Changing Folder Types

I find it very annoying that many folders are automatically set to an audio or video or photo folder type, thus changing the organization headings for the folders.

Is there a way to set is to that all folders in a drive just use an "all files" characteristic?

 

Yes. It moves around a bit, 2000/XP/Vista all a little different, but mostly the same.

In Vista:
START/CONTROL PANEL/APPEARANCE AND PERSONALIZATION/FOLDER OPTIONS

 

That's the general setting but what about a specific folder. I too have noticed a few folders with audio or video or photo folder type, this changed the column headings for the folders. I have yet to find how to change a SINGLE folder's type.

Gary

 

Like this?

 

No that's not what we are talking about as all. I can't locate any samples at the moment, but occasionally I will open a folder and the column headings will be Name, Artist, Album, #, Genre as if the folder contained music files. Or it might show Name, Date Taken, Tags, Size, Rating as if the folder contained images of some sort. But this is happening on folders that do not contain images or photos. I am trying to find how to tell Vista what type of folder this REALLY is. Under XP it was pretty easy. OOPS! I just realized it is as easy under Vista. Right click on the folder and Customize tab THERE you can modify the "style" Vista uses to display the folder content list.

The problem was that Vista seemed to make this decision on it's own for a hand full of folders I have opened. I'll search again for a specific case. But now, at least I (and the original poster) know how to remedy this).

Gary

 

Ah! Gotcha. I understand now what you meant.

 

Yes, I am able to change it for individual folders just fine. My quirk is when a new folder is created that I am going to browse files within, and by default vista sets the headers as if though it is an image folder. Would changing the general setting for not remembering folder's view settings do this? I want it so that every single folder in vista shows the basic name, date modified, size headers rather than the pictures-specific or music-specific headers.

In other words, I want to not have to individually have to customize every single folder that I come across or that gets created to have the "all file types" basic headers.

 

Hmm there is an option for setting the type for a folder and for all sub folders. Maybe try going to the topmost folder and setting that to the all files type and clicking the "apply this to all subfolders" option.

Gary

 

I also have this problem.Really annoying thing. vista do this to partitions too

 

I tried that. it changes the folder type but it does not change the headers. it's so annoying. I am talking about XP. does anybody have a solution?

 

My frustration is that sometimes my folders automatically get rearranged. I sort everything by type (Excel - Word - Powerpoint) all together, but they'll just change on their own from time-to-time. I then have to go through every single folder again and click arrange by type. That's annoying because I literally have almost 150 folders that I manage. Can anyone tell me how I can keep this from happening, if there is a way?

 

This is what I do:

1) Reset the folder view setting manually by following the Method TWO (link, for Vista)
2) Increase folder view cache memory to 30000 (5000 is the default number)
3) Close regedit and restart
4) Make changes to the Windows Explorer window (follow Wrapping it Up carefully)
6) After that I backup both the Bags & BagMRU keys, so if Vista forgets my folder view setting again, I won't need to repeat the steps.

Good Luck