Change the default folder view

If I understood the question correctly:
- in Windows Explorer, click on "Tools" in the menu bar at the top
- select "Folder Options"
- select the "View" tab
- read carefully and after setting the desired view for a chosen folder, select "Apply to all folders".
There you go, it seems to work for me on Windows XP.
Best regards.

You need to go to folder options and disable "remember the view for each folder."

Then apply the view you want to one folder and they will all be the same.

For Vista users, simply select a folder type:
right-click in a folder, select "Properties", then click on "Customize", and in the first dropdown menu choose the folder type as the template... (5 options).
You can apply the template to all subfolders (even if you have to manually adjust a few among them).
Then click on the "Organize" tab of the folder in question and select "Folder and Search Options", then click on "View", and on "Apply to Folders" ... and finally confirm your choice by clicking "Yes"... (or "No" if you are the comedic or indecisive type).

So 5 options for generalized customization... for the rest do it "manually"...

You set the desired display, list icon or other, then organize, folder and search options, view tab and click on apply to folders. This way all folders of the same type will have the same display. Basically, you do it once for standard folders, once for music folders and once for video type folders. Then all the folders on your PC will have the same display. Tested and functional on Windows 7. ;)

Hello!

Following what megaten says, I'm also fed up with Vista. I have exactly the same issue.

It was easier to manage under XP and Windows 98.

Drae's response, which is a bit dated, is very relevant, but it's a shame to have to go through that when the simplicity of changing the toolbar display without going through Organize/Properties, etc., should be enough on its own.

This does not solve the fact that one cannot apply the modifications made to the main folder's details, like resizing columns, duration, etc., to the subfolders, as Windows suggests.

And that is indeed quite regrettable.

In the same vein...

As for me, I save the emails I want to keep as .eml files in a Mail folder on my hard drive. After changing computers (from XP to Win7), all my .eml emails changed their date to the copy date. I can no longer sort them by date! It's a hassle for archiving... Someone had already reported the problem under Vista, but I never found the workaround. However, I just noticed that if I customize the Mail folder by replacing the "Modified on" date with the "Date" date, it shows the sending or receiving date (the best possible, therefore)!

On the other hand, for folders, for example, "Date" gives the creation date and not the modification date (I haven't tried with other types of files; I think that if Microsoft has set "Modified" as the default instead of "Date," it must be for a good reason... Then again...!!!)

So the question is: is it possible to set the default display for a file type? (in other words, if the folder contains .eml files, then the column display is "Date" instead of "Modified"). Or does anyone know of an application that would allow copying one file property to another, which would enable me to copy the sending/receiving date to the modification date?

Hello for Windows 7
On the folder, "right-click" then properties, customize, music, apply & ok!
In your "type" music folder, customize the details, the display type!
And finally "organize" (top left) drop-down menu "folder and search options" then view & finally "apply to folders"

There you go, now all your "type" music folders will display the details of your style ;-) same procedure for all the other "styles" of Windows

M K

Good evening,

So, I haven't read everything, I'm struggling too since I have an online store, so many image folders and with every folder change, the images would shrink again.

I managed to display the large ones (yes, my eyesight isn't great and I absolutely need the preview, but now I can't see any images at all, I have the impression that all my images, which I spent 4 hours taking photos of yesterday, have been messed up, sniff.

I am in "large icons" but there's no preview, there are both images and folders, everything is in "large icons" but all I see are blue rectangles of the Windows preview, please?
I’ll restart the PC to see if it displays.

Thank you.

try being on your folder list, setting your list as you want and press "ctrl" and hit "x" to close the window

I don’t understand what the manipulation provided by Tigrou is for.

I would just like to apply a folder type, with the display details I want, to all my subfolders.
When I apply a template to all the subfolders, as suggested in the properties of the parent folder, it is not the template I created in this folder that applies, but one of the 5 templates from the Windows list that does not interest me.
Can we not simply add a custom type to this list?

OK and thank you.
I open the "my pictures" folder from my "user" folder.
Below "File Edit View," there is "Organize."
I click on "Organize" then on "Properties."
I have the "Properties for: My Pictures" window, with the tabs "General, Sharing, Security, Location, Previous Versions, Customize."
I've clicked on each of them without finding a solution to the default display problem for the files in the "my pictures" folders.

Hello,

Okay, specifically in the Customize tab, group "What type of folder do you want to use?" > Optimize this folder for > YOUR CHOICE.

And you make your choice, for example Images.

Have a nice day.

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Salut floflo530,
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Thank you Tigrou for the solution, it works even for subfolders, sub-subfolders....

Hello,

Thank you very much drae!

It was really helpful ;)

Hello,
I posted a similar message on February 24, 2010, for which I did not receive a response (Windows Explorer - Default Columns).
This message was not about displaying folders, but about displaying the files contained in the folders?
If I apply Buviz's recommendation (March 18, 2010) for folder display, I then have the same display for the files. For example, I add "dimension" to the file display, click "apply to folders," and I end up with "dimension for the folders," which is not applicable.
Question: Is there a way to have the default display for files?
Subsidiary wish: To know the list of columns applicable to folders and the list of columns applicable to files.

Hello,

Go to the folder where your files are stored, at the root of the folder, and click on Organize > Properties.

See you!

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