Folders choosing their own details

Just trying to have, from day to day, folders stay in the way I wish them to
stay and not have Vista decide how they should be. They seem only to last as
long as the machine is not turned off or rebooted.

Does anyone have an answer so that folders can stay with the view *I* want
them to have? I get sick and tired of having to add columns back in showing
time and date last used, size and type etc. Thanks.