i open my computer and select large icons, my computer has large icons and so does the control panel and mydocuments. if i change my documents to details only then my computer and the control panel will be shown in details. what i wanted was to have the control pannel and my computer always show up as large icons and mydocuments always show up as details. i guess it's just not possible.

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Hi Ivory:

Well, it's SUPPOSED to work just as you described
your wish, IF the "Remember Each Folder's View
Setting's" option is checked in 
TOOLS > FOLDER OPTIONS > VIEW
but apparently your computer just doesn't want to
do that any more than ONE of my computers doesn't
want to do that.

I'm just curious -- is your Win2K an "upgrade"
from Win9x or WinME? -- Or is it an original, full
Win2K installation from scratch?

Jerry

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no it's windows 98 se the oem version. it's not an upgrade. there must be a registry patch or something that can fix this. i here windows 98 se was not too good at remembering the individual pages. sure would like a fix for this though! if you've got any other ideas, i'ed sure like to here about them. thanks!

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i wonder if you might elaborate on these registry changes a bit? will this work on windows 98 se without side effects? what exactly does this do? does it allow me to have mydocuments show up as details and mycomputer show up as large icons. because right now if i change one folder to large icons and change another to details, i'll have the 2 different folder appearance as long as they remain open but the moment i close the folders, then everything reverts to the last change. if the last folder was changed to large icons everyone becomes large icons. if the last change in anyone folder was to details all of them become details, the next time the folder is opened. i'ed like to keep details in mydocuments and have large icons in mycomputer and the control panel. thanking you for your time! ivory coast


On Monday, September 12, 2005 at 6:25 am, Rula wrote:
>
>Delete
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU
>
>and
>
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags
>
>Restart your computer.
>
>Next, go to
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell
>add a DWORD , name it to BagMRUSize with value=000003e8
>
>Then add another one:
>
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam
>add DWORD BagMRUSize=000003e8
>
>This value gives you 1000 folders view remembered. You can put a lower value for
>less folders to remember per user. I think the standard value is 258 hex.
>
>Restart your computer. After this you will be allowed to change and keep the view
>of your folders.

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the thing is under windows i have 2 FOLDERS CurrentVersion and a folder called ShellNoRoam underneath that is a folder called MUICache. there are no bags. under the MUICache there are several of the following files with lots of #'s behind each: @browselc.dll,@inetcplc.dll,@mscorier.dll,@shdoclc.dll,@vmhelper.dll.LangID, there are several of each and all have a bunch of #'s behind each of them. there is only 1 LangID and no numbers behind it.


On Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 11:53 am, IVORY COAST wrote:
>
>i wonder if you might elaborate on these registry changes a bit? will this work
>on windows 98 se without side effects? what exactly does this do? does it allow
>me to have mydocuments show up as details and mycomputer show up as large icons.
> because right now if i change one folder to large icons and change another to details,
>i'll have the 2 different folder appearance as long as they remain open but the moment
>i close the folders, then everything reverts to the last change. if the last folder
>was changed to large icons everyone becomes large icons. if the last change in
>anyone folder was to details all of them become details, the next time the folder
>is opened. i'ed like to keep details in mydocuments and have large icons in mycomputer
>and the control panel.
>
>thanking you for your time!
>
>ivory coast
>
>

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well, i've had one devil of a time of it, but i finally got it to where i have large icons in mycomputer and in the control panel but details in mydocuments. it's not really permanent. it just remembers what your last setting is. so if the last time you used mydocuments you had it set to details then it will open to details this time. if you set it to large icons then it will open to large icons next time. the settings that you put in my documents will not affect those in mycomputer nor any other folder. first off i took off the folder setting to explorer which means of course i have lost the dual pane. then i opened the registry and went to: Hkey_current_user\software\microsoft\windows\current\version \policies\explorer look in the right pane see if you have NoSaveSettings. if you don't fine. don't do anything. if you do, then set the value to 0. now close the registry. follow all the steps that you said to set the folder options. i set mine to web page and large icons in mycomputer. after you have done this apply and ok reboot the computer. then open the registry go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ExpView in the right pane double click on Settings. this opens up a box. go down to the 6th line and over to the 5th double and delete it and type in 01 and hit enter. now open streams and go to the first row on the 5th double place your cursor to the left of it delete it and type in 04.


On Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 1:11 pm, Jerry wrote:
>Hi Ivory:
>
>Well, it's SUPPOSED to work just as you described
>your wish, IF the "Remember Each Folder's View
>Setting's" option is checked in
>TOOLS > FOLDER OPTIONS > VIEW
>but apparently your computer just doesn't want to
>do that any more than ONE of my computers doesn't
>want to do that.
>
>I'm just curious -- is your Win2K an "upgrade"
>from Win9x or WinME? -- Or is it an original, full
>Win2K installation from scratch?
>
>Jerry
>

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Thanks for the tip, another annoying MS default taken care of. Pictures of folders are pretty much useless


On Wednesday, August 6, 2003 at 11:55 am, bob wrote:
>In Editor, go to any folder and when you have the view the way you want it; go to
>tools - folder options and the view tab. That is where you will see the "like current
>folder" highlighted. If you choose that, it will lock in your show details.
>
>

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well, it worked for awhile but it's back to opening everything with large icons. i give up!


On Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 5:40 am, Bob wrote:
>Thanks for the tip, another annoying MS default taken care of. Pictures of folders
>are pretty much useless
>
>
>

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