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Mon, May 18 2009 11:30 AMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

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Does anyone know a way to set Vista to a single view type (eg Details), get it to apply this to all folders AND STICK TO IT?

Philosophically can anyone suggest why MS has such trouble with this?


Roy Lambert
Mon, May 18 2009 1:32 PMPermanent Link

Uli Becker
Roy,

> Does anyone know a way to set Vista to a single view type (eg Details), get it to apply this to all folders AND STICK TO IT?

It should work like it does in XP (I have to translate the German
captions, maybe it's not correct):

Menu Folderoptions | tab "View" | Folder View

and in the same window deselect "Save View for each folder".

On my machine that works.

Regards Uli
Mon, May 18 2009 3:46 PMPermanent Link

Sean
Easily the most annoying bug in Vista. I'd love to know the workaround
to this one too.

Roy Lambert wrote:
> Does anyone know a way to set Vista to a single view type (eg Details), get it to apply this to all folders AND STICK TO IT?
>
> Philosophically can anyone suggest why MS has such trouble with this?
>
>
> Roy Lambert
Mon, May 18 2009 4:55 PMPermanent Link

Ulrich Becker
Sean,

> Easily the most annoying bug in Vista. I'd love to know the workaround
> to this one too.

Hmm... With Vista Home I am not able to reproduce that. The settings I
described above do work for me.

Uli
Mon, May 18 2009 8:29 PMPermanent Link

Sean
On Vista Business, the settings can be set globally but they do not
"Stick" as Roy said. Sometimes you open a folder you have been in dozens
of times and Vista has helpfully changed its view to be for large icons
or some other annoying layout. To make matters worse, just flipping back
to details doesn't always work because Vista also sometimes changes the
information given in the detail view to things that might apply to
photos, for example.

Ulrich Becker wrote:
> Sean,
>
>> Easily the most annoying bug in Vista. I'd love to know the workaround
>> to this one too.
>
> Hmm... With Vista Home I am not able to reproduce that. The settings I
> described above do work for me.
>
> Uli
Tue, May 19 2009 12:32 AMPermanent Link

"David Cornelius"
> Does anyone know a way to set Vista to a single view type (eg
> Details), get it to apply this to all folders AND STICK TO IT?
>
> Philosophically can anyone suggest why MS has such trouble with this?

Windows Explorer is my most disliked feature of Windows Vista.  I liked
the explorer in XP much better, although it could only remember
settings for the last few folders.  To survive in Vista, I actually
purchased a 3rd-party utility called, XYplorer (http://xyplorer.com).
It's inexpensive, solves the problem perfectly, and has all the
features I wished for, even in XP.


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David Cornelius
CorneliusConcepts.com
Tue, May 19 2009 3:02 AMPermanent Link

Uli Becker
David,

> To survive in Vista, I actually
> purchased a 3rd-party utility called, XYplorer (http://xyplorer.com).

Thanks. Sounds good. Just evaluating it. Smile

Uli
Tue, May 19 2009 3:29 AMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

NLH Associates

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David


It looks very impressive, I've downloaded the evaluation version, had a quick shufty and the main thing I can't find is a shortcut to load it and I do Explorer (ir windows-e).

Roy Lambert
Tue, May 19 2009 3:29 AMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

NLH Associates

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Uli

>On my machine that works.

You are incredibly lucky.

Roy Lambert
Tue, May 19 2009 3:29 AMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

NLH Associates

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Sean

>Vista also sometimes changes the
>information given in the detail view to things that might apply to
>photos, for example.

I forgot to mention that one Smiley

I especially like the star rating scheme for glyphs.

Roy Lambert
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