Windows folder views are buggy at the best of times, but this one is really annoying me.
I have an external hard drive and Windows XP treats the root as a video folder (the same as "My Videos" for instance). It has the film strip in the bottom right hand corner and "Video Tasks" in the left common tasks plane.
What this means is when I access the drive (my main backup with 1TB of data) it takes forever searching as it thinks it's a video folder. Every folder I open with a large number of files, it spends a minute searching through for videos.
Now, I've looked for a hidden desktop.ini file which is usually present on customized folders - not present. I've gone looking for the "View->Customize this folder" menu, but it doesn't show in root directories.
The only way I can get decent viewing performance is to disable common tasks and go back to classic folders.
Anyone know how to correct this? Is it in the registry somewhere?
I might just leave it on classic folders and use a third party app for files, because Windows has some stupid bugs and features for simple file handling. It's always messing up one of the most basic features of an OS. Don't even get me started on its stupid thumbs.db files it spams all over the place - that's one of the first features I disable and I get sick of removing them from other sources!
I have an external hard drive and Windows XP treats the root as a video folder (the same as "My Videos" for instance). It has the film strip in the bottom right hand corner and "Video Tasks" in the left common tasks plane.
What this means is when I access the drive (my main backup with 1TB of data) it takes forever searching as it thinks it's a video folder. Every folder I open with a large number of files, it spends a minute searching through for videos.
Now, I've looked for a hidden desktop.ini file which is usually present on customized folders - not present. I've gone looking for the "View->Customize this folder" menu, but it doesn't show in root directories.
The only way I can get decent viewing performance is to disable common tasks and go back to classic folders.
Anyone know how to correct this? Is it in the registry somewhere?
I might just leave it on classic folders and use a third party app for files, because Windows has some stupid bugs and features for simple file handling. It's always messing up one of the most basic features of an OS. Don't even get me started on its stupid thumbs.db files it spams all over the place - that's one of the first features I disable and I get sick of removing them from other sources!
Last edited:
Facebook
Twitter