With a few minutes of folder clicking, you can stop Vista's content sniffing and get the view you prefer in all your folders. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...

"Default view" has multiple meanings when it refers to computers. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary website defines "default" as "a selection automatically used by a computer program in the absence of a ...

Q: Whenever I click on the folder to open a file in Word or Excel, I want the view to default to display the files as Details in alphabetical order. However, for some reason, when I click on the ...

Mark Kline wants to know how to make Windows open all folders in the Details view. Geeeze! You’d think people could just be happy with the defaults Microsoft gives them! Well, since you’re not (and to ...

In Vista and Windows 7, you have to follow these steps for five different folder templates to have all Explorer folders show the details view: General Items, Documents, Pictures, Music, and Videos.

My HTPC has hundreds of ripped DVDs in 5 HDDs. When I want to watch something, locally or on the network, it is very convenient to have the folder's thumbnail view show one large cover of the movie ...

for most folders, i like the "details" view, and i have stuff set up the way i want. but i'd like every folder under the "my pictures" tree to display thumbnails instead of details. is there a way to ...

If you find that your Windows 11/10 forgets Folder View settings or does not remember it and keeps resetting it, you can try this registry modification. The usual way to reset a Folder Type View ...