From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Drop a few small text files in the directory to fool it?

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Glenn M.
"Geo."  wrote in message
news:46753f28$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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