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Customize Folder View system wide
Monday, June 29, 2009 at 7:47 am
Posted by Paul Kruger (21 messages posted)

This was the topic of an old thread over a year ago that was never really resolved because those responding were not understanding the question. Is there a way to edit the registry so Win2K will always open a folder using a pre-determined folder view other than the default large icons. I want every folder to open to the list view but be able to change an individual folder after that. Many of the prior responses had people changing the BagMRU which only relates to how many folder settings Win2K can remember but not to actually set the desired view for all folders at once. It still left one to manually change each folder...I have thousands of folders so that is not a suitable solution. Again seeking a registry hack that will provide that ALL folders will open to a default view setting of my choosing that is other than the normal default. I want default to be list view, arranged by type set for every folder. Thanks for your help!

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One more thing
Monday, June 29, 2009 at 7:53 am
Posted by Paul Kruger (21 messages posted)

Added information: I have tried the reset to default and the "like current folder" option but it does not work to set all folders. I suspect an actual edit to the registry, if one knew where, would be the only solution. Either that is there an .htt file that Win2K uses that could be edited? ( it is the file that holds folder settings in each folder and is just an HTML file with the extension .htt )

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re: One more thing
Friday, July 17, 2009 at 12:38 am
Posted by NigelHH (1324 messages posted)

The BagMRU setting is apparently only for Windows XP. 

I managed to google this:
("windows 2000 like current folder")

http://windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=72088

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re: One more thing
Friday, July 17, 2009 at 12:45 am
Posted by NigelHH (1324 messages posted)

BTW that's for NT. Whether it will work in 2000 I'm not sure...

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