Annoing behavior when viewing folders

From time to time my Windows Vista seems to forget my folders settings
and changes its properties. I like to see ALL my folders like regular
folders, i.e. file name, last modified date, size and type. All of a
sudden some or all of the folders change to 'Image and videos', why the
hell would I want to know when a Word document was captured with my
camera (if this makes any sense)? then I go to options, properties and
reset it on the 'custom' or 'personalization' tab. No matter if I chose
to do it on the parent folder and have it propagated to its children,
one day will come and this setting will be lost.

Sorry my OS is in Spanish but to ilustrate this here you can see a
"Rating" column, commonly used for photographs - this is so silly it
won't let me rate a PDF file!



I am a heavy user of Vista ever since it was launched, I used it at
home and at work and this is one of those most desperating behaviors
which have made me hate this OS.


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fbernaus

Hello Fbernaus,

You can use the download in METHOD TWO of the tutorial below to reset
all folder view settings to have the "Details" view and remember your
setting changes.

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

Hope this helps,
Shawn

fbernaus;1157839 Wrote:
> From time to time my Windows Vista seems to forget my folders settings
> and changes its properties. I like to see ALL my folders like regular
> folders, i.e. file name, last modified date, size and type. All of a
> sudden some or all of the folders change to 'Image and videos', why the
> hell would I want to know when a Word document was captured with my
> camera (if this makes any sense)? then I go to options, properties and
> reset it on the 'custom' or 'personalization' tab. No matter if I chose
> to do it on the parent folder and have it propagated to its children,
> one day will come and this setting will be lost.
>
> Sorry my OS is in Spanish but to ilustrate this here you can see a
> "Rating" column, commonly used for photographs - this is so silly it
> won't let me rate a PDF file!
>
>
>
> I am a heavy user of Vista ever since it was launched, I used it at
> home and at work and this is one of those most desperating behaviors
> which have made me hate this OS.


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Thank you for replying this fast. So I was not wrong believing this was
a problem with Vista, I'll carefully follow your instructions and once
again: thanks!


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fbernaus

You're welcome.

No, you're not wrong. Vista has always had a bit of a issue with
remembering folder view settings properly.

fbernaus;1157882 Wrote:
> Thank you for replying this fast. So I was not wrong believing this was
> a problem with Vista, I'll carefully follow your instructions and once
> again: thanks!


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Brink

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(https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...5-AD617AF3D511)
*There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask
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