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.

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Hi,


On the Windows Explorer toolbar, click on View - Choose Details. Uncheck all the details you don't want to show, click OK and exit. Your pop-up details should be gone.


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.
>

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If you want it to appear like they used to in earlier windows versions what I did is go to -View- pull down menu then customize folder, then hit next, next again, and then check the box that says classic icons only. Then click next and then finish and your icons will appear to what they used to be like.


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.
>

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I have the same problem now with music files. Changing the options in view/choose details doesn't work. Anybody know why?


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.
>

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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.
>

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This sounds similar to my problem, but it's the opposite. I WANT to see the dimensions, but there is no way I have found to turn them on. Will a change in the registry let me VIEW the dimensions? If so...what is it, and how do you do it?


On Saturday, November 15, 2003 at 11:09 pm, Justin wrote:
>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.
>

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At the top of Explorer's right pane, right click on any of the category (Detail) names. You'll get a context menu with several of the possible Detail headings listed and "More..." at the bottom. Click on "More..." You now have a dialog box with a scroll window on the left that shows all of the selectable Detail headings; each with a checkbox at the left. From here, check off the headings you want to display for the current folder. Note also the four buttons to the right, near the top. "Hide" and "Show" will uncheck or check the box next to a detail heading. The "Move Up" and "Move Down" buttons allow you to chose the order in which your selected Detail headings display. The topmost heading will display as the leftmost column, followed to the right by the others, in order. Once you have things displayed the way you want, you may not be home free unless you do one more thing. From the Explorer Menu, pick Tools > Folder Options... then pick the View tab. In the Advanced settings: window, scroll down just past halfway and make sure you've got a check in the box next to "Remember each folder's view settings". This will cause XP to "remember" the uniqe settings for up to 400 folders. After all that, you should be good to go.


On Tuesday, February 24, 2004 at 7:32 am, Bruce wrote:
>This sounds similar to my problem, but it's the opposite. I WANT to see the dimensions,
>but there is no way I have found to turn them on. Will a change in the registry let
>me VIEW the dimensions? If so...what is it, and how do you do it?
>
>

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Is there a way to "choose details" for a group of folders? I would like my picture folders to have appropriate details, and my music folders to have different ones, without having to go through and do each one.


On Wednesday, April 21, 2004 at 9:17 am, Fulcrum wrote:
>At the top of Explorer's right pane, right click on any of the category (Detail)
>names. You'll get a context menu with several of the possible Detail headings listed
>and "More..." at the bottom. Click on "More..." You now have a dialog box with
>a scroll window on the left that shows all of the selectable Detail headings; each
>with a checkbox at the left. From here, check off the headings you want to display
>for the current folder. Note also the four buttons to the right, near the top.
>"Hide" and "Show" will uncheck or check the box next to a detail heading. The "Move
>Up" and "Move Down" buttons allow you to chose the order in which your selected Detail
>headings display. The topmost heading will display as the leftmost column, followed
>to the right by the others, in order.
>
>Once you have things displayed the way you want, you may not be home free unless
>you do one more thing. From the Explorer Menu, pick Tools > Folder Options... then
>pick the View tab. In the Advanced settings: window, scroll down just past halfway
>and make sure you've got a check in the box next to "Remember each folder's view
>settings". This will cause XP to "remember" the uniqe settings for up to 400 folders.
>
>
>After all that, you should be good to go.
>
>

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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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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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This worked for me and my friends. Thanks all for your contributions. John

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If one of these tricks doesn't work, keep reading.... ...one of them will. Thank you to those above ^^^^^ for their contributions.


On Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 12:58 pm, John Joseph wrote:
>This worked for me and my friends. Thanks all for your contributions.
>
>John

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One more trick that helped me when trying to get details view as the default on all folders:
>>Set the current folder to details view (and any other options you want)
>>Uncheck the option in Tools|Folder Options|View that says 'Remember each folder's view settings' before using 'Apply to All Folders'. I _think_ that this lets the settings you are trying to 'Apply to All Folders' override any existing settings that are considered 'remembered'. It worked for me... This might not be the right option if you are trying to get different types of details views for different folders, though.

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Bingo!!! Thats what I want to do as well. I've searched all over the web with no luck on finding this. Pretty dumb on MS part as MANY MANY MANY people want a view for their music, movies, pictures, etc and I cannot find a way to make a custom template. Anyone?


On Thursday, May 27, 2004 at 8:59 am, max bremer wrote:
>Is there a way to "choose details" for a group of folders? I would like my picture
>folders to have appropriate details, and my music folders to have different ones,
>without having to go through and do each one.
>
>
>

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