Right click on your "Documents" folder, and select properties. Move the properties dialog box off to the side. My problem.. I hadn't realized they took away the "remember folder view" option. When I initially get onto a computer eg, company under my user name, or pc's and laptops I'm initially setting up for myself I would open Explorer, then double click on the C drive to show the folders..
I would set the option to "Show full path" "Show all files" and now in win10 keep the "hide merge conflicts" and keep the "Hide empty drives" but not keep "hide extensions". I'm pretty sure it was there in 8 and 8. And yes, even when microsoft started categorizing folders under a "General" "Documents" or "Pictures" type the "remember" option would still have the effect of applying that view and remembering for "that type" of folder and that specific folder if I'd changed it.
Sorely missing those options :. I want to have icons on my desktop and thumbnails on some folders. No matter where I change the "Always show icons, never thumbnails" setting and click "OK" or "Apply" not "Apply to Folders" the setting is applied to all of my folders.
Any ideas on that? Privacy Policy Terms of Service. Jump to Navigation. Search form Search. Navigate to any folder on your C drive. If you have your picture files stored in a Pictures library, you can click that. Once you are viewing a folder, right click an empty space within the File Explorer window and select View from the dialogue menu, then choose Large Icons.
To do so, click the File tab in File Explorer, then click on the "Change folder and search options" option. The Folder Options window will appear. Click the View tab, then look at near the very top for the heading "Folder Views".
Viewing Thumbnails instead of Icons If you are setting the view as Large Icons and you intend to view thumbnails instead of icon placeholders which won't show you a picture preview , then you will also want to ensure that your PC Performance Settings allows for thumbnail views.
The System window will appear; click the Advanced system settings link at the top left of the window. Thanks Vivian. I normally dont reply to things like this due to having to sign up to forums and alike.
But This has been driving me mad. Why would Microsoft set it as default this way. But I tried as Vivian has put it and it works for me. I am simply not interested in what "Genre" my files are.
It's easy enough to hit "details" or "thumbnails" when I want to view the folder differently Another example of "if it aint broke, don't fix it. Personally, I think this little sub-discussion just highlights why Vista is such a pain in the butt. This is a testament to the programmers having more control over how the UI was designed then the UI team.
Vista is not bad, but the UI execution sure leaves a lot to be desired. No matter how complex software is, good User Interfaces should make it intuitive by grouping like-minded activities together or using Wizards to step folks though complex tasks which this has annoyingly turned into. I just installed windows 7. Well i was going to write a big rant, and indeed did, but then i was doing some more research and it seems like i just made everyones day and solved the problem partially. Or well THIS guy did:.
You should see that most have taken on these new settings. This is one of five templates that Windows Explorer uses to display folder contents. The five templates are called in Windows 7 :. When a folder is opened, Windows Explorer examines the contents to see if it can automatically determine which folder template to use to display the folder contents.
If it is not obvious that the folder contents falls into any of the last four templates, then Windows Explorer chooses the General Items template. A fifth step would be: When you open a folder that contains music items but is not automatically displayed using the Music template, you manually select the Music template for that folder. Anyways, sorry that explanation doesnt do it justice. I have spent waaay too much time trying to figure this out already.
Also that link doesnt say how to 1 copy templates are they file or registry based? Its bloody hard to frame this question too.
What can you say about this? EDIT: also i just noticed that neonr already answered this above. Right guys while i was reading this post to try to get the answer and figure out the solution at the same time as i wanted all folders to be viewed the same with list view i managed to figure it out You can then customize each folder the way you would like to. This worked great for me. This thread has 30K views. This should tell MS that they're doing something wrong. For years their model has been to "upgrade" by burying what used to be easy into something else and making you go through more steps and more aggravation to do the simplest things.
No matter how smoothly, more advanced the items are in the background, it's what we work with minute-by-minute that is most apparent and affects us dramatically in accomplishing our tasks. When they make changes to user interfaces they should always give a "classics" option. In the research world when we make changes to a protocol, we always have to identify how it was done in the past and what the changes are. At the very least a road map to changes would be extremely helpful.
But then they don't give you any resources at all, other than the forums, without which I could not function. Forums or other web help sites. I never, ever want to see icons. It is the way my brain works. I want to see detailed lists. Then I can actually find something.
Other people's brains need icons. They can only find things by looking at pictures. There's nothing wrong with folks who have brains that work differently, but we all need to be accommodated. Thanks to this thread, I have now solved this aggravation that I've been annoyed by intermittently for the month I've owned Windows 7. Today I had the time to research and try to resolve. Thank you for the very helpful information and instructions.
