From: Robert Comer 

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

Folder Options -> View -> "Always show icons, never thumbnails"?

Just a guess, I never tried it.

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Bob Comer



On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:01:10 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>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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