From: "Geo." 

Thanks it does help but not a whole lot. Here's the annoyance I'm having.

I have a couple of network file servers, I attach to them //ip/share
instead of mapping drives (because mapped drives has it's own problems when
the servers are not available).

Because of that any setting I set for folders on these servers doesn't
stick. They immediately use the default template next time I attach but
depending on what's in the folder at that particular moment determines
which default template they are going to use.

If I knew how the system was determining which default template to use I
could at least understand this seemingly inconsistant behavior and possibly
avoid it.

If there was an off switch I could turn this crap off.

If I wanted one default view for local folders and another for remote due
to speed reasons I can't do that.

See how this gets annoying real quick?

I'm also leary of setting the default templates (I did set one) because I
just know the first service pack is going to reset them all on me and undo
my defaults (been there many times) so what I'm going to do is dig into the
registry and see if I can find an off switch for this insidious little
bastard .

If I were a programmer I'd write a control panel applet 5 colums of
checkboxes to set all of them on one screen, that's really what MS should
have done.

Geo.

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
message news:4675f8d1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> This may help
>
> http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1480933&SiteID=17
> Be aware that the 'Apply to Folders' option only affects folders of the
> same type or template, e.g. 'All Items', 'Documents', 'Pics & Video', etc.
> So if you want to set list view as the default for all the major folder
> types, you need to use 'Apply to Folders' five times, once from each type
> of
> folder.
>
>
>
> That being said, you can force the 'All Items' template on to
> all folders with the following:
>
> Copy the text between the lines below into notepad & save as a .reg file.
> Watch out for line wrap -- [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...\Shell] is all one line,
> there is a space between 'Local' and 'Settings'.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local
> Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell]
> "FolderType"="NotSpecified"
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Merging the .reg file will set the 'All Items' template for any folders
> that
> don't currently have a view saved with a different template.  You can
> clear
> all saved views by deleting the
>
> "HKCU\Software\Classes\Local
> Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags"
>
> key BEFORE merging the .reg file.  If any folders open with a different
> template after clearing the 'Bags' key & merging the .reg file, they most
> likely have a template specified via their desktop.ini file.

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