From: "Geo." 

that's how mine was set.

Geo.

"Rich"  wrote in message news:467597d9{at}w3.nls.net...

  "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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