Thanks for this, however, I would like to add what worked for me - no doubt there 
are different versions in solving this annoying time-wasting default setting and 
this is what I did to force "Details" as the default view setting in my XP Pro folder 
settings.

What Mike did worked for me BUT, when in the "Turn on Classic Shell" section the 
option was already selected as "not configured", so I selected the enable tick box 
and then applied. Once I had done that I immediately unselected it by reverting back 
and ticking the "not configured" option box again. This toggling seemed to kick it 
in, where it had not worked before, and FINALLY enabled the "apply to all folders" 
button in the way it was most probably designed to work. 

This has literally taken me years to figure out. Mike, many thanks, you have saved 
me man hours like you can't believe not forgetting the frustration factor. I find 
it totally unacceptable that ms allows this type of thing to happen.

Oh ! - one more thing - you should start like this:-
1)   Click START - left bottom button
2)   Then RUN
3)   Then type in the window that opens   "  gpedit.msc  "  (without the inverted 
commas)

This takes you to the USER CONFIGURATION panel that Mike refers to then follow the 
instructions as given

Good luck and I hope this helps - it worked for me

rgds

Herb







On Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at 3:57 pm, mike good wrote:

>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. 

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