Go here and download and run this script: FolderSettings

http://www.paulsxp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=155
Give it a try.

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"Andy Fish" <ajfish@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> hi,
>
> every so often, vista decides one of my folders contains pictures or music
> and decides to change how it's displayed.
>
> sometimes I can do View/Customize this folder and select to use the 'all
> items' as a template to put it back. however, now it's just decided my
> root folder (i.e. c:\) contains pictures, but that menu item isn't
> available for the root.
>
> there aren't any pictures in the root, just some folders, autoexec.bat (I
> didn't think we needed that anymore!!), pagefile.sys and all the usual
> stuff.
>
> what I would _really_ like is to configure vista to say I want to treat
> all my folders as normal folders all the time, and always use detail view
> all of the time with no exceptions full stop. I guess that's asking for
> too much so if anyone can help me sort out the C drive that would at least
> be part of the way there
>
> TIA
>
> Andy
>
>