re: Question about 'How do I fix the ''Details'' view in Explorer?' Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at 3:57 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by mike good (1 messages posted) None of the solutions here worked for me, explorer continued to use icon view for all folders where I had not explicitly specified another view. Through trial & error I tracked this down to local computer policy (gpedit.msc), "User Configuration", "Administrative Templates", "Windows Components", "Windows Explorer", "Turn on Classic Shell". When this policy option is "not configured" then "apply to all folders" works! If enabled, "apply to all folders" appears to be ignored, causing frustration. I don't have domain admin privileges, so not sure if there's a similar group policy that could frustrate you the same way--probably. Written in response to: re: Question about 'How do I fix the ''Details'' view in Explorer?' (max bremer: Thursday, May 27, 2004 at 8:59 am) Responses to this message: How to fix "Details" as the default in Windows Explorer XP Pro (Herb Kelly: Wednesday, December 8, 2004 at 11:41 am) All messages in this thread [show all] 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) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum