Question about Vista folder settings

[malG]

When I click on My Documents, I like the view to be large icons. When I click on other folders within My Documents, it's different views (e.g. Details). How do I force all the folders in My documents to be large icons?

Thanks

 

[akugami]

Go to any folder, set it exactly as you wish it to appear, click on the "organize" button. click on "folder and search options" then go to the "view" tab and click "apply to folders" and it'll ask you if you want them to make the folder settings global, select yes or whatever the yes option is.

On a related note, anyone know how to stop Vista from setting its own details in the detail view? I recently posted about this issue on dailytech when Vista was mentioned and was rated down to a -1. Now, not that I care about ratings but no one gave me any information on how to solve my particular problems except to deride me and say the folder settings are pretty much the same as in XP (which they are).

My particular problem is that when opening new folders, it keeps the detail view (which I want). However, sometimes it goes crazy on me and adds detail columns which I do not want. The only details I want to see are, name, size, date modified, type. For instance if I drop a music file or something similar in a folder it'll add columns for name, artist, album, genre, #, and rating. I don't want to see any of those details. I only want name, size, date modified and [file] type.

*BUMP*

Anyone have any answer for my question?

 

[akugami]

*BUMP*

 

[techmanc]

Maybe I am missing something here but if you right click on the columns separator bar cant you select what you want shown for details and its a global setting?

 

[akugami]

Vista will actually change some of the detail columns, removing some and adding others. This is a major annoyance. Sure, the folder views will keep the detail view as a global setting but there seems to be no way to set it so that it only shows certain detail columns and not others. When making new folders for instance and dropping in certain files (such as rar files), Vista will think they're images and show a bunch of useless detail columns which are not relevant, and even for folders with images I don't use details such as rankings.

I've also made folders with mixed files and when I put in new files that may be images, mixed in with text or other document files it'll decide on its own to show different detail columns and going so far as to remove the "date modified" detail column which is one of the major ways I sort files I may be working on. Newer files will always be shown first (or last) in a folder.

 

[techmanc]

Well I use a dual pane file manager so it pretty easy to change the view and details with it.