I agree. It's way to cumbersome to change all five folder types. I found a different solution here. You have to execute the registry file from " 2. From there on, all folders will be of the "general" type and you only have to change that one. They also mentioned that the folders displayed under "Libraries" can not be changed.
Maybe there is another registry hack for that one. For me it seems like MS didn't go the whole way. Different folder types might be really useful for some people. But they didn't include the obvious features you already stated: 1. Being able to disable Folder Templates. Being able to copy folder templates.
Defining you own folder types maybe based on file extensions. And it should all be customizable from ONE place not in two different places like others mentioned already. OK I add my 2-cent to the "it does not work.
Hit and miss and it is in fact "forgotten. You can try over and over again, documents, general, etc. If someone at Microsoft wants to look at it feel free to contact me and I'll give you web meeting.
But surely getting this many people verifying the "it does not work" can prove the point. I have not tried the above registry fix. Will give that a go but I sure wish they' fix this bug. Also many others; folder size as a column or let the folks that developed software to do this work inside of Windows 7, etc.
Good old WindowsXP developed by Israeli design team related to Intel core7 team in some desert was monumentally good for its time, perhaps ahead of its time. When you can't read, you need Icons, and when can't analyze even Icons you need Pictures or Thumbnails.
If Microsfot fixes problem, I will fix spelling, OK? Well mine stayed fixed still, like 9 months later. Perhaps people that still have an issue did not get all five types of folders. But using the registry fix to set all folders to "unspecified", I would think that this would make them get reset when windows "determines" that they have music files as an example in them.
Like if windows "figures out" that it should change the folder type down the line for some reason, they may change them to be one of the five types. Im just throwing things out there, because the problem has not reoccurred for me as I have said. Anyways I know the folder types work. Yes its a pain to set 5 items manually, but odds are you only have to do it once. There are quite a few worse bugs in windows 7 which MS is not fixing either.
You all know I am sure, how much they love these kinds of eye candy "intelligence" features. At least they still let you set it to "classic" view. I think windows 8 they may take that away, but i forget where I heard that. Let me explain for those Microsoft employees who need extra effort understanding simple matters:. This works for Fixed Drives e. Only people like us know this hack. Blatant disrespect of user's settings. Why is it so monumentally difficult to grasp, dear Microsoft?
Does NOT mean we hurt other customers - they're free to select this feature from rightclick menu and stick with it. GET IT?? You're welcome. As of me, being an Engineer, I will simply ram this problem head on and solve it. I rarely fail. I ran into this problem too.
However I found that if I select an entire hard drive by selecting its icon in Explorer, then right-click and select the "Customize" tab, there's a an option to "Customize this folder for I suspect the problem with removable media is that it will depend on the content of the media which is re-examined every time; for removable devices it would definitely make more sense to be able to qualify this parameter by device rather than by content.
At least the above will work by session. What I did since Microsoft likes to make new OSs that are extremely annoying I went to my computer opened C: drive highlighted all folders, right clicked, then selected "properties", then selected "customize", look for "Optimize this folder for" then select "general items" and then check the box that says "apply to subfolders" That should do it. I got this to work no matter what type of folder it was documents, pictures, etc.
I hope it works for you all! OK I just figured this out, it's easy although certainly not obvious! In "computer view" select the drive with the folders you want to change. Select a folder or group of folders, right click with the mouse, choose "properties" from the drop down menu. Choose the right-hand tab "customize", choose "optimizze for documents", and check the box that says "apply this template to all subfolders" if that is what you wish to do, and hit OK.
Every folder in the directory and sub directories will now display in list view. They would have been smarter to have had list view under "general items" in my opinion. This problem was driving me crazy because on a notebook computer with a small screen, you don't wan't to see the file details all the goddam time esepcially when you want to look through dozens of folders quickly to find something.
The other thing I hate about Win 7 is how it displays folders that contain pictures -- like a little open book with pages sticking out. The XP display was much better, where folder icon was flat and you could see some of the most recent pictures displayed on the icon. One of the terrible things about software designers is their incessant need to justify their salaries by creating new crap whether it's an improvement or not. I wanted all of my sub folders and files inside of my main folder to be in "list"view.
To achieve this I opened up the main folder and pressed the ALT key. From there it is just like using windows XP. A hidden task bar will open up. I remembered something I read about XP having a maximum number of folders for which it will "remember" the custom setting. Digging around found this link:. I have no idea how this will play in Windows 7. From "Organize" drop down menu available below the toolbar , selected "Folder and Search Options". Select "Apply to Folders".
It changed all my folders view to "Tiles". I guess you can try for other as well. Follow this article where five steps are shown to apply the same folder view to all folders and sub-folders in a HDD in Windows OS. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access.
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