From: "Geo." 

Ok so one of the more annoying features of Vista (I believe xp does this as
well) is that if you have a directory with nothing but AVI files in it,
when you look at that directory vista decides it needs to check each and
every avi file to extract an icon and unless you set it different it will
default to large icon view mode.

Well I change it to detail mode but it still insists on going and touching
each video file to extract an icon. Now normally for someone with maybe 10
video files in a directory this would take 10 seconds. But over a gigE
network to a directory with 200 video files this can be most annoying and
wasteful of resources.

How do I turn this stupid feature off? Is there even an off switch?

Another thing is sometimes if flips the default mode back to tile view, for
example if I access the network directory with //ipaddress/share instead of
mapping the drive, then every time I close and open the resource again all
the views are defaulted back to tile mode for directories with nothing but
video files in them. Vista deciding this is really how I wanted to view it
instead of details mode, but it gets worse, if I switch to details mode
it's some funky details mode that has a ratings column, wtf, if there is a
bunch of text files and just a few video files it doesn't do this but if
they are all video files suddenly this ratings column appears? More
computer guessing? I want to turn this stupid thing off as well.

I hate computers that assume stuff like this.

Geo.

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