re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 10:15 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Bov (1 messages posted) I'm on XP SP3 and none of these 'fix it via Windows' works for me. All they do is reset *all* my folders and files to 'view icons' (even all those which I had already manually and painstakingly changed to 'view details'). Is there any Windows *.INI (or other config) file in which we can set the 'view' default to 'details'? If yes, where and which parameter(s) should we change to what - so that 'view details' becomes the default for everything (folders, subfolders, files, etc.)? It's about time Microsoft understood that some of us can read and we don't need pictures to help us do that. Thanks in advance. On Friday, February 13, 2009 at 9:03 am, squonker wrote: >This tip is the gem here - ignore all the other inane stuff in this thread. The key >for me was to grok that "Remember each folder's view settings" is an override and >until you clear that checkbox anything else you do is futile. Thanks santy! > > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (squonker: Friday, February 13, 2009 at 9:03 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Frank N Stein: Fri, Mar 15, 2002, 12:16 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (2nd2None: Fri, Mar 15, 2002, 12:25 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (kirm: Thu, Mar 21, 2002, 12:53 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Rich: Sat, May 25, 2002, 5:08 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Dion: Wed, Jan 13, 2010, 8:42 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (MartinM: Wed, Jan 13, 2010, 3:13 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Mirror Spock: Fri, Sep 6, 2002, 6:30 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Jo: Sun, Sep 22, 2002, 4:24 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Pat Lemmon: Thu, Sep 26, 2002, 2:56 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (ann: Thu, Dec 19, 2002, 9:19 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Dalai: Sat, Jan 18, 2003, 5:36 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (jay: Tue, Jan 21, 2003, 12:44 pm) Answer that works in XP (Why does MSFT think I want to NOT see details: Sat, Feb 1, 2003, 10:45 am) re: Answer that works in XP (Dalai: Mon, Feb 3, 2003, 9:14 am) re: Answer that works in XP (phil: Thu, Mar 6, 2003, 10:04 am) re: Answer that works in XP (Carlos: Sat, Jun 21, 2003, 4:40 am) re: Answer that works in XP (noone: Thu, Mar 13, 2003, 9:10 am) re: Answer that works in XP (Jim Kiely: Sun, Jan 16, 2005, 12:05 pm) re: Answer that works in XP (Amy: Fri, Mar 4, 2005, 8:02 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Santy: Thu, Jun 12, 2003, 12:32 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (marty: Fri, Oct 24, 2003, 7:14 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Jose: Mon, Dec 8, 2003, 7:02 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Mike: Tue, Jan 13, 2004, 7:24 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Norm: Wed, Mar 3, 2004, 1:09 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Arvall Wroten: Wed, Aug 11, 2004, 10:54 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Andertoons: Mon, Nov 29, 2004, 8:03 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Martin Plamondon: Thu, Jan 13, 2005, 8:03 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Arcticboy: Thu, Nov 10, 2005, 10:00 pm) Script to Change multiple folder's view settings! (trumpetlips: Sat, Mar 25, 2006, 2:04 pm) re: Script to Change multiple folder's view settings! (Arcticboy: Thu, Apr 6, 2006, 9:57 pm) re: Script to Change multiple folder's view settings! (Ron: Sun, May 21, 2006, 8:19 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (sine nomine: Sat, Aug 28, 2004, 3:58 pm) Yeah, but...re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (EM: Fri, Mar 25, 2005, 1:49 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Jeff: Mon, Feb 4, 2008, 9:14 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Allerious: Mon, Dec 29, 2008, 12:03 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (c627627: Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 1:44 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (squonker: Fri, Feb 13, 2009, 9:03 am) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Brit in Sweden: Tue, Mar 10, 2009, 12:57 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Bov: Sat, Sep 12, 2009, 10:15 pm) re: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Denise: Wed, May 18, 2011, 7:27 am) Setting Details and Views in widows xp (kathy quill: Fri, Mar 5, 2010, 2:13 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