Hi Andy,

Doing Method Two in this tutorial will set all folder views to be
"Details".

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70...-settings.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Andy Fish;891068 Wrote:
> 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


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