From: Gary Britt 

Had that in Win2K prior to SP3.  Took it out and completely stomped it out
in XP because the file that could be placed in a folder to trigger special
formatting and webviews, etc. could be used as a bomb waiting to explode on
a users system when they opened that folder in Explorer.  All kinds of code
could be caused to run.  So there solution was to kill this feature which
was a nice feature.

Gary

Geo. wrote:
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:467557c4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> The problem is Vista has 5 different folder types. You have to set a
>> default for each type.
>
> You know, after messing with this it's obvious to me there should be a
> control panel applet called "folder templates" so you can
easily modify
> each template to meet your custom requirements. This is silly to do it
> the way they do with no explanation and no interface that shows you the
> different templates. What kind of an idiot makes an OS for clueless
> users then adds a dumbass feature like this with no explanation and no
> interface that shows you the 5 templates? I've been a windows user since
> the beginning and honestly I thought this was a bug.
>
> This is exactly the kind of thing that proves Microsoft has lost focus.
>
> Geo.

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