Setting Details and Views in widows xp Friday, March 5, 2010 at 2:13 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by kathy quill (1 messages posted) This worked for me with XP Home... Go to Control Panel, Folder Options, View and UNCHECK "Display Simple Folder View in Explorer's Folder List". Select Apply, then close. It hasn't failed yet. On Friday, March 15, 2002 at 12:16 pm, Frank N Stein wrote: >I have a question about Set >Defaults in Explorer: >When I follow these instructions for Win xp Home, they don't work. When I re-open >the folder I have changed, it is back to exactly the same way it was, eg full sized >window and icons, and every other folder is the same. > > Written in response to: Question about 'Set Defaults in Explorer' (Frank N Stein: Friday, March 15, 2002 at 12:16 pm) 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