Is there a registry hack that enables Win7 to display flat thumbnails?

[reallyscrued]

I just migrated all my XP stuff to Windows 7 (finally) and there's one thing I can't seem to figure out.

In the "My Music" folder of my XP setup, I had all my albums ripped into respective folders with a folder.jpg file in each folder so that when the parent directory is viewed in "thumbnail mode", it displayed flat album art, such as this:

*this is a picture I found on the internet, I don't own any Avril Lavigne CDs...okay maybe one*

In Windows 7 (and even Vista I think), thumbnail view shows up in some stood up file folder with the folder.jpg displayed at an angle, like this:

*also found on the net*

This makes it harder to find the album I'm looking for in a glance. I'm not going to go into how stupid I think this is...I'm sure Microsoft had good reason to change this up, but how can I go back? I know pictures themselves can show up as flat thumbnails in Win7's explorer, is there a way to extend that functionality to folder thumbnails?

I've searched on the internet quite a bit and not turned up a solution; if there really is no way to change this, is there another file explorer that someone can recommend which displays files/folder with flat thumbnails?

 

[ModestGamer]

go into themes and pick classic windows.

 

[Paperlantern]

Yeah i think thats the only way as well.

 

[Merad]

To get the flat view you need to view your music via the music library (actually any library optimized for music, not necessarily the one name "music") then arrange the view by album.