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re: Question about 'How do I fix the ''Details'' view in Explorer?'
Saturday, November 15, 2003 at 11:09 pm
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Posted by Jaryd (7 messages posted)

I feel your pain! I finally found a fix for this annoying problem. You need to go into your registry under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer." Look for the DWord "ClassicShell" - you need to change this value to 0. Hope this helps.

On Saturday, December 7, 2002 at 10:54 am, Althrox wrote:
>All of my directories now show up with "Date picture taken" and "Dimensions". I never
>turned on those details and when I shut them off and choose apply to all folders
>it doesn't take. Also any new folders I create have these view settings. I'd like
>to remove them from all folders as it takes longer for windows to display this extra
>information. Thank you.
>

Written in response to:: Question about 'How do I fix the ''Details'' view in Explorer?' (Althrox: Saturday, December 7, 2002 at 10:54 am)

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re: Question about 'How do I fix the ''Details'' view in Explorer?' (Bruce: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 at 7:32 am)

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Question about 'How do I fix the ''Details'' view in Explorer?' (Althrox: Sat, Dec 7, 2002, 10:54 am)

re: Question about 'How do I fix the ''Details'' view in Explorer?' (Carole B: Sat, Dec 7, 2002, 8:43 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I fix the ''Details'' view in Explorer?' (John M: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 7:15 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I fix the ''Details'' view in Explorer?' (jack : Mon, Jun 23, 2003, 4:54 am)

re: Question about 'How do I fix the ''Details'' view in Explorer?' (Jaryd: Sat, Nov 15, 2003, 11:09 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I fix the ''Details'' view in Explorer?' (Bruce: Tue, Feb 24, 2004, 7:32 am)

re: Question about 'How do I fix the ''Details'' view in Explorer?' (Fulcrum: Wed, Apr 21, 2004, 9:17 am)

re: Question about 'How do I fix the ''Details'' view in Explorer?' (max bremer: Thu, May 27, 2004, 8:59 am)

re: Question about 'How do I fix the ''Details'' view in Explorer?' (mike good: Tue, Jul 13, 2004, 3:57 pm)

How to fix "Details" as the default in Windows Explorer XP Pro (Herb Kelly: Wed, Dec 8, 2004, 11:41 am)

re: How to fix "Details" as the default in Windows Explorer XP Pro (John Joseph: Tue, Feb 22, 2005, 12:58 pm)

re: How to fix "Details" as the default in Windows Explorer XP Pro (Dan: Wed, Apr 6, 2005, 1:29 pm)

re: How to fix "Details" as the default in Windows Explorer XP Pro (Bec: Thu, Apr 21, 2005, 6:05 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I fix the ''Details'' view in Explorer?' (Brad: Wed, Jun 15, 2005, 6:55 pm)

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