From: "Rich Gauszka" 

The problem is Vista has 5 different folder types. You have to set a
default for each type.


 http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/720912.html
It's got to do with Vista using five folder templates for for all the
folders in windows. If you right click on a folder -> properties ->
customize you can see the templates. I've got it to work 95% of the time by
first choosing a template type (Pictures and Videos for example) for a
folder. The go into the folder, choose what layout you want under the View
menu (Large Icons for example) then applying those settings to ALL folders
set to use the same template by clicking Tools -> Folder Options ->
View -> Apply to Folders.

So now all the folders set to use the Pics an Vids template on my system
should all be showing Large Icons.

You then need to repeat for each of the template types.

It's a bit of a pain but once it's set up it should work OK. I've had
problems with some folders randomly forgetting it's settings or an entire
template forgetting it's settings. But it doesn't happen often.

If that happens or before you attempt to setup all the templates you can
clear ALL your current folder appearance settings by deleting the following
2 registry keys:

{HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classe  s\Local
Settings\Software\Microsoft\Window  s\Shell\BagMRU}

{HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classe  s\Local
Settings\Software\Microsoft\Window  s\Shell\Bags}

Then restart, and all your folder appearance settings will be reset to default.



"Robert Comer"  wrote in
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> >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.
>
> --
> 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